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Musical Literacy: How Song Can Help You Read

06th April 2011
The benefits of music education on math skills are now common knowledge. They also make sense. Counting rhythms, building spatial relationships, and dividing measures require analytical skills that can help students face similar math equations. So music i... Read >

Math Word Problems and Problematic Words

06th April 2011
A recent study by Cecilia Kilhamn of the University of Gothenberg suggests that word problems and metaphors are muddling up our numbers. In one experiment, several students were asked to solve equations based on direct instruction and metaphorical explana... Read >