Rhythm, Rhyme, Results

Follow them at #pidaymagic !

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:57:34 -0500

Follow them at #pidaymagic !

Math Blogs - Pi Day & more!

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:13:36 -0500

While researching for Pi Day, we came across some great math blogs that we thought we’d share with you. All of these blogs help promote learning math in a fun and creative way, so stop by for some great references and resources:

Wild About Math
Ramblings of a Math Mom
Planet Math
Let’s Play Math!
The Math Mojo Chronicles
Homeschool Math Blog
Math-Blog.com
DreamBox Learning
Tanya Khovanova Math Blog
Kids Math Blog
Learn with Math Games
LazyMaths.com

Absolutely adorable! Do you have a video we should see? Send it...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:22:50 -0500

Absolutely adorable!

Do you have a video we should see? Send it our way!

Pi Day Resources - 3.14

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:59:39 -0500

You already know that we’re celebrating Pi Day this year with our Pi Day Collection, and we found some great sites that we thought you should check out:

Pi Across America
Celebrating Pi Day 2010 on Squidoo(really great collection of Pi sites)
PiDay.org
Pi on YouTube
Pi Day Challenge
Pi Day at Education World

Lots of creative ideas for celebrating Pi Day. Have fun!

Pi Day Collection (March 14, 2010 or 3.14)

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:44:00 -0500

Pi Day is March 14th! At RRR, we know that math and music go hand-in-hand, and celebrating with our Pi Day collection is a fun and creative new way to teach!

Covering three topics related to pi, our songs help bring a unique approach to the classroom that will help your students understand and internalize these math concepts.

Our math songs will have your students recalling math formulas with ease:

When you’re measuring a cube you can’t measure it wrong
‘Cause every single little side of it is equally long
So to calculate the volume it’s pretty simple, you see?
Take any side of it and raise it to the power of three

You’ll also get worksheets, games, a crossword puzzle, a resource guide for online activities and the state standards specifically tailored to support this bundle. Integrate some of these songs and activities into your math lesson plans and you’ll see the results right away!

For more information, please visit our Pi Day Collection Page.

We love when teachers use our music! Do you have something to...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:22:46 -0500

We love when teachers use our music! Do you have something to share with us? Please let us know!

RRR welcomes Taunia Soderquist to the team

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:15:07 -0500

We’re happy to announce that Taunia Soderquist has joined the RRR team to help manage our customer support and social media relationships.

As a professional musician and educator, she’s excited to be working directly with teachers and students in a musically creative environment. In fact, you can hear Taunia’s vocals on one of our most popular recordings, “Figurative Language .”

Feel free to leave a comment and say hello to the newest RRR team member!

mattlehrer: How to levitate by standing next to a wet spot on...

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:15:32 -0500

mattlehrer:

How to levitate by standing next to a wet spot on the sidewalk

Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy [via] song: Unstoppable by...

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:54:00 -0500

Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy [via]

song: Unstoppable by Santigold

Work with Us!

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:37:00 -0500

Want to work for an innovative educational media company? Do you understand the Web and feel extremely comfortable with computers and popular online services? Want to provide routine customer support to our growing customer base and interact with them on our website and social media channels?

We’re hiring!

College/graduate students, freelancers, part-timers, and others with 2 hours/day to work from their home/cafe/etc. should take a look.

Rhythm, Rhyme, Results (“triple R”) is an educational media company that specializes in producing educational rap music for middle school students. The company won two 2009 Parents’ Choice Awards and received top marks from Common Sense Media, and has been featured on NPR, YouTube, the New York Times online, and more. Fans range from rural Texas to suburban Illinois to urban New York, and all points between.

"… We woke with the birds into soft-spoken words That will lead you right into my arms The..."

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:56:00 -0500

“… We woke with the birds into soft-spoken words
That will lead you right into my arms
The perfect equation like mx + b
Equals why we are probably apart…”

- Break Up to Make Up by Jeremih

Nice use of slope-intercept form in an R&B jam, Jeremih.

Record Tripping A turntablist-inspired puzzle game that samples...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:42:17 -0500

Record Tripping

A turntablist-inspired puzzle game that samples Alice in Wonderland and music by Gorillaz, Beck, Death Cab for Cutie, and Spoon. Requires a mouse with a scroll wheel. [via]

jacob: BallDroppings (via travors). Seriously awesome, and make...

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:29:46 -0500

jacob:

BallDroppings (via travors). Seriously awesome, and make sure your sound is on.

Students might enjoy playing the physics (and sound) with this one.

Our weekly website traffic patterns are pretty consistent....

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:41:00 -0500

Our weekly website traffic patterns are pretty consistent. I’d love to see similar data on foot traffic for different types of retail stores.

(The lowest weekly point is Saturday, and the big dip is during holiday break, when, apparently, no one searches the Web for educational stuff.)

Believing you can be smarter can actually make you smarter.

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:39:19 -0500

ohyeahfacts:

SCIENCE!

(source)

DJ Econ - “Demand and Supply” [HD] A student wrote...

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:20:00 -0500

DJ Econ - “Demand and Supply” [HD]

A student wrote to use a few months ago requesting an instrumental version of our song “Demand, Supply” so he could make this project for school. Nice work, Darren!

Life and Music Alan Watts presents an animated video explaining...

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:44:50 -0500

Life and Music

Alan Watts presents an animated video explaining that education should be a process, not a destination.

After 10 Years, Federal Money for Technology in Education - NYTimes.com

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:33:54 -0500

After 10 Years, Federal Money for Technology in Education - NYTimes.com:

To build support for the project, the group created three prototypes: an educational video game for biology students called Immune Attack; a game for museums, called Discovering Babylon; and a computer simulation to train firefighters in high-rise fires. They typify the projects the center will be looking to finance.

General Larry Platt: A closer look

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:20:00 -0500

General Larry Platt: A closer look:

Wondering who Mr. “Pants on the Ground” is from those American Idol Atlanta promos? He was a crusader for civil rights there! [via]

Related: here’s our civil rights song.

"At night, I can text or watch something on YouTube until I fall asleep,” Francisco Sepulveda, 14,..."

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:43:48 -0500

““At night, I can text or watch something on YouTube until I fall asleep,” Francisco Sepulveda, 14, said of his smart phone.”

- If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online - NYTimes.com

Slowly but surely, schools will understand that they need to engage with students on their terms—especially with music, videos, and games.