CD:  
I've had many inquiries about this (and certainly have enough "material") and will post word here if and when I can secure all needed resources, time, logistics, etc.,  to create one (a link to an audio file containing "Domain and Range" can be found here, though).  Here are some options for now:  (1) give yourself (or students) permission to sing the lyrics a capella, (2) share the spotlight with musically inclined students in your classroom who can provide the accompaniment on appropriate instruments, (3) get a vocals-removed karaoke disc of the original tune and sing (and/or have students sing) the math lyrics instead, or (4) bring me to your school!

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 Greatest LESSER Hits:  published MATH LYRICS....

from the Spring 2002 issue of  GCTM Reflections (p. 7):
• “Not Even!" is an "odd" rap that gives (upper elementary school and up) students a fun way to explore mathematical and real world connections with odd numbers!

from the Winter 2002 issue of  STATS (pp. 16-17):
• “The Gambler” addresses strategies and myths for playing a state lottery, and may be sung to the tune of the same-titled Don Schlitz song that yielded Kenny Rogers a #1 country hit and TV miniseries. [My interest in finding creative ways to educate general audiences about the lottery dates back to a highly-publicized (all the way to CNN Headline News!) course I created on the psychology and probability underlying the then-new Texas Lottery; see articles in November 1997 Spreadsheet User and August 28, 1993 Austin American-Statesman]

• “Birthday Song” contrasts the often confused events of "some people matching" with "someone matches with ME" [see my article about the Birthday Problem in the May 1999 Mathematics Teacher], and may be sung to the tune of Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill’s “Happy Birthday to You”.

• “Statistician’s BLUEs” is a statistician’s “breakup” song pun-ctuated with statistics terms (12-bar blues music and lyrics by Lesser).

from the Winter 2002 issue of  GCTM Reflections (p. 11):
• "Check Your Work" reminds all of us (from student to teacher to NASA contractor!) of something important to do, and may be sung to the tune of "I've Been Working on the Railroad".

from the August 2001 issue of Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal (p. 2):
• "Stairway to Seven" -- explores a rich variety of mathematical and real-world connections to the number 7, and may be sung to the tune of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant's (7-verse) song "Stairway to Heaven," the Led Zeppelin song that has been played most on the radio.  As Monte Zerger says in the March 2002 College Mathematics Journal (p. 74):  "A mathematical exploration into the 'life' of a natural number can not only be an entertaining and refreshing diversion, it can lead to engaging questions and unexpected discoveries as well." 

from the May 2001 issue of Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal (p. 6, p. 46):
• "Hotel Infinity" --  was used as a metaphor by German mathematician David Hilbert near the start of the 1900's to help address paradoxes about infinity that had emerged, and may be sung to the tune of the (also surreal) #1 hit by The Eagles that was the title cut off their #1 album Hotel California. [I was inspired by the Eagles' song and by Ian Stewart's "Hilbert's Hotel" story in the December 1998 New Scientist]

• "Representation" -- explains the newest of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards, and may be sung to the tune of Carly Simon’s #13 hit “Anticipation” that was later also used in a ketchup commercial! [ I was inspired to write this lyric while writing an article on multiple representations which appears in the 2001 NCTM Yearbook ] 

from the Autumn 2001 issue of Teaching Statistics (p. 84):
• "Taking Leave of Our Census" -- summarizes the recent controversy about statistically adjusting America’s decennial census for undercount, and may be sung to the tune of John Denver’s #1 hit “Annie’s Song” [As the sole staff statistician for the Texas Legislative Council during their redistricting project in 1990-91,  I utilized Census data and gained context to appreciate some of the issues recently raised about statistical adjustment for undercount.]  This lyric was republished in the Winter 2002 issue of STATS. 

from the May 2000 issue of Mathematics Teacher (pp. 372-377):
• “We Will Graph You!” -- encourages students step-by-step to graph a given function (there's a version for "general form" parabolas and a version adapted from a John A. Carter lyric for "slope-intercept form" lines) as they chant over the pound-pound-clap rhythmic pattern (an algo-rhythm?) of Queen’s #4 hit “We Will Rock You!”  On March 31, 2002, the quadratic version was republished to accompany a story in the Herald Sun, the largest-selling newspaper in Australia!

• “American Pi” -- presents historical highlights (and a mnemonic for the first 6 significant figures) of the number pi, ranging from an implied value in the Bible to the Indiana legislature’s 1897 consideration of a bill that declared pi equal to 4 [see Arthur Hallerberg's article "Indiana's Squared Circle" in the May 1977 Mathematics Magazine], and may be sung to the tune of Don McLean’s #1 hit “American Pie.”  The Math Forum website lists it as a great song for "Pi Day" (3/14)!

• “Domain and Range” -- helps students keep in mind a function’s possible “inputs” and “outputs,” and may be sung to the tune of the traditional 19th-century (pre-Billboard charts!) Western song “Home on the Range.” [you can hear a radio performance of this song that Lesser performed during a recent appearance (it's archived at www.webct.com; you can skip to the 47th minute to hear the song) on "Math Medley," a weekly hour-long talkradio show broadcast live on AM radio in Arizona and New England and on Internet radio www.renaissanceradio.com worldwide!]

• “Fifty Ways to Work a Problem” -- reminds students that real-life problem solving follows a general strategy (i.e., G. Polya's 4 steps as paraphrased in the chorus) but can be carried out in many ways, and may be sung to the tune of Paul Simon’s (only solo) #1 hit “Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover.” [ note:  Simon's lyric lends itself to being parodied also to teach specific bits of content, as illustrated by Dan Kalman in the Nov. 1993 College Mathematics Journal or David Morgereth in the Oct. 2001 Mathematics Teacher ]

• “From a Distance” -- explains how some features of a graph are revealed and others concealed when viewed “from a distance,” and may be sung to the tune of the Grammy-winning song written by Julie Gold that was a #2 hit for Bette Midler.  [I was inspired to connect views of world harmony to views of a graph by a writing-to-learn exercise in an algebra textbook (Wells and Schmitt 1996, p. 321) which asked students to connect the opening line of Gold's song with the fact that the graphs of y = x^7 and y = x^7 - 3x^6 + x^5 look similar from a distance.]

• “The Way I Learn Best” -- allows students to express their learning style and experiences in mathematics [it could be adapted for other subjects also] as they fill in the blanks of the script and then may sing it to the tune of Suzanne Vega’s Grammy-nominated #5 hit “Luka.”

from the April 2000 issue of Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal (p. 48, p. 11):
• “Imaginary” -- addresses students' common initial question about the usefulness of imaginary numbers, and may be sung to the tune of John Lennon's #3 hit "Imagine."
[my lyric was inspired by reviewing Paul J. Nahin's  An Imaginary Tale: The Story of i for the October 1999 Mathematics Teacher.]

• “Math Induction” -- introduces the technique of mathematical induction to students, adapted with permission from a lyric by Dane R. Camp (in his fun 1998 ICTM booklet) and may be sung to the tune of Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind" (a #2 hit for Peter Paul & Mary).

from the March 1999 issue of Humanistic  Mathematics Network Journal(p. 19, p. 32, p. 12):
• “Music of the Spheres” -- was inspired by the so-named Pythagorean idea (also referred to centuries later by others such as Maimonides and Kepler) that each planet contributed a particular "note" (based on ratios of small whole numbers) to the grand harmony of the universe (lyrics and music written by Lesser).

• “Cantor's Coat” -- concisely depicts the challenges that mathematician faced during his life (lyrics and music written by Lesser).
[inspired by reading  J. W. Dauben's Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite,Princeton University Press, 1979]

• “Numbers Man” -- is a whimsical "math love song" I imagined my father could have written for my mother, whom he got to know by being her calculus tutor (lyrics and music written by Lesser).

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