The pop songs you love might feel so catchy they’re magic, but their ability to get stuck in your head isn’t fairy dust and sparkles: it’s melodic math. Music researchers use melodic math to refer to ...

Blending music with math learning can help children grasp numbers faster, remember concepts longer, and enjoy the process more. Research shows that rhythm, repetition, and melody enhance memory, ...

Dmitri Tymoczko, professor of music at Princeton, analyzed the connection between math and music Tuesday in a lecture titled “Musical Geometry, Games and Multimedia Art” as part of the Institute for ...

A Texas teacher helped struggling math students find success by integrating music into the curriculum. He's now teaching this method to other instructors. We have a story now about a teacher who used ...

A state bill may run into problems when trying to incorporate music education into middle school math classes. “In the same way that some people may not be math people, math teachers may not be music ...

Thomas Mayfield helped raise test scores and engagement in the classroom, and now he's helping teachers in Fort Worth learn what he did. Thomas Mayfield had a major problem to solve in his fifth-grade ...

We have a story now about a teacher who used to struggle to find ways for his students to like math. But Thomas Mayfield found a way through music. And as NPR's Mia Estrada reports, now Mayfield is ...