Lovely song about math by Wilco frontman's son: Put A Line On It

Attention mothers of mine who teach sixth grade: This is a great song to sing with your students for Friday Song.

14 year old Spencer Tweedy, son of Jeff wrote this parody version of Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" for his algebra class. The song very neatly and cleverly covers a few key math concepts like lines, slopes and digits. And it is fantastically catchy.

Original post with lyrics at Spencer's site [via Xeni via Cassandra Jones]

• [Anonymous]

  How can America have performed worse than 30 other countries on the 2009 PISA while producing this kind of math work? I would like to see Shanghai or Singapore produce math work like this.

• [akputney]

  I didn’t know you had mothers. But this one thanks you, Dean and so will my students!

• [chgoliz]

  Already sent to my 7th grader. She’ll probably send it to everyone on the math team with her.

• [djfunkyslick]

  This was amazing!! I hope a lot of teachers pick this up!