Have you ever heard, "Everything in math is a pattern," and wondered why? Enjoy this introduction to how patterns form the building blocks of mathematics, music, and dance.

Moving Through Math integrates grades pre-K through 5 math instruction with music and dance. This video will give you a beginning peek into the process of integrating geometry with creative movement. The process is more involved than what you see in this video - but you will definitely get a feel for arts integrated math instruction!

Local news story on elementary math education. See how students and teachers alike respond to integrating music and movement with math instruction!

3rd, 4th, and 5th grade teachers at the 2013 Mississippi Whole Schools Institute integrate mathematics instruction with music and dance. No more rote memorizing multiplication and division facts! Moving Through Math guides students to develop deep conceptual understandings of math concepts -- aligning perfectly with the Common Core Standards and Practices for mathematics.

Common Core Math Practices 7 and 8 encourage educators to "Look for and Make use of Structure" and "Extend Regularity and Repeated Reasoning." I would express this more simply as, "Find the Patterns" or "Figure out how the Underlying Systems" of mathematics work! Sometimes educators think that pattern concepts are limited to asking students, "What comes next in this pattern?" But there is so much more! Repeating Patterns show clear representations of equal groups -- and children must understand equal groups to master repeated addition, skip counting, coin concepts, place value, multiplication, and much more! In Moving Through Math, children see, hear, and feel how "Everything in Math is a Pattern!"