Playing the piano taught me math (2016)
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Playing the piano taught me math (2016)
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Re: Playing the piano taught me math (2016)
#2I like learning of people's mnemonic sequences. Really nice how TFA was able to adapt their strategy to new, previously unencountered ideas like negative, hexadecimal.
I'd truly like to know how Von Neumann remembered everything.
Re: Playing the piano taught me math (2016)
#3Music provided a framework for assigning numbers to fingers that I didn't grow up with. So I find myself counting using my fingers naturally but sometimes start with my index finger, and other times start with my thumb. I think his system is more intuitive and could be more useful but I'm not sure if I can relearn it as an adult and make it stick without a lot of practice! As an aside, my mother is French and learned math in France, and in her school she learned rather different methods for working out addition and multiplication. I remember doing a double-take the first time I saw how she worked out a problem when I was in grade school.
Re: Playing the piano taught me math (2016)
#4It taught the author to count, which is just a subset of math, though a lot of people might not care about the difference.
Re: Playing the piano taught me math (2016)
#5I've been looking at music over the last year or so, bits of basic music theory. As a child I had no idea how linked to maths it was, and how much easier music is once you realise that it's just applied mathematics and touch typing
Re: Playing the piano taught me math (2016)
#6I wish learning math would teach me how to play the piano...
Re: Playing the piano taught me math (2016)
#7Hooray for any tool (or workflow) that makes it easier to work with otherwise-abstract formulas! This way sounds to me like a handy method for everyday in-mind adding and subtracting too.. I definitely aspire to upgrade my understanding of notes and frequencies to the point where I can connect them to the math!
Re: Playing the piano taught me math (2016)
#8This video (in French, with english subtitles) helped me figure out the mathematical side of music. Highly recommended.
Re: Playing the piano taught me math (2016)
#9I've been looking at music over the last year or so, bits of basic music theory. As a child I had no idea how linked to maths it was, and how much easier music is once you realise that it's just applied mathematics and touch typing
I've been doing the same. Are there any resources you've found particularly helpful? As a true beginner, the Music Matters YT channel does a great job of giving enough of the Why's without going so deep as to completely lose me.
Re: Playing the piano taught me math (2016)
#10> When all my first-grade classmates were memorizing math facts like “2 + 3 = 5”
> I was called out during class when my teacher saw me fiddling with my fingers during a classroom exercise
From their LinkedIn profile, it appears that the author went to school in the US. I'm not from the US, but my impression of US schools is the complete opposite of one where students are taught to "memorize math facts" or one where students get "called out" for doing something in a different way.
In fact, from the many workbooks that I see on the net, my impression is one where a lot of pain is taken to ensure that students understand the material without resorting to rote memorization.
Also, my impression is that students, if they show independence of thought or potential in an area, are given a lot of support to pursue it from within the schooling system in the form of being put on accelerated paths, freedom to attend classes of higher grades, etc.
In contrast, many other countries have rigid grade structures, where students are forced to stick to the level of discourse in their grade in school, and can only pursue their interest outside the schooling system.
Perhaps some of the European systems have it better, but this flexibility to rise beyond your grade within the school system is something that isn't available in a LOT of countries.