Public and private schools across the country are rediscovering the importance of music and fine arts. There are a multitude of new studies proving the positive connection between a quality music education and higher math test scores.
It is not hard to find the correlation between these two subjects. In fact, most educators agree that music and math are very similar disciplines. Both require a very specific set of skills. It is safe to say that schools understand that students will learn the same self-motivation, cooperation, memorization and critical reasoning skills in music class as they do in math class.
Self-motivation is balanced by group work and cooperation. Children learn to work together toward a common cause. Perhaps they are working on a choral concert or learning a piece of orchestral music. Regardless of the reason behind the group work, just learning that your participation is necessary and will affect the outcome of the project is vital to a child’s
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