Some kids love it, others hate it, but everyone has to learn it. Math! But the subject doesn’t have to remain within the walls of a school. This series outlines ways you can bring math alive every day, at dinner, watching TV or running errands , in fun and engaging ways.

Just “keeping time” as we listen to music is a critical beginning, Following the beat surprisingly becomes a path into the mathematics that strongly helps to organize musical time. Working with our interactive computer music program, Impromptu, proportional numbers representing time values become a compositional medium for joining music and math, where students are actually hearing the math happening.