The mathematics teacher's task is to draw out and make conscious what children already know unconsciously, rather than to push concepts into their memories. Teaching through movement and art does not reduce the accuracy of the resulting intellectual concept. It enhances the concept so it can be experienced through the whole human being.
Art thus becomes a fundamental medium of education, even for academic subjects.
It may live with us a lifetime. In general, everything that is colorful, active, warm, beautiful and diverse involves us, because it is alive and ensouled. Mechanically presented material is dead and alien to us. It remains outside of us. Several recent studies have created a bit of a sensation by suggesting that music training for young children can improve cognitive skills in other arenas, including mathematics.