“The Sound of Music.” For Year 8, Year 9, Year 10 and Year 11 students. Level 4, 5 What to do. For students. 1. You can work with a friend as a team of two. 2. You may need a map or an atlas. However there are places on the internet which provide maps. Try GoogleEarth. 3. Do the tasks and enter your answers in your maths book. 4. When you have finished all 10 tasks check your answers with your Teacher. 5. Each task has some road clues which give you some ideas and information about the problem. 6. Each task has some maths clues which will give you mathematical ideas to solve the problem with. 7. You task is to find the answer to the problem proposed. Some are hard and some are easy! You may need to do research to find the answer. 8. There are 11 tasks in this race. 9. The codes are easy transformation codes. Just rearrange the letters! 10. When you finish and have checked your answers look where you are on the table. Are you brilliant? Or maybe need to do the trip again and improve your result! 11. There are four Maths Week Trips available this year. Some have very tricky trippy questions! 12. Good luck !
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“The Sound of Music.”
For Year 8, Year 9, Year 10 and Year 11 students. Level 4, 5 What to do. For students. 1. You can work with a friend as a team of two. 2. You may need a map or an atlas.
However there are places on the internet which provide maps. Try GoogleEarth.
3. Do the tasks and enter your answers in your maths book. 4. When you have finished all 10 tasks check your answers with your Teacher. 5. Each task has some road clues which give you some ideas
and information about the problem. 6. Each task has some maths clues which will give you
mathematical ideas to solve the problem with. 7. You task is to find the answer to the problem proposed.
Some are hard and some are easy! You may need to do research to find the answer.
8. There are 11 tasks in this race. 9. The codes are easy transformation codes. Just rearrange the letters! 10. When you finish and have checked your answers look
where you are on the table. Are you brilliant? Or maybe need to do the trip again and improve your result!
11. There are four Maths Week Trips available this year. Some
have very tricky trippy questions! 12. Good luck !
Without doubt this is the most famous movie musical of all time. It was made in 1965 and your parents and grand-parents will know it well. Almost every Christmas time throughout the world it is shown on television. The Sound of Music is also a very popular stage show. It is produced all over the world by schools and amateur groups. Maybe you school has produced it. There are hundreds of Sound of Music productions recorded on YouTube. Have a look! The best production is the movie. This is where the tasks for our “trip” come from today. In particular the songs from The Sound of Music.
The hills are alive with the sound of music With songs they have sung for a thousand years. The hills fill my heart with the sound of music My heart wants to sing every song it hears. My heart wants to beat like the wings Of the birds that rise from the lake to the trees, My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies from a church on a breeze, To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls Over stones on its way To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray. I go to the hills when my heart is lonely, I know I will hear what I've heard before. My heart will be blessed with the sound of music and I'll sing once more.
The Sound of Music. Task One. The hills are alive ! Here is the famous opening sequence. Breath-taking filming, snow covered mountains and Maria, a happy novice nun, singing the title song… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AePRD1Ud3Lw
Maths clues.
I V K F Y O R X L U Z F H G I R Z Z A Y B
In which country are these ‘hills’ ? (a) Austria (b) France (c) Switzerland (d) Italy Write your answer into your maths book. We check your answer at the end of the trip!
The nuns at the Abbey are not happy with Maria. How do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you catch a cloud and pin it down? How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
Maths clues.
Road clues.
The city in jumbled letters!
A B G L U R S Z In which city is the Abbey ?
Write your answer into your maths book. We check your answer at the end of the trip!
She climbs a tree And scrapes her knee Her dress has got a tear She waltzs on her way to mass And whistles on the stair And underneath her wimple She has curlers in her hair! I've even heard her singing in the abbey She's always late for chapel, But her penitence is real She's always late for everything Except for every meal I hate to have to say it but I very firmly feel Maria's not an asset to the abbey
I have confidence in sunshine I have confidence in rain I have confidence that spring will come again Besides which you see I have confidence in me
Task Three. I have confidence in me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzs0oUUFWmM
The Reverend Mother Superior suggests that Maria leave the nunnery before she finally decides to become a cloistered nun. She then arranges that Maria takes a job as a nanny for a family in Salzburg. “Perhaps if you go out into the world for a time …”
Maths clues.
Road clues.
Maria is to take care of a family of a fine and brave retired officer of the German Imperial Navy. His wife died several years ago and he has had trouble finding a suitable nanny who his children will like. The code is a transposition type code. No key is given. B z o s z h m u n m S q z o o
What is the name of the retired Captain ? Write your answer into your maths book. We check your answer at the end of the trip!
The Captain summons the children to parade for Maria. He seems ferocious and expects his children to march around the grounds breathing deeply and behaving themselves at all times. He introduces them to Maria using a whistle sound which when sounded they must step a pace forward and announce their names.
Maths clues.
Road clues.
The children line up in order of their age. Liesl is the eldest and is at one end. Gretl is the youngest and is at the other end. Brigitta stands between Friedrich and Marta. Friedrich stands between Liesl and Brigitta. Kurt stands between Louisa and Marta. Simplify 3(a + b) – a + 2c + d – 2(a + c) – 3b
Who stands in the middle? (a) Brigitta (b) Friedrich (c) Louisa (d) Kurt
Write your answer into your maths book. We check your answer at the end of the trip!
Task Five. My favourite things… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGABqdbtQnA
A big storm blows. There is lightning and thunder. The younger children become frightened and jump into Maria’s bed. She takes their attention by singing this song about her favourite things. The other children hear it and come to Maria’s room.
Maths clues.
Road clues.
7 + 7 ÷ 7 + 7 – 1
1 How many favourite things are there? (a) 8 (b) 10 (c) 14 (d) 15 Write your answer into your maths book. We check your answer at the end of the trip!
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things. Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings These are a few of my favorite things. Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes Silver white winters that melt into springs These are a few of my favorite things.
Task Six. I am sixteen, going on seventeen … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcj4boVT4fc
Liesl has a boy-friend and his name is Rolf. She sees him when he delivers telegrams to the house on his cycle. Thunder, lightning and rain forces them into the shelter of the gazebo outside in the garden where they sing and dance in a magical sequence. The song is a show stopper and the dancing is spectacular. Unfortunately when filming Liesl fell and damaged her ankle. This is not shown in the movie….
Maths clues.
Road clues.
3³ - 3² - 3º
How old is Liesl’s boy-friend Rolf ?? (a) 15 (b) 16 (c) 17 (d) 18
Write your answer into your maths book. We check your answer at the end of the trip!
(Liesl): I am sixteen, going on seventeen. I know that I'm naive. Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet, and willingly I believe. I am sixteen, going on seventeen, innocent as a rose... Totally unprepared am I, to face a world of men. Timid and shy and scared am I, of things beyond my kin. I need someone older and wiser telling me what to do…
Task Seven. Do Re Mi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLm07s8fnzM
Maria decides to teach the children to sing. This she thinks is a good positive challenge for them to learn before the Captain comes back from his trip to Vienna.
Maths clues.
Road clues.
10º + 100º
Which note gives ‘a drink with jam and bread’ ?
(a) So (b) Do (c) La (d) Ti
Write your answer into your maths book. We check your answer at the end of the trip!
Maria: Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. When you read you begin with Gretl: ABC! Maria: When you sing you begin with Do Re Mi Children: Do Re Mi Maria: Do Re Mi, The first three notes just happen to be, Do Re Mi Children: Do Re Mi Maria: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti, ok I'll make it easier for you, Do, a deer, a female deer Re, a drop of golden sun Mi, a name, I call myself Fa, a long long way to run So, a needle pulling thread La, a note to follow So …
Task Eight. So long, farewell, auf weidersehen, good-bye. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxjwb5cXTI0
When the Captain arrives back from his Vienna trip he decides to have a dinner party for all his friends. Maria organizes the children to sing a bed-time song for the guests. They are becoming very competent singers!
Maths clues.
Road clues.
How old is Brigitta ?
(a) 9 (b) 10 (c) 12 (d) 15
Write your answer into your maths book. We check your answer at the end of the trip!
There's a sad sort of clanging From the clock in the hall And the bells in the steeple, too And up in the nursery An absurd little bird Is popping out to say cuckoo Regretfully they tell us But firmly they compel us To say goodbye To you So long, farewell, Auf wiedersehen, goodnight …
Brigitta stands between Kurt and Louisa. Kurt is 11 years old. Louisa is 13 years old. Liesl is 16 years old. Friedrich is 14 years old. Marta is almost 7 years old. Gretl is 5 years old.
Task Nine. The lonely goatherd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaD9Ozdthg8
Maria and the children put on a show for the Captain. It is a highlight of the movie and shows off the children’s new singing talent as well as their handling of the marionettes.
Maths clues.
Road clues.
Think of a number. Multiply it by 4. Add 12 to your answer. Now divide your total by 4. Take away the number you first thought of. What have you got?
What is the name of the lonely goatherd ? (a) Leo (b) Leon (c) Lenny (d) Lennart
High on a hill was a lonely goatherd Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo Loud was the voice of the lonely goatherd Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo Folks in a town that was quite remote heard Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo Lusty and clear from the goatherd's throat heard Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo O ho lay dee odl lee o, o ho lay dee odl ay O ho lay dee odl lee o, lay dee odl lee o lay
Maria teaches the children a beautiful song which has become very popular in Austria and all around the world. It is about a flower found in the mountains of Austria, is protected and illegal to pick. The song has become one of the best loved songs of the writers of The Sound of Music. In the scene the Captain reunites with his family and with Liesl, sings Edelweiss to them.
Maths clues.
Road clues.
The writers of The Sound of Music were Rogers and Hammerstein. They created several famous musical shows in the 1940’s and 1950’s. The Sound of Music was the last show they wrote together. In fact the song Edelweiss was the last song they wrote.
M H D S R Q D L L Z G (7 + 6 x 5 – 4 x 3) ÷ (1 x 2 + 3)
Who wrote the words to ‘Edelweiss’ ? (a) Richard Rogers (b) Oscar Hammerstein
Edelweiss, Edelweiss Every morning you greet me Small and white, clean and bright You look happy to meet me Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow Bloom and grow forever Edelweiss, Edelweiss1 Bless my homeland forever Bless my homeland forever Read more: The Sound Of Music - Edelweiss (The Captain) Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Task Eleven. Climb every mountain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoCPuhhE6dw&index=18&list=PLJSNCsPAYvkNNNJjnhouNofaonprHO1fj
Maria asks the Reverend Mother Superior for advice. Should she marry Captain von Trapp or should she return to be a nun at the Abbey. It is a turning point in her life. The Reverend Mother turns to window of the Abbey and sings one of the most inspiring songs Rogers and Hammerstein ever wrote. It is a difficult song to sing but it is the highlight of the play and the movie.
Task Thirteen. How high is the mountain “Dent de Burgin” ?
Road clues
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(a) Go find a mountain to climb. And after that find another mountain. (b) Go tramping in the mountains, cross streams, sing, and enjoy nature. (c) Stop worrying. Find something useful to do. (d) These walls were not built to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live.
What is the Reverend Mother really saying to Maria ? (a) (b) (c) (d)
Climb every mountain, Search high and low, Follow every byway, Every path you know. Climb every mountain, Ford every stream, Follow every rainbow, 'Till you find your dream. A dream that will need All the love you can give, Every day of your life For as long as you live. Climb every mountain, Ford every stream, Follow every rainbow, Till you find your dream A dream that will need All the love you can give, Every day of your life, For as long as you live. Climb every mountain, Ford every stream, Follow every rainbow, Till you find your dream.
Twelve. The Sound of Music continues. Things to find out … Did Maria decide to leave the Abbey? Does Maria marry the Captain? Do the children get to sing at the festival? Do they sing as a family at the festival? Will the Captain agree to orders to join the German Naval Force? Can the Captain escape from Austria? How do the Captain, Maria and the children escape from Austria? What becomes of the Von Trapp family? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqCP8FAimI
Road clues.
The whole movie The Sound of Music can be purchased on DVD for a low cost. The BluRay DVD version is quite outstanding and is recommended. It too can be purchased at a low cost. A version of The Sound of Music is usually shown at Christmas time each year. A very good school production of The Sound of Music is found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1IZ1QbCqFM The school is on the east coast of the U.S.A. and their performance is quite outstanding! The play is 2 hours 39 minutes long.
This is the finish! You have finished! Now check your answers with your Teacher. 10 or 11 correct. Excellent! Awesome! 9 correct. Very good! Well done! 8 correct Pretty good! Amazing. 7 correct Good! Pleasing. 6 correct OK! Try it again! 5 correct Could be better! Try again! ˂ 5 correct The Sound of Music is not for you.
