It’s 1984…
It’s on Cassette…
It’s DISCO…
It’s…The Multiplication Tables, Set to different catchy disco-beats!
Does that not rock beyond all rockage? I’m in awe.
http://rapidshare.com/files/67705875/TDcr.rar
http://ylow.blogspot.com/2007/11/tables-disco.html
*A punk slogan of my era.
Disco sucks almost rhymes with Disco Duck, which is from approximately the same era as Howard the Duck which was undoubtedly one of the worst movies ever made.
That said, I’m sure I could have used this when I was, most begrudgingly, memorizing the tables in roughly 1970.
And it could have been set to “25 or 6 to 4” by Chicago, or “ABC,” Jackson 5.
Which would, clearly, beat disco with a stick.
1970! Wow! I’m still working on them, thank goodness I have an HP or I’d never figure out anything.
I’d be worried that you’d memorize them, but the memory would be keyed to your actions while learning them, and you’d have to stop in the supermarket checkout line doing the full Saturday Night Fever & pointing to the sky every time you needed to work something out.
Oh, yes. For me that would be absolutely true. It was years before I could alphabetize anything without starting from A and singing the entire alphabet song in my head.
Yep, High Priestesses are really helpful, if they’re any good at all.
And the problem with that would be . . . ? 
I DO sing the quadratic formula to the tune of “Pop Goes the Weasel” to my college precalculus students. I figure that if nothing else, the weirdness of having their math teacher sing to them may make something stick in memory. 
(cue the music)
x equals negative b
plus or minus the square root
of b squared minus four a c
ALL over two a.
We need little music-note emoticons.
It really is easier to remember words when they are put to a tune, and to remember tunes when they have words. Anything that helps people remember important things is fair game in my book. The only problem is that children nowadays are not being raised knowing “Pop Goes the Weasel”! In recent years I always have some freshmen who claim they don’t know that tune.
Edited to add a protest against the “If Math sucks” in the title. Of course it’s only a hypothetical, and is obviously false.
Indeed. I’m quite adept at singing about 5 particular Japanese adjectives to Beethoven these days,
and there’s a weather ditty which the sensei keeps looking to me to lead, since I’m the only one in class who seems to be able to fit the words properly to the Colonel Bogey March.
Jimmy Buffett says math sucks, that’s good enough for me. He counters the quadratic song(which I still use) with this:
I got so bored with my homework
I turned on the T.V.
The beauty contest winners were all smiling through their teeth
They asked the new Miss America “Hey babe, can you add up all those bucks?”
She looked puzzled then just said, “Math Sucks!”
Math sucks (math sucks)
Math sucks (math sucks)
You don’t even have to spell it, all you have to do is yell it
Math sucks (math sucks)
Math sucks (math sucks)
Sometimes I think that I don’t know that much–But math sucks!
Here you go:
♪♫
cheater 
When I was in first grade, about three years earlier, we had this for addition. I remember, distinctly, Boogie Down And Do the Twos!