BOSTON -- A new study finds art and music classes could help boost students' math scores. When schools are facing budget cuts, music and art classes are often the first to go. But a new study suggests ...

Could studying music help students in other subjects? Music education researcher Martin Bergee at the University of Kansas was skeptical, so he studied middle school students in several school ...

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 ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Students who take music courses in high school tend to perform significantly ...

A typical 8th grade math textbook includes just a handful of real-world problems for students to solve, finds a new international study. And that’s not enough, according to William Schmidt, ...

Peter Gouzouasis received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada for this research. Martin Guhn received funding, together with Principal Investigator Dr.

Anthony Cheung’s formal mathematical training essentially ended with high school calculus. But as a musician and composer, he has explored mathematical phenomena in new ways, especially through their ...

A bad relationship with math can start early, and anxiety or a lack of confidence around numbers can compound over time — transforming from a grade school phobia to a career hurdle. But some math ...

Lillian Pierce wants to transform access to the world of mathematics, while making headway on problems that bridge the discrete and continuous. Lillian Pierce vividly remembers a moment when she was 4 ...