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Music students score better in math, science, English than non-musical peers
Medical XPress ^ | June 24, 2019 | American Psychological Association

Posted on 06/30/2019 6:09:40 PM PDT by ConservativeMind

High schoolers who take music courses score significantly better on exams in certain other subjects, including math and science, than their non-musical peers, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association.

"It is believed that students who spend school time in music classes, rather than in further developing their skills in math, science and English classes, will underperform in those disciplines. Our research suggests that, in fact, the more they study music, the better they do in those subjects."

"Students who participated in music, who had higher achievement in music, and who were highly engaged in music had higher exam scores across all subjects, while these associations were more pronounced for those who took instrumental music rather than vocal music," he said. "On average, the children who learned to play a musical instrument for many years, and were now playing in high school band and orchestra, were the equivalent of about one academic year ahead of their peers with regard to their English, mathematics and science skills, as measured by their exam grades."

Apart from the strength of the associations, the researchers were most surprised by the consistency of the associations across all three subject areas (math, science and English).

"Learning to play a musical instrument and playing in an ensemble is very demanding. A student has to learn to read music notation, develop eye-hand-mind coordination, develop keen listening skills, develop team skills for playing in an ensemble and develop discipline to practice. All those learning experiences play a role in enhancing children's cognitive capacities and their self-efficacy," he said. "It is that high levels of music engagement for which we saw the strongest effects."

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KEYWORDS: college; music; scores; test
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To: Tax-chick

And every good boy does fine.


61 posted on 06/30/2019 8:38:33 PM PDT by brianr10
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To: ConservativeMind

Of course this is true music not only incorporates mathematics, but also incorporates culture and tone

And those that studied music have to have a very deep focus


62 posted on 06/30/2019 8:47:32 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: ConservativeMind

Sure worked for Brian May (Queen)...


63 posted on 06/30/2019 9:13:52 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: ConservativeMind

Unlike their peers, Music students can count to 4.


64 posted on 06/30/2019 9:16:37 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: ConservativeMind

...and math students score better in music, science, English...
...and science students score better in music, math, English...
...and English students score better in music, science, math...

...and journalism students fail in music, math, science, English...


65 posted on 06/30/2019 9:17:08 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: jmacusa

Talent is not inherent. It is the result of hard work. You have to practice. World class musicians practice as much as 8 to 12 hours a day.


66 posted on 06/30/2019 9:22:29 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Anything that correlates with upper middle class parents works:

Kids whose parents can afford to buy $500 flutes when they're in high school.

Kids who ate lobster or caviar at least once a year while growing up...

Children who visited Disney World at least twice before they were 16...

67 posted on 06/30/2019 9:37:04 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats are "a party that makes. Americans feel like strangers in their own country. NYT)
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To: ConservativeMind

Congratulations. You’ve figured out that someone who works very hard to be good at something, tends to work hard at everything else, too.


68 posted on 06/30/2019 9:38:52 PM PDT by irv (Live Tea or die!)
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To: wally_bert

You must not have tried.


69 posted on 06/30/2019 9:53:48 PM PDT by HIDEK6 ( God bless Donald Trump.)
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To: P-Marlowe

Sorry, you can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear. If you haven’t got it build on you’re not going to make it happen.


70 posted on 06/30/2019 10:22:37 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
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To: jmacusa

Talent comes from desire and the willingness to do what it takes to get it. It boils down to practice.

If you are willing to put in the work, you can do it. I practice a couple of hours about 3 times a week. Enough to be good, but a long way from being great.

I was not born with talent. What God gave me I had to develop. It takes time. If you are willing to play the same musical phrase 500 times, you will get it down.

Patience and desire are the beginning of talent. From there it is hard work. In the words of Chet Atkins:

There are no shortcuts.


71 posted on 06/30/2019 10:46:21 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: P-Marlowe

Sorry, respectfully I don’t agree.


72 posted on 06/30/2019 10:53:34 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
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To: jmacusa

Can you type?


73 posted on 06/30/2019 11:02:05 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: P-Marlowe
Never learned the classic way. In high school 45 years ago before the advent of the computer age I took a typing class but just couldn't get the hang of it. Even with a computer key pad I just use my two index fingers. I can't put my two hands and fingers over the key pad in the way one used to do with a typewriter and fly over the keys. I see people, young people especially to whom a typewriter is a museum piece and I'm in awe of how fast they can do it. If I played my drums the way I use a key pad I'd be booed off the stage.
74 posted on 06/30/2019 11:16:10 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
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To: jmacusa

Typing and playing the piano require the same level of hand eye coordination. Interestingly, the keyboard is set up so that your left hand does most of the typing. Most of the finger work on a guitar involves using the left hand. Music is a right brain activity. But left handed people tend to reverse the guitar so that they use their right hand more.

Just thinking out loud. :-)


75 posted on 06/30/2019 11:26:18 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: P-Marlowe

When I played the drums I was left handed. That is to say rather then having my right hand holding a drum stick and my high hat to left I held one of the sticks in my left hand with my high hat to the right.


76 posted on 06/30/2019 11:46:34 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
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To: scrabblehack

If all the music students were buying their own instruments, or if the instruments were covered by donations, that would be a different story.

But, when the school buys the instruments, it’s expensive.

At the end of the article, the researchers are talking about funding, including funding for musical instruments.

I do agree that sports programs should be separate from the schools, too. Private leagues have teams.


77 posted on 07/01/2019 12:14:51 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Keep fighting, Nick!)
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To: SkyDancer; MinuteGal

“During WWII musicians were recruited for code breaking.”

I’m retired now, but I worked for the Univ. of IL (UIC) Math Dept, directly for the Head. One of our Profs, and my good buddy, was an older gent who was a Brit. During WWII, as a then young wiz kid Mathematician, he worked as a code breaker in the U.K. He was also a top notch pipe organist, and played in various Oak Park, IL churches (OP is where Frank Lloyd Wright had his architecture studio and he built many Prairie Style homes there). Ernest Hemingway was also from Oak Park; it’s where my parents and my sisters and I lived until we moved further out in the suburbs. Great historical town just outside Chicago.

Oliver mostly played in his beautiful Episcopal Church in Oak Park. So, a great musician, and a great mathematician, and a great friend of mine in the Dept. As an aside, Oliver was also a conservative, and there was a secret network of us, many of whom would drop in at various times during the day to my office to get their dose of political chit chat (we were surrounded by primarily liberal political enemies, lol). Oliver is deceased, but he fondly lives on in my memories.


78 posted on 07/01/2019 1:49:18 AM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP 45 - will lethargic Conservatives let him be impeached by Dems? )
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To: ConservativeMind

Bump for later


79 posted on 07/01/2019 2:52:54 AM PDT by dis.kevin (Dry white toast)
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To: HIDEK6

What little I had thrown at me in school didn’t take.

Usually an A and B student without opening a book most of the time.


80 posted on 07/01/2019 3:08:27 AM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as intwerchangeable as spark plugs.)
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