Now that the school year has kicked in full force, many parents look to November as back-to-school night when they meet their children's teachers for the first time and get an assessment of how well or poorly their little juniors are doing. Historically, the subject of math has provided ample cause for concern as many students lag in this subject and struggle. Yet one secret to better grades is quite simple: let your kids play music.
Yes that is correct. Let your kids play music. Let them take up a musical instrument. Whether they choose to learn violin or piano, or little rocker Johnny wants to be like Eddie Van Halen and rip through the Eruption solo, does not matter. The important thing is that they begin to learn some instrument. This will definitely improve their math grades because of the intimate relationship between music and mathematics.
Learning a musical instrument will expose your child to learn to read music. Beside strengthening hand-eye coordination, which is always a good thing, learning to read music will strongly improve your child's ability to work with fractions. Yes that is correct. Musical notes are structured as fractions of a whole note. Thus a quarter note receives one-quarter the time a whole note receives and an eighth note receives one-eighth the time. Moreover, there are sixteenth notes, thirty-second notes and even, though less common, sixty-fourth and one hundred twenty-eighth notes. Moreover, there are "dotted notes" which are held for the length of the original note plus one half of that time interval. Thus a "dotted quarter note" is held for 1/4 of the time plus 1/2 of 1/4 or 1/8 of the time more, for a total of 3/8 of the original time interval. This "dot" operator functions across all the notes. Thus by learning to read and play music, your children are subconsciously mastering fractions and some of their arithmetic operations.
As your children progress more deeply into their instrument and learn more about its underlying musical theory, they become exposed to even more of the intermingling between mathematics and music. When children learn different musical scales and the component notes of such scales, the developing musicians are being exposed to harmonics and how certain note frequencies work with others. Even if the students never become deeply immersed in harmonics and scale relationships, and just learn to play for pure enjoyment, this activity will always certainly be a welcome addition to the agenda of any maturing adolescent. Not only will the ability to play an instrument obviate many potentially boring moments, but also remove children from getting involved in otherwise unhealthy, or even dangerous, habits.
So if you want your child's math scores to improve, you might not necessarily have to go out and hire an expensive tutor. You might only have to go out and buy a guitar...or drum kit...or piano. Go do it. It will be one of the best investments you ever make in your child's future. Let the music play on!
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