A local teacher is thinking outside of the "boom box," using music to fight classroom boredom. And he's nearly got it "beat." Lamar Queen is "king" at making arithmetic appealing and equations ...

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 ...

A crucial link between mathematics and music is nicely illustrated by the Tonnetz, a geometric diagram representing the harmonic relationships between the notes of the musical scale. An early version ...

I used to do a lot of counting as a trumpeter in my local youth orchestra. Sitting in the brass section, counting out rests so I didn’t crash in early with a fanfare, I began to realise that ...

Celebrating World Music Day this year is the perfect time to explore the symphonic relationship between music and mathematics. This connection, often overlooked, is a powerful tool in teaching complex ...

Elaine Chew receives funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK, the European Research Council, and the US National ...

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 ...

If music’s relationship to mathematics were purely numerical, purely a matter of counting and calculating, interest in this field could easily be consigned to the dusty ponderings of academics and ...

It’s hard for anyone to say what music looks like, but a new mathematical approach sees classical music as cone-shaped and jazz as pyramid-like. The connections between math and music are many, from ...

His 6th-century-BCE experiments of plucking stretched strings of different lengths reportedly led him to stumble upon the harmonious connection between frequencies and their ratios. Certain simple ...