Your classroom will be rockin' during an toe-tapping lesson! Dave Matthews inspires a lesson on proportions as youth listen to a song and predict its length. Lesson materials provide learners with ordered pairs that mark the time slider of the song at its beginning, end, and at exactly one minute. They then strategize on how to build a proportion to calculate the length of the song.

Concepts

distance formula, ordered pairs, ratios

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Review ratios and distance between points prior to the activity
• As an extension, ask pupils to find the location of the slider after playing a given fraction of the song

Classroom Considerations

• When showing the video, be aware the time of the song shows at the bottom and should be hidden from view

Pros

• Includes all necessary information in either a video or image
• Uses music as a motivator in the lesson

Cons

• None

Common Core

7.RP.A.1 7.RP.A.2.a