Why is it that students can remember lyrics to songs and not basic math? A teacher in Toledo, OH found a way to connect the two. She noticed a large percent of the students in her class were not remembering basic skills math so she decided to come up with a fun new way to engage the students using rap songs. She creating a program called “Smart Shorties” which “is a music-based math program that takes popular rap songs and changes the lyrics to help kids memorize their math rules.” Since the students had to write the lyrics, they had to know the process. As a result the more times they wrote the song lyrics down about math and shared it with the class, the more the students internalized math skills. She has seen her class gone from 0 percent passing on the state test to 48 percent.
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