Music studies increase reading skills and math proficiency dramatically. The children in the more active and frequent music program not only had better attitudes toward learning, but had significantly increased their reading scores and math performance. In addition, the Rhode Island team found that the children who continued their special music and visual arts classes for a second year continued to improve in math. Music study improves SAT scores. Scholastic Aptitude Tests compared over seven years show that students who studied music performance or appreciation scored higher on both the verbal and math portions of the test than students with no coursework or experience in the arts.
Music molds the brain to create musical ability.
Music enhances linguistic skills. Sandra Trehub, a psychologist at the University of Toronto reported that since music attunes a child's brain to changing rhythms and pitches, the tradition of singing to your baby takes on new significance as a tool to foster basic linguistic skills . The evidence is in. Music can make you smarter.