@inproceedings{fa26430aa9a94a94bc41fee4bb76a8f9,
title = "Teaching Mathematics with Music: A Pilot Study",
abstract = "A solid foundation in mathematics is paramount to a comprehensive STEM education. Many students, however, struggle with connecting mathematical concepts with their everyday life and find its symbolic nomenclature unintuitive; subsequently this can be a significant barrier for many students in undertaking further STEM studies. In this paper we describe a pilot study which aims to determine whether understanding in mathematics, and specifically, fractions, equivalence, ordinance, and division, improves when we employ music and musical rhythm in our lessons. This pilot study is currently being trialed at a public high school in Sydney's South-West and despite the fact that the study is ongoing, preliminary data suggest students are responding to this novel teaching methodology. In this paper we report increases in both test performance and, importantly, student engagement.",
keywords = "K-12 mathematics, STEAM education, STEM education, Analogical encoding, Music education",
author = "Hamilton, \{Tara Julia\} and Julieanne Doai and Andrew Milne and Vicky Saisanas and Andrea Calilhanna and Courtney Hilton and Micah Goldwater and Richard Cohn",
year = "2018",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings Of Ieee International Conference On Teaching Assessment And Learning For Engineering",
publisher = "IEEE",
pages = "927--931",
editor = "MJW Lee and S Nikolic and J Shen and LCU Lei and GKW Wong and N Venkatarayalu",
booktitle = "Proceedings Of 2018 Ieee International Conference On Teaching, Assessment, And Learning For Engineering (tale)",
note = "IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (IEEE TALE) - Engineering Next-Generation Learning ; Conference date: 04-12-2018 Through 07-12-2018",
}