期刊名称：Studies in Design Education Craft & Technology
出版年度：1981
卷号：13
期号：2
语种：English
出版社：Studies in Design Education Craft & Technology
摘要：design group were set a minor project brief which required them to consider the design of an aid for the teaching of literacy and numeracy to children in the P rimary age range. A number of interesting projects began to develop and one of these by a girl pupil (Wendy Allen) was particularly interesting as she related the numeracy requirement in the 'set' projec t to the mathematics of music - note values - time intervals, note groupings, etc . She began to devise games including 'Music Snap ' , 'Musical Snakes and Ladders', 'Spin a Tune', etc. One day as she explained one of these games (which consis t ed of throwing a die to obtain a numerical value and then counting round a board to land on a particular note, A, B flat, D etc . , each child building up simple phrases of music as the game proceeded - I suggested that it might be interesting if the game board could rotate allowing say for a particular key-signature to be set, and any 'sharps' or 'flats' in that key to be indicated. Wendy was delighted with this suggestion and went home with the intention of making a card model that would do this for a particular key-signature. The following day she turned up unexpectedly with her model and very excited that she had got it to work!, indeed, she was sure it would work for other key-signatures too - a 'Calculator for Music Notation' was to emerge and b e come reality. In its final form the calculator was made of acrylic perspex and the 'mark 3' version can be set to indicate sharps or flats for all key - signatures where they apply, and to indicate scales, chords, arpeggios and intervals as well as Simple and complex harmonic notes . With the Calculator Project, Wendy won a major prize in the senior group of the Design Council/G .E . C. Competition in 1978.
