One of the best questions that I receive every year from elementary music students is when they ask incredulously, "There are fractions in music?" I love that question! It's so exciting to be able to show students how the disciplines they are learning in the regular classroom can be applied in other areas as well. I love to see the lightbulb come on when they suddenly realize the connection between math and music.  For example, this week we are working on the rhythmic values of the eighth note and sixteenth note in comparison to what they already know about ti-ti's and ti-ri-ti-ri's. 1/2 and 1/4...they get it! They were learning math all along and didn't realize it. Yay for music!