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Stuck on a tricky math problem? Start clapping. Grade school kids who learned about fractions through a rhythm-and-music-based curriculum outperformed their peers in traditional math classes. The work is in Educational Studies in Mathematics.
被一个棘手的数学问题困住了？那就拿手打打拍子吧。若小学生们在韵律和音乐课程学习了音节划分的话，他们的数学成绩要比按照传统方式学习的同龄人要好很多。这项研究成果发表在《数学教育研究》上。
Fractions let you divide up a measure of music into notes of varying length. For example, one four-beat measure could contain a single whole note held for all four beats, two half notes of two beats apiece, four quarter notes of a beat each, and so on. In the Academic Music program, based on the Kodaly method of musical education, students clap, drum and chant to memorize the lengths of musical notes—then solve problems in which fractional notes must add up to a full measure of music.
音节划分是让你把一首音乐的曲子划分成不同长度的音符。例如，一个四拍的曲子可以包含一个全音符，它可以是全部的四个节拍，可以是每两个节拍的两个二分音符，可以是每个节拍的四个四分音符，等等。在专业音乐课程中，根据柯达伊音乐教育方法，要求学生们鼓掌、击鼓以及歌颂以便他们记住音符的长度——这就解决了整首音乐曲子音符划分的问题。
Sixty-seven students participated in the study. Half did math problems using the Academic Music system. And after six weeks, the students in the music program averaged 50 percent higher on tests than did the kids in regular math class. Fractions create a solid foundation for further math education—so mastering them is music to educators’ ears.
有63名学生参与了这项研究。其中一半学生使用了专业音乐系统来辅助数学学习。六个星期后，这些学生的数学考试分数比按照传统方式学习的学生的分数平均要高出50％。音节划分给进一步的数学教育提供了一个坚实的基础——对教育者而言，这条消息本身就是一首美妙的旋律了。
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