Posts Tagged ‘music’
May 29, 2024
Summer break begins in California in June, NYC and Europe in July. Here in Melbourne, Australia the Winter Break begins on 29 JUNE.
Here is some fab middle school math for the school break. This is Mathspig’s 2024 playlist. Check out Melbourne Band The Mild West Your Love is Killing Me
USE The Random Number Spinning Wheel link → HERE
Here’s Mathspig’s Play List with links:
1. Angie McMahon, Melb, AUS Pasta
2. Mild West, Victoria Your Love is Killing Me
3. Go Get Mum, Melb, AUS Phone, Key, Wallet
4. Shirley Kovacs, Netherlands Sound of the Underground
5. The Teskey Brothers, Vic Hold Me
6. The Dead South, Canada In Hell I’ll Be in Good Company
7. The Staves, UK The Long Run
8. Maple Glider, Vic Do You
9. Mojo Juju, Melb, AUS Train Along the Hawkesbury
10. Marlon Williams, NZ Hello Miss Lonesome
11. Syzygy, Melb, AUS The Pendulum
12. Vampire Weekend, USA Harmony Hall
Posted in Middle School, random selection, Senior School, Songs | Tagged Angie McMahon, bands, create, Go Get Mum, Maple Glider, Melbourne, music, playlist, random, summer break, The Dead South, The Mild West, The Staves, The Teskey Brothers, Vampire Weekend | Leave a Comment »
October 12, 2022
Eddie Woo is an Aussie Maths teacher who runs his own Youtube Channel. So popular is this channel in October 2015, Woo won the NSW Premier’s Prize for Innovation in Science and Mathematics. This youtube clip won’t tell you where you will use surds, but it does something magical.
It compares surds to different kinds of music to help students understand why mathematicians go crazy over the concept of surds. This clip tells why maths is soooooo special. There is no guesswork or fake information in this maths. Maths must be accurate. And surds demonstrate this point. (Look for the 5 min mark)
Will you use surds in real life?
Maybe. Probably, not. But surds are used in mathematical programs that demand accuracy. eg. engineering skyscrapers, building satellite dishes, and even in video games. But you won’t see them. Like so much mathematics surds will be hidden in some algorithm.
Here are two Examples:
1. The Golden Ratio:
Often written a 1:1.61 the Golden Ratio or Fibonacci Sequence appears in art and nature and has an aesthetic appeal to the eye, but the accurate ratio is:
2. The Quadratic Function
Satellite dishes, headlights, torches, and bridges all designed using the parabolic arc. The parabola is defined by the quadratic function and sometimes solving for x produces an irrational no. namely a surd. Rounding off can introduce inaccuracies that can become more dramatic when scaled up to the sie of, say, a bridge.
3. The Golden Ratio in Music
Mozart arranged his piano sonatas so that the number of bars in the development and recapitulation divided by the number of bars in the exposition would equal approximately 1.618, the Golden Ratio. Find more @ CLASSIC FM.
Back to Mozart.
In the above diagram, C is the sonata’s first movement as a whole, B is the development and recapitulation, and A is the exposition.
And here is Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Major as an example. Can you hear the Golden Ratio. Not really. But it’s there.
Posted in algebra, Middle School, Parabolas, quadratic fn, Real World Math, surds, Year 7 mathspig | Tagged calculations, Eddie Woo, examples, fibonacci, golden ratio, irrational, jazz, Math, Middle school, Mozart, music, Parabola, quadratic, real world, surds | Leave a Comment »
August 7, 2022
The aim of this post is to show middle school math students that MAPPING is used in the REAL WORLD of Synth-Pop Music Video Production.
IT Records on Facebook
Posted in Middle School, Real World Math | Tagged 2D, 3D, infrared, mapping, Maths, matrices, matrix, Middle school, music, sensors, synth-pop, Syzygy, transformation, video, XBox kinect | Leave a Comment »
June 18, 2021
USE The Random Number Spinning Wheel HERE
Here’s Mathspig’s Play List with links:
1. Angie McMahon, Melb, AUS Pasta
2. San Cisco, WAust Skin
3. Go Get Mum, Melb, AUS Phone, Key, Wallet
4. Shirley Kovacs, Netherlands Sound of the Underground
5. The Teskey Brothers, Vic Hold Me
6. The Dead South, Canada In Hell I’ll Be in Good Company
7. The Staves, UK The Long Run
8. Cat Clyde, Canada Mama Said
9. Mojo Juju, Melb, AUS Train Along the Hawkesbury
10. Marlon Williams, NZ Hello Miss Lonesome
11. Syzygy, Melb, AUS The Pendulum
12. Vampire Weekend, USA Harmony Hall
Posted in Middle School, random selection, Senior School, Songs | Tagged Angie McMahon, Cat Clyde, create, Math, music, number, playlist, random, San Cisco, Shirley Kovacs, Steve Jobs, summer, The Dead South, The Staves, The Teskey Brothers, Vampire Weekend | 1 Comment »
November 23, 2020
Eddie Woo is an Aussie Maths teacher who runs his own Youtube Channel. So popular is this channel in October 2015, Woo won the NSW Premier’s Prize for Innovation in Science and Mathematics. This youtube clip won’t tell you where you will use surds, but it does something magical.
It compares surds to different kinds of music to help students understand why mathematicians go crazy over the concept of surds. This clip tells why maths is soooooo special. There is no guesswork or fake information in this maths. Maths must be accurate. And surds demonstrate this point. (Look for the 5 min mark)
Will you use surds in real life?
Maybe. Probably, not. But surds are used in mathematical programs that demand accuracy. eg. engineering skyscrapers, building satellite dishes, and even in video games. But you won’t see them. Like so much mathematics surds will be hidden in some algorithm.
Here are two Examples:
1. The Golden Ratio:
Often written a 1:1.61 the Golden Ratio or Fibonacci Sequence appears in art and nature and has an aesthetic appeal to the eye, but the accurate ratio is:
2. The Quadratic Function
Satellite dishes, headlights, torches, and bridges all designed using the parabolic arc. The parabola is defined by the quadratic function and sometimes solving for x produces an irrational no. namely a surd. Rounding off can introduce inaccuracies that can become more dramatic when scaled up to the sie of, say, a bridge.
Posted in algebra, Middle School, Parabolas, quadratic fn, Real World Math, surds, Year 7 mathspig | Tagged calculations, Eddie Woo, examples, fibonacci, golden ratio, irrational, jazz, lesson, Math, Middle school, music, Parabola, quadratic, real world, surds | Leave a Comment »
October 4, 2020
Are Headbangers Neck Wreckers?……..
Check out the Maths!
The NHS reports that Australian Researchers Declan Patton and Andrew McIntosh, Uni of NSW, have conducted a study into brain and neck injuries of headbangers published in the British Medical Journal.
Concerts included as part of the study included Motörhead, Mötley Crüe, Skid Row, The Hell City Glamours, L.A. Guns, Ozzy Osbourne, Winger, Ratt, Whitesnake, and W.A.S.P.
Here’s Motorhead with a ‘nice’ moshpit.
140 BPM for Ace of Spades. Motorhead BPM range is 91 – 203
The Headbanger Study Concluded:
1. Head movement of more than 75o for an average heavy metal beat will cause head and neck injuries. This movement causes headache and dizziness.
2. Beats above 130 bpm (beats per minute) cause neck injury.
The average headbanging song has a tempo of about 146 beats per minute (bpm).
and according to Mathspig:
3. Being punched up in the mosh pit. Do you need maths for that conclusion?
Researchers recommendations:
1. Reduce range of head and neck movement
2. Headbang to a slower tempo
3. Wear a neck brace. (Isn’t a bad hair cut enough?)
Headbanger Rates Exercise:
How many headbeats per song of 5mins would a headbanger manage for the following song tempos?
Mathspigs excited. Look there is a band called Mutemath!!!!!!!! And here they are:
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Just to show that there is something spookily primitive about headbanging here is Headbanger Baby:
Posted in angles, geometry, Middle School, Rates, Real World Math, Songs, Year 7 mathspig, Year 9 Mathspig | Tagged angles, exercise, geometry, headbanger, health, heavy metal, injuries, interesting, Math, Middle school, mosh pit, Motorhead, music, neck, rates | Leave a Comment »
September 11, 2020
Guitar Gear Finder.
Cool kid plays Stairway to Heaven solo!
Posted in Fractions, Real World Math, units length | Tagged 3/4, calculate, fractions, guitar, Math, Middle school, music, pitch, real, sizes, small, string length, World | Leave a Comment »
August 27, 2020
Here (below) is the fabulous Melbourne group, Syzygy.
Released Today their fabulous album, The Pendulum.
Really. Listen.
Mathspig lervs this music and also the ‘mathsy’ album cover too!!!!
But how much money do musicians earn via streaming services like Spotify?
The following information can be found at Business Insider.
What do you think mathspiggies? Is this fair?
If a group managed 20 million streams, which would be sensational, what would they earn?
Posted in decimals, Decimals, Uncategorized, Year 7 mathspig | Tagged artists, decimal places, earn, examples, how much, Math, Melbourne Group, Middle school, music, Paymet, real, Spotify, streaming, Syzygy, worl | Leave a Comment »
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