Musical Math
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indoor or outdoor programs featuring world music and social emotional learning  -  

Phil and the students play and say their math facts with dum rhythms from around the world.

ASSEMBLIES
– Musical Math –
Phill uses world drum rhythms to teach and reinforce math facts: doubles & doubles + 1, skip counting, and multiplication.

He begins by showing the students how to clap their math facts with drum rhythms from Latin America (Phil offers separate primary and intermediate presentations with appropriate grade-level content).

Using popular Boomwhacker tubes and his Indonesian xylophone, Phil shows how the same fractions of length are used to make music in Indonesia, Mexico, China, Ghana, and the Caribbean!

Finally, Phil gives your teachers and students a free downloadable CD with all of his math facts tracks to practice at home and school.

FAMILY ACTIVITY NIGHTS
– Rhythm and Math Night –

At the Rhythm and Math family night, the kids learn how to make musical instruments with geometric shapes and fractions, and apply their knowledge to build origami poppers and tube drums. (See Phil's YouTube video on how to make an origami popper - bottom right).

Then, they join together to form a giant drum circle featuring rhythms from West Africa, Brazil, Japan, and Indonesia!

IN-CLASS FIELD TRIPS
– West African Grooves –

In-class field trips are usually scheduled for a given grade level. For example, if Phil were to present this for 1st grade, he would start with an assembly for all of your 1st graders, followed by a separate breakout session for each 1st grade class — and best of all, Phil brings enough drums for everyone to participate!

"West African Grooves" engages your kids in a dynamic celebration West African patterns and features hands-on drumming. They begin by learning how to read rhythmic patterns using Unifix cubes, and then perform popular hand drum rhythms from Nigeria, Guinea, and Liberia. Taking it a step further, they learn how to blend rhythm and poetry to create multipart interlocking rhythms, and then finish off with a giant drum circle featuring interactive musical games and activities!

PRICING
Assemblies are $900 for two 45-minute presentations within a 2-hour timeframe. 

Family Activity Nights are $900 for one 2-hour presentation. 

Assembly/Family Night combinations are $200 off—now only $1,600.

In-Class Field Trips are $900 for 3 classes in a 2-hour timeframe. This includes a 35 minute presentation for all students, followed by three 20-minute breakout sessions (one for each class) in which the students play drums, shakers, and boomwhackers.

There is an additional travel charge for schools more than 1 hour from downtown Sacramento, California.

Phil shows how to make an origami popper for the family night.

FREE MATH ACTIVITIES
The following multimedia activities relate to this program:

Unifix Cube Drum Machine

Musical Fraction Bars
Playing Fraction Pies 

Morse Code Music

Pattern Block Rock
Musical Fraction Tubes

 

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