Studies since the 1980s have shown a link between listening to classical music and enhanced reasoning skills. In 1993, college students who listened to Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major showed a short-term improvement in spatial temporal reasoning. In addition, a 1997 study showed similar results among preschool students who took keyboard training. On a recent standardized test, second-graders ranked in the 27th percentile in math. The music-math program is supplementary and does not replace existing math instruction.
Students take the piano lessons and play the computer math games twice a week.
Some students participated in the math-game portion only. The pupils who learned the piano and played the math games scored 27 percent higher on fractions than those who only worked on the computer games. Students who did everything scored 100 percent higher on fractions than students who were taught only the traditional teaching methods. You have reached the end of the file.