Summary: Cross Curricular Teaching

The thing of math is that you can find it intertwined into other subjects such as music and art. It has been stated that cross curricular teaching is a great opportunity to increase students' motivation for learning and their level of engagement. For most students mathematics is one of the hardest subjects in school to master. Teaching is sculpting one's thought and action through giving instructions and/or performing practices that lead to new conduct and capacity. Sometimes students just need a little inspiration to see the bigger picture in math. One way for teachers to do this is imbedding math with music and art.
When one thinks of art they don’t necessarily think that math can be tied into it. However if you take a closer look one can find math in art. In the second grade geometry standards talks about students ability to name and describe the defining attributes of categories of two-dimensional shapes. If a student is working on a lesson in math learning the

Music can also be a resource tool used by teachers to present and design math problems in non-routine ways. Many of your songs that you hear can be linked to math. For example math skills like matching and comparing can be done through changes in pitch, volume and tempo. If you learning patterning and ordering in math, you can look at a songs repetitions of melodies, rhythms and lyrics. Students can also use their 2nd grade common core standard on measure and estimating lengths in standard units by measuring an instruments length to determine its. Students can then apply what they learned about bar graphs to graph the difference between the different instruments. This would align with the standards of mathematical practice of modeling with mathematics (applying mathematics they know to solve problems) and use of appropriate tools (have to know which tools they need to use to solve