It is believed that students who do well in music are also talented in mathematics. Due to this belief, it is said that getting music lessens at a young age will enhance math skills and ability. Research proves that children tend to improve in their math ability after being trained in music. Furthermore, listening to music and getting lessens from a young age will help one to improve in his or her academic performance as well. Listening to music can warm up the neural transmitters inside the brain and help improve one's spatial performance, and studies show that spatial performance has a high relation to mathematics.
For example, the winner in the Los Angeles County Chapter Math Counts Competition from PVIS plays a musical instrument.
Music Frequency and Math
Most of the musical devices, such as octave, pitch, chord, frequency, etc. can all be explained through mathematics.
Sound waves create high and low air pressures and the changes in these pressures produce the sound and the frequency controls the pitch that we hear.
For example, the middle C has a frequency of 262 Hertz. If one doubles the frequency of the middle C, then he/she will get the note that is one octave higher, in this case, the high C.
Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos was a Greek mathematician and is well known for the Pythagorean Theorem, which is believed to be one of the oldest theories of math. Pythagoras thought that everything in nature was connected to mathematics in some way and he studied the relationship between music and mathematics. Pythagoras is thought to be the first person to find a relation between music and math.
The music that existed in Greece during Pythagoras's time, approximately 500-600 B.C., was not as complex and difficult as it is in the present day. The Greek music only contained five different notes and Pythagoras though that each note could be played using fractions of one string.
If you had a string that could play the note "A," the next note, C, would be played using 4/5 of the length of the string. Moreover, 3/4 of the string will approximately play "D," 2/3 will approximately play "E," and 3/5 of the string will approximately play "F" (Mathematics and Music)
It is believed that students who do well in music are also talented in mathematics. Due to this belief, it is said that getting music lessens at a young age will enhance math skills and ability. Research proves that children tend to improve in their math ability after being trained in music. Furthermore, listening to music and getting lessens from a young age will help one to improve in his or her academic performance as well. Listening to music can warm up the neural transmitters inside the brain and help improve one's spatial performance, and studies show that spatial performance has a high relation to mathematics.
For example, the winner in the Los Angeles County Chapter Math Counts Competition from PVIS plays a musical instrument.
Music Frequency and Math
Sound waves create high and low air pressures and the changes in these pressures produce the sound and the frequency controls the pitch that we hear.
For example, the middle C has a frequency of 262 Hertz. If one doubles the frequency of the middle C, then he/she will get the note that is one octave higher, in this case, the high C.
Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos was a Greek mathematician and is well known for the Pythagorean Theorem, which is believed to be one of the oldest theories of math. Pythagoras thought that everything in nature was connected to mathematics in some way and he studied the relationship between music and mathematics. Pythagoras is thought to be the first person to find a relation between music and math.
The music that existed in Greece during Pythagoras's time, approximately 500-600 B.C., was not as complex and difficult as it is in the present day. The Greek music only contained five different notes and Pythagoras though that each note could be played using fractions of one string.
If you had a string that could play the note "A," the next note, C, would be played using 4/5 of the length of the string. Moreover, 3/4 of the string will approximately play "D," 2/3 will approximately play "E," and 3/5 of the string will approximately play "F" (Mathematics and Music)
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