THE MUSIC, AN IMPORTANT RESOURCE

The music must be a very good resource at the moment of acquiring a mathematical knowledge in ages of between 6 and 12 years.

As Jean Philippe Rameau said:

La música es una ciencia que debe tener unas reglas establecidas; estas reglas deben derivarse de un principio evidente, y este principio no puede revelarse sin la ayuda de las matemáticas.

This aspect attracted the attention of the mathematicians from the time of Pythagoras, nevertheless, always that we think about a class of Mathematics we have in our mind a traditional class in which the only used resources are the voice of the teacher and the textbook.

From my short experience, I believe that if teachers introduce the music in class in order to explain any mathematical content, the motivation of pupils will increase and, besides, the acquired learning will be more significant, since it will relate the content to the pace of the music and it will be more difficult to forget the content.

With this video, we can see a good example:

In this example, it is explained four geometric forms (triangle, square, rectangle and circle). It is evident that this resource would be in use in the first cycle of Primary Education. Though it seems to be useless the small songs created for each figure, these are assimilated by the students and, once learned; already they will not forget them. An important aspect of this video is that each of the geometric figures is related to objects of the daily life. This provokes that the pupil is aware of the importance of the mathematics and they do not see it as anything isolated to their daily routine.