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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Patterns

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore simple patterns.  In this mathematical thinking geometry lesson, students repeat clapping and snapping patterns, and determine what comes next in sound and movement patterns.  Students recite "Hey, Diddle,...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Counting by Tens

For Teachers K Standards
With this daily counting activity, your kindergartners will master counting in sequence automatically from 0 to 100, and will count in multiples of ten to 100. With the whole class, count to 100. With each number, learners will whisper...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Counting Circles II

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Fill those extra ten minutes of math time with this fun counting activity. Given a short sequence of numbers, young mathematicians stand in a circle and count one-by-one until the last number is reached, at which point the whole group...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rhythm and Counting

For Teachers K
Students repeat patterns while listening to music. In this patterning lesson, students listen to a pattern on a tape of music and reproduce it by clapping or stamping their feet. They listen to stories about famous composers.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Classroom Idea: Clap Along

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students study patterns. In this math lesson, students repeat a pattern that has been clapped out by the teacher. Actions can be added to increase difficulty level.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Music Math: Create a Clapping Symphony (Plus Fraction Math)

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students read simple music to create a symphony of clapping (all grades). Plus fraction math for grades 5-up. They explain how musical notes relate to fractions and identify a variety of musical notes for example, whole, half, and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Clap, Pat, Click

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice the art of skip counting to help them find the answer to problems involving equal groups. They are encouraged to make the link between "whisper" counting with body percussion and solving multiplication facts.
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Curated OER

Rhythm, Math, Rhythm

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars play instruments in math class to learn the interconnectedness between math and music. For this math lesson, students subdivide a piece of music, clapping rhythms and charting rhythm patterns in the song. A guided...
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Gfletchy

The Clapper

For Students 6th Standards
Give a round of applause for completing the task. Scholars watch a video that shows an extremely fast clapper and a timer. The activity requires applying concepts of rates and proportional reasoning to estimate the number of claps in one...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Patterned Leaf Cloths

For Teachers K
Students identify and reproduce simple patterns (e.g., red blocks alternating with blue blocks; clap-clap-stamp) and create and extend simple patterns using a variety of materials or actions (e.g., popsicle sticks, pebbles, stickers,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

K-2: Dino-Rhythms

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read rhythm notation and combine four-beat rhythms. In this rhythms lesson, 2nd graders read quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rests in rhythms that are written on dinosaur shapes. They clap, snap, or stamp out the...
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Lesson Plan
Education Closet

Equal Rhythms

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Engage young mathematicians in learning about fractions with this cross-curricular math and music lesson. After listening to and repeating different beat patterns, children realize that musical notes are just another way of representing...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Adventure Into The World of Shapes

For Teachers K - 4th
Students view Elmer Holtzrichter's work Mystery Planet and discuss basic shapes and patterns. They create their own collage. and discuss the patterning they created. Students demonstrate how this pattern would sound with clapping and...
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PPT
Curated OER

Music and Math

For Teachers K - 1st
Young students are exposed to four types of musical notes - whole, quarter, half, and eighth. They practice clapping along with the notes on each slide. A little bit of math is mixed in with the music, in that each slide shows a pie that...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rhythmic Multiples

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice multiples of the numbers 1-9 and different manipulative skills such as clapping and snapping.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Counting Syllables in Words

For Students K - 2nd
In this counting syllables activity, students look at, say and clap the name of 10 Christmas pictures. Students count each part and write the number of parts on the lines provided.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Do I Measure Up? (Intermediate)

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders compare the relationship between meter in music and measurement in math. They practice sightreading music by determining the number of beats per measure, clapping and counting the rhythm.
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Lesson Plan
Silver Burdett Ginn

Study Buddies Skip-Counting Patterns

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Two Study Buddies worksheets can be found through this link. In the first, math minors count flowers by 1s, and then again by 2s. They answer a few related questions. In the second, they are instructed to work with a partner and clap out...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tony Bennett: With Special Guests The Backstreet Boys - Lesson 2

For Teachers K - 4th
Students clap four-beat rhythm patterns containing whole, half, dotted half, quarter, and eighth notes and rests in a given tempo. They clap the tempo as their teacher holds up flash cards.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Manu's Song

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observed the following pattern: snap, clap, snap, clap....Join my pattern when you know how it goes. After the all the students can follow the pattern ask them if they can use counters (2 colors) to show the pattern. Ask...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Blind Man's Bluff

For Teachers K - 1st
Students count to five. They use two blindfolds and a bean bag. One child is blindfolded. The other children sit close together in a circle on the floor. Spin the blindfolded person around three times, then release. The children clap...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Math: Musical Patterns

For Teachers K
Students employ their five senses to interpret and duplicate instrumental patterns. Following the teacher's patterns, students clap their hands and later use instruments such as bells, triangles, or cymbals to create their own "songs."
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rhythm is Math

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify rhythms in counting activities. In this counting instructional activity, students use clap rhythms to verbally practice skip counting. Students skip count by 2's and 3's.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Hop To It!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students determine patterns. In this mathematics lesson, students act out a skit, play a sequence game, and complete patterns. Students use problems solving skills.

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