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Music-Math Connection
* "Music is a part of all of us. It is critical to us as learners to develop pattern-making. Math skills tend to be stronger in students who have a music background." (D'Arcangelo, M. 1998)
*"Teachers can use music to enhance children's pleasure and understanding of difficult math concepts and skills. Children need active, experimental learning experiences in meaningful contexts to develop complex thinking skills and problem solving." (Edelson, R.J., & Johnson, G. 2003/2004)
*"Music enhances spatial-temporal reasoning skills, which are crucial to learning proportional reasoning and geometric skills." (Grandin, T., Peterson, M., & Shaw, G.L. 1988)
"Music promotes the development of such thinking skills as recognizing patterns and using logic. This type of thinking is essential for mathematics and science."(Rauscher, R.H., Shaw, G.L., Levine, I.J., Wright, E.L., Dennis, W.R., & Newcomb, R.I. 1997)
"Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education and children should be taught music before anything else."-Plato
References
D'Arcangelo, M. (1988). The brains behind the brain. Educational Leadership, 56(3), 20-25, 998.
Edelson, R.J. & JohnsonG. Music makes math meaningful. Childhood Education. Winter, 2003-4.
Grandin, T., Peterson, M. & Shaw, G.L. (1988). Spatial-temporal versus language-analytic reasoning: The role of music training. Arts Education Policy Review, 99 (6), 11-15.
Rauscher, R.H., Shaw, G. L., Levine, I.J., Wright, E.L., Dennis, W.R. & Newcomb, R.I.(1997). Music training causes long-term enhancement of preschool children's spatial-temporal easoning. Neurological Research, 19, 2-8.
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