Guess what? After many, many months of working on mapping out memory work and designing Cycle Memory Books, we finally have some new content to release. Geometry songs are now posted on our Math songs page! (You must be an All-Access subscriber to play the songs.) Many of these songs have been set to familiar tunes, so they should be easy to learn. We also finished our "Skip Counting" series with a song for the cubed numbers through 1000.
I'm especially excited about our songs that correspond with specific shapes. Not only do they describe the properties of each shape, but they also include how to find the area/perimeter of each shape within the same song. Some of the songs include additional information as well, such as how triangles are classified or the value of pi. As with all of our songs, I have posted lyric videos with visuals to accompany each song. However, the songs can also be streamed directly through the Music Player. I've posted our "All About Squares" song as a sample at the bottome of this post
Below is an overview of the content in each new song. Happy Fall, Y'all!
Volume is the amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional object such as a sphere, cube, cylinder, pyramid, and cone. (Cycle 1 & 3, Week M)
Area is the amount of space taken up by a two-dimensional (flat) surface. Perimeter is the length of the boundary around a two-dimensional shape. (Cycle 1 & 3, Week N)
Properties of a Square: a quadrilateral with opposite sides parallel, four right angles (90°), four equal sides, and four vertices. The area of a square is length of its side squared (s²). To find the perimeter, add all the sides or multiply 4 times the length of one side. (Cycle 1 & 3, Weeks O-P)
Properties of a Rectangle: a quadrilateral with opposite sides parallel, opposite sides are equal, and four right (90°) angles. The area of a rectangle is length times width. To find the perimeter of a rectangle, "add all the sides." (Cycle 1 & 3, Weeks Q & R)
Properties of a Triangle. A triangle has three sides, three angles, and three vertices. The sum of all internal angles is always equal to 180°. Triangles can be classified by their angles or their sides. Equilateral= 3 equal sides; Isosceles=2 equal sides; Scalene = no equal sides; Acute= all angles are less than 90°; Obtuse= one angle is greater than 90°; Right = one angle is equal to 90°. The area of a triangle is half of the base times the height. To find the perimeter of a triangle, "add all sides." (Cycle 1 & 3, Week S-U)
All about Circles. The radius of a circle is the distance from the center to any edge. Diameter is the distance across a circle through the center point. Diameter is always equal to 2 times the radius (D=2r). Circumference of a circle is the distance around the edge.
Circumference of a circle is 2πr (2 x pi x radius). The area of a circle is πr2 (pi x the radius squared). The value of pi (π) is 3.14159. (Cycle 1 & 3, Weeks V-X)
Cubed numbers through 1000.
1, 8, 27, 64, 125, 216, 343, 512, 729, 1000 (Cycle 1-4, Week K)
Sample "All About Squares" available on YouTube or with the sample songs on our site!
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