Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.
Practice the concepts - integrate with fractions.
Objective: To practice the concepts.
Activity: Teacher beats out various combinations by clapping. Children write the patterns down in musical notation on music graph paper. Various worksheets: For example, some combining fractions and note values. Directions: Fill in the blanks with notes of proper value by figuring out what the sum of the problem is in 4/4 meter. Figure by using mathematics, answer by using musical notes. Later worksheets could deal with other meters, and more complex notation. Many good music texts contain additional exercises for this concept. Students must constantly keep in mind how many beats in a measure, and what kind of note gets one count.
