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The New York–based program studies how structured musical elements may assist student understanding of math concepts. Structured rhythm can provide a framework that helps students organize and ...

The power of mathematics to open new possibilities in music has been demonstrated by scientists for years. Modern experiments with computer music are just the most recent example. Anthony Cheung's ...

"There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres." — Pythagoras. Disclaimer: I am neither a musician nor a mathematician, though I did take piano lessons ...

From Pythagoras to Leibniz to Diderot, philosophers have long drawn profound connections between mathematics and music. In the liberal arts education of medieval universities, music was one part of ...

IOWA CITY - When thinking of music, the first thing that comes to mind likely isn't math - but as this year's M.C. Ginsberg Artist in Residence, Henry Cardenas has combined the two in his curriculum ...

‏Jami Jorgensen is the human jukebox of quadratic equations. “Anything that’s an algorithm, I have a song for it,” said the energetic middle-school math teacher in Hayward Unified, in the east Bay ...

A state bill may run into problems when trying to incorporate music education into middle school math classes. “In the same way that some people may not be math people, math teachers may not be music ...

Dmitri Tymoczko, professor of music at Princeton, analyzed the connection between math and music Tuesday in a lecture titled “Musical Geometry, Games and Multimedia Art” as part of the Institute for ...

Cheng was the guest speaker at the second-annual Celebration of Math and Music, an event hosted by the partnership between the Jacobs School of Music and the math department in the College of Arts and ...

The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science wrapped up last week in Washington, DC. One particularly enjoyable and informative highlight was a session on Mathematics ...