A student teacher that I had many years ago taught the quadratic formula to my class by song and it was a hit. I have students coming back to my class and telling me they remembered the QUADRATIC FORMULA because we sang it in class. I just used this recently. It is a great time for the class. Of course I sing it. More importantly, I have many of my students sing it. (sometimes I give out extra credit) Let's try it now.
Hum Pop Goes the Weasel to yourself...
Hum it one more time...
Now put these word to it...
X equals negative b
plus or minus the square root
of b squared minus 4 a c
all over two a
I found someone else did it to on you tube. Check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo6GJv4Nvx8
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