This week, at our school, it is Math Awareness Day. Our Math Club hosts a couple of score middle-schoolers for a morning of mathematics and fun.
Mathematics and music go together like, er, macaroni and cheese. So I guess it's time I tried to put together a program that combines math and music.
I have some ideas. Tom Lehrer has a song called The New Math (a reference to a project in the Sixties, borrowed from Britain, which sort of derailed mathematics education for a couple of decades) which we can feature. Then, I have a disc by a musician called Tom Jackson, called 88, for the 88 keys of a standard piano keyboard.
Tom Jackson takes the point of view that various phenomena in music illuminate phenomena in mathematics, and vice versa.
Archie
The companion website for the radio program that formerly aired Saturdays 8-10 PM! The program no longer airs, but these posts are a nearly complete record.
No comments:
Post a Comment