Students ready understanding of and interest in the context of songs and music can be utilised to motivate all grade levels to learn probability and statistics. Content areas include generating descriptive statistics, conducting hypothesis tests, analysing song lyrics for specific terms as well as big picture themes, exploring music as a data analysis tool, and exploring probability as a compositional tool.
Musical examples span several genres, time periods, countries and cultures.
Exploring Simpson's Paradox. The Roles of Representation in School Mathematics , pp. To support NCTM's newest process standard, the potential of multiple representations for teaching repertoire is explored through a real-world phenomenon for which full understanding is elusive using only the most common representation. Connections to and implications for research and teaching are discussed. Mathematics students and teachers with even minimal musicianship can enjoy mathematical connections and motivations involving existing popular songs, raps or new words for existing songs.