"Miracles can happen when music and learning are brought together.
Music stirs emotion, and emotion has a powerful effect on memory;
children have been singing the 'Alphabet Song' for generations to learn their ABCs.
Students will enjoy the same results singing about math. These lyrics and melodies
can become part of any child's life anywhere - in the classroom, at home, even in the car!"
Harry Guffee

Doggone Math SONG LIST 1.   Subtraction Makes a Difference 2.   Reciprocals 3.   Integers 4.   In All Probability 5.   Add the Opposite 6.   Percent 7.   Decimal Equivalent 8.   180 Degrees 9.   On the Number Line 10. Doggone Math ORDER THIS CD >> Full lyrics included with CD!

Music and Lyrics by Harry Guffee Produced by John Blinn/Austin, Texas

Each of the following songs serves as a lyrical and musical lesson in math.
Song samples are available for every song.  Choose your preferred format by clicking
on the icon to the right of the title.  Windows Media is highly recommended for best quality.
Windows Media (recommended) | mp3 mp3 format | Realaudio (not recommended)

1) SUBTRACTION MAKES A DIFFERENCE mp3 This song demonstrates how to "take the subtrahend from the minuend," reminding us that in both mathematics and life, 41 pounds just won't fit into a 40 pound bag - so take it away! Harry with his canine companions, Johnny and Bu. 2) RECIPROCALS mp3 Did you know that the product and its "multiplicative inverse" is always ONE? Here's a chance to sing it, say it, and use it to enrich your math vocabulary and your life. 3) INTEGERS mp3 A "jumpin" solo improvisation on the saxophone sets the mood for us to learn a definition and some of the properties of positive and negative numbers. 4) IN ALL PROBABILITY mp3 The excitement and primal expression of the fiddle provide the background for learning about outcomes, certainty, possibilities, and odds. 5) ADD THE OPPOSITE mp3 Sometimes life seems to imitate algebra, especially when learning how to subtract negative numbers; it's all in how you look at it. 6) PERCENT mp3 This song uses vocabulary words based on an ancient Latin phrase to connect algorithms used to calculate percent. The timeless beauty in the voice of the saxophone sweetens the lesson. 7) DECIMAL EQUIVALENT mp3 Finding the decimal equivalent of a fraction is easy and fun to do with the help of some hot fiddle licks and the tintinnabulation of the resophonic guitar in this catchy tune. 8) 180 DEGREES mp3 This waltz (played in three-quarter time - get it?) is a lilting ode to our three-sided friends; scalene, equilateral, and isosceles triangles will never look the same to you again. Bu boogies along with Doggone Math 9) ON THE NUMBER LINE mp3 Jump on board for the mathematical and musical ride of your life as the resophonic guitar and fiddle play out the oppositional roles of positive and negative numbers. 10) DOGGONE MATH mp3 Doggone it - the dog really did eat my homework! Celebrate the experience of learning mathematics by singing and barking along with the happy tune; this canine canon; this puppy pop classic.