Illuminations: Exploring Measurement, Sequences, and Curves with Stringed Instruments

Students will measure lengths on stringed musical instruments, and discuss how the placement of frets on a fretted instrument is determined by a geometric sequence.

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STEAM Topics Resource Audience Grade Level Tags

Math Topics

Measurement & Time

Music, Art, and Language Arts Topics

Musical Instruments

High School, Educator

9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Measurement, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Sequences and Patterns

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Illuminations (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics)

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Illuminations: Fretting

Illuminations (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics)

In the second lesson of this unit, students will use their discoveries from the first lesson to place frets on a fretless instrument.

https://illuminations.nctm.org/Lesson.aspx?id=1947