Geometric Shapes that Sing and Move: An Interdisciplinary Lesson with Pre-service Teachers

Our work shares a practical example of an interdisciplinary lesson in which two teacher educators collaborated to integrate mathematics and music in an elementary mathematics methods course. This paper describes the process of collaboration in designing the lesson and shares original instructional resources to be used in the classroom. We also discuss what the pre-service teachers participating in the lesson shared about their learning experience, and what we, the teacher educators, learned from this experience. In presenting this work, we aim to promote the opening of spaces in teacher preparation programs that allow pre-service teachers to develop their own instructional resources, while seeking opportunities to create interdisciplinary instruction in their own classrooms.