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Most mathematicians would agree that this is the greatest math love song ever written: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BipvGD-LCjU

This one is perhaps too high level though - even with a bachelor's degree in math, I still don't get a few of the references.

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I was, just last night, having a listen to Sabaton songs. Night Witches, to be specific. You know, those flying Russian women sneaking in under the cover of darkness to smack down the enemy, WWII style. It isn't my "style" of music (AT ALL), but I sing songs from this particular band because the rhythm and lyrics are emotionally huge. So.. yeah.. for teens, in most cases. As soon as we get to modern history studies, I will serve this band on a platter to my own kid. I know what rocks her world, and this is it. My same aged niece would not feel it at 8 or 9 or 10... If this isn't your style of music, then you should probably listen to the lyrics included version 1st and THEN watch the music video only version. They do such an emotionally compelling job with the mixed media (song/video). It isn't B O L O G N ayyy, but...it is. They do music for history. LOL.... Mostly WWI and WWII. but there are some older historic based ones... Crusades? yes.

Night Witches w/ Lyrics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcemHIqmkYI

Night Witches no Lyrics as in no CC, they still sing (different maker because Sabaton made an animated one and I did not care for it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62cu4neGMfQ

Sabaton also, often, explains the historic happenings of their songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKd2_GGtNRw

Crusades:

Lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaTn3oRPtzg

No Lyrics (EXTREMELY different visuals): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtbbIB776ks&list=RDgtbbIB776ks&start_radio=1

The Great War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzWdJRK3UOI&list=RDgtbbIB776ks&index=7

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Bismark, 100 dead men, oh and if you speak Swedish, This one is great! They are a Svensk music band. Most things are in English however. Lion of the North/Lejonet från Norden (Gustavus Adolphus) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4MjBV-3yHE (To add, what a great way to expose that teen or yourself to the Swedish Language! Pop the lyrics into Google translate! https://www.sabaton.net/discography/carolus-rex/lejonet-fran-norden/ Same for their Carolus Rex song.

*While these songs do not always carry dates/names (some do), the carry the emotional impression of the event. That is important (to me at least) and will remain with the listener.

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Sep 4·edited Sep 4

Not a song, but in my math degree there would occasionally be poems (especially limericks) to help remember things. And then there's this one from Simon Singh's "Big Bang", with the obvious tune:

Twinkle, twinkle little star

I don't wonder what you are

For by spectroscopic ken

I know that you're hydrogen

Twinkle, twinkle little star

I don't wonder what you are

(There's a whole sequence of lessons on just how weird science is to unpack there.)

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> This gives us insight into the two warring ideas in education. Educational traditionalism often focuses on teaching small details, but when it overdoes it, students can end up overwhelmed with disconnected, pointless facts. Educational progressivism, on the other hand, sometimes tries to leap straight to the big ideas, but when students don’t have the necessary grounding, those concepts remain abstract and lifeless.

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> A good education understands that big ideas must be stacked on top of a solid foundation of small ones.

That is the best summary of the trad/prog divide I've read so far!

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Looking forward to listening to the recommendations!

I think this site is where I first learned about the Lyrical Science series... it has a lot of songs indexed by topic:

https://www.songsforteaching.com/index.html

This parody is a favorite at our house:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PnKsxokB-Hw

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YES! I keep bringing up how useful this is to people for me as an adult and no one has grasped it yet.

Here’s my playlist: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCFn0TPUM1ftx2LO10CoAZrys03G26NdU&si=DW6nwju3SowUn5xr

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At age 41, I can still precisely sing the ditty my Algebra teacher shared with us a quarter century ago to recall the quadratic formula… Negative B! (Clap clap) plus or minus! (Clap clap clap) the square root of B squared minus 4 A C, all over 2 A! *jazz hands*

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