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Lesson Plan

Musical Math

Students love to explore instruments! Add some method to the madness by having students count, add, and subtract when working together to make music.
Grade
First Grade
Subject
Math
Fine arts
Music
View aligned standards
1.OA.C.6

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to solve addition and subtraction problems while identifying common musical instruments.

Introduction

(10 minutes)
  • Put a big pile of musical instruments in the middle of the classroom. Make sure there are multiple numbers of the same instrument.
  • Have students work together to sort instruments into smaller piles of like instruments (e.g. drums with drums and cymbals with cymbals).