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Sound Groups for Teaching Multiplication
This educational video and accompanying worksheet is a listening activity that doubles as a vehicle for teaching early multiplication skills while honing musical skills.
Students watch the video and listen to rhythmic patterns played on various untuned percussion instruments. For each example, they identify which graphic notation sample matches what they hear. They cut and paste the correct pattern onto their worksheet (below) and identify both the number of groups and the number of sounds in each group. This is a unique way to reinforce the ability to differentiate between groups, and items within groups.
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACAMUM080
Develop aural skills by exploring and imitating sounds, pitch and rhythm patterns using voice, movement and body percussion
- ACAMUM084
Develop aural skills by exploring, imitating and recognising elements of music including dynamics, pitch and rhythm patternsElaborationssinging learnt pitch and rhythm patterns and varying elements of music within them to create different effects, fo...
- ACELY1666
Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend studentsâ own and others' ideas in discussionsElaborationsusing spoken language for problem solving, and exploring ideas and concepts (Skills: Literacy, Critical an...
- ACMNA031
Recognise and represent multiplication as repeated addition, groups and arrays
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