Music + Math = unprecedented proficiency.It may be the latest evidence of the Mozart effect The Mozart effect refers to disputed scientific studies that test a theory suggesting that classical music increases brain activity more positively than other kinds of music,[1] . Students at Weaver Elementary School elementary school: see school. in Los Alamitos Los Alamitos (lôs ăləmē`təs, lŏs), city (1990 pop. 11,676), Orange co., NE of Long Beach, S Calif., in a suburban area; inc. 1960. Los Alamitos Racetrack and U.S. military installations are nearby. , Calif., are collecting recyclables and selling T-shirts to help fund a supplementary math program. MIND Institute's ST Music + Math program spurred a new level of math motivation that yielded phenomenal gains in math proficiency pro·fi·cien·cy n. pl. pro·fi·cien·cies The state or quality of being proficient; competence. Noun 1. proficiency - the quality of having great facility and competence scores at the elementary school. ST, or spatial temporal, is the ability to think visually and several steps ahead in patterns and pictures. Before the program was implemented, the high-performing school hovered in the 78th percentile percentile, n the number in a frequency distribution below which a certain percentage of fees will fall. E.g., the ninetieth percentile is the number that divides the distribution of fees into the lower 90% and the upper 10%, or that fee level in math proficiency scores, says Principal Erin Kominsky. Since implementing MIND six years ago, scores have skyrocketed to the 99th percentile. The program combines computer lab math activities and a piano lab. Each week, students participate in 45 minutes of standards-based spatial temporal math activities in computer lab. MIND teaches math visually, representing mathematical concepts like fractions with pictures before introducing formal algorithms, says Kominsky. the approach reinforces math concepts taught in the classroom and provides another method to help students master concepts. Each strand includes levels of difficulty, allowing students to progress at their own pace. And the real-time program provides instant data about students' performance, which allows teachers to track progress. In weekly lessons in the piano lab, students are taught music theory mathematically and learn to play the piano based on symmetry symmetry, generally speaking, a balance or correspondence between various parts of an object; the term symmetry is used both in the arts and in the sciences. , with the left hand mirroring the right. Lessons are designed to enhance students' thinking and reasoning skills. Kominsky adds, "MIND has revolutionized how we teach math. It would be a great day when we could have this in every school for every child." www.mindinst.org MIND OVER MAth A Mathematics courses named Math A, Maths A, and similar are found in:
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