"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."
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Pretty cool huh? - Steve
