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How do music concepts and related experiences relate to Life Skills, Mathematics and Language.

18 Nov 2021, 00:46 Publicly Viewable

Music ignites all areas of child development and skills for school readiness including intellectual, social-emotional , motor, language, and overall literacy. It helps the body and the mind work together. Exposing children to music during early development helps them learn the sounds and meanings of words. Music brings joy to the learners and makes the class more exciting. 

Life Skills: Practicing Music builds the skills to Achieve Goals. Music lessons also teach students that you must practice to achieve results. Practice and consistency is an important life skill when learning music because they will see and hear the results of their practice week after week.

Mathematics: Learning music improves math skills because, at some level, all music is math. Performing music, therefore, reinforces parts of the brain used when doing math. Studies even show that children who play instruments are able to complete complex mathematical problems better than peers who do not play instruments.

Language: The most obvious connection between language and music is that music can be used to help us remember words. It has been convincingly shown that words are better recalled when they are learned as a song rather than speech - in particular conditions. Melody is what is important. Rhythm is obviously part of that. 

Music education improves and develops language skills in children. Music stimulates the brain, and with its varied sounds and lyrics, students are exposed to a large amount of vocabulary in a short amount of time.