Where’s the BEAT? Discovering the Musical Rhythms and Accompanying Mathematical Patterns in Poetry

Year: 1999 Authors: Beverly Finkbeiner Mayhew

Core claim

Poetry’s pulse, rhythm, and repetition can be mapped with pattern blocks to teach language, music, and math together.

Topics

poetry rhythm, symbolic acquisition, pattern blocks, whole-body learning

Domains

patterns, fractions, geometry, music education, children’s literature, language arts

Methods

spoken rhythm, clapping and walking pulse, pattern-block mapping, multi-sensory instruction

Media

pattern blocks, poems, spoken verse, music notation

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