Relationship Between Music Interest and Math Achievement
´According to our research, there is a significant relatinship between Music Training and students’ Math Understanding and their Math Achievements. Why did not Music Training used on students’ Math Understanding and their Math Achievement in Turkey?
Taken together, the literature review results indicate that music plays a significant role on mathematics achievement. Firstly, when we examined the Spelke’s (2008) research, it was about effects of music instruction on developing cognitive system of math and science. And it was resulted that musical training affects positively on representation and reasoning in geometry and estimation, people who took the education of music and dance are more successful in estimation, number line, map activities and geometrical invariants than others, as well as musicians show the higher performance on the geometrical invariants activity.
In the research article by Rother (2000), has demonstrated that music direction can have a constructive outcome on different regions of learning, in the same way as science and spatial-fleeting thinking. Besides, the art as a whole, when coordinated into a school's educational program, has indicated incredible results in understudy's execution in school and state of mind about school.
When we look at the development of music
education, one of the important development was the Village Institutions
movement that began in 1940.
The major propose of the
Village Institutes was
to carry education every
possible place in Turkey.
The
reliability of the questionnaire included three parts was measured by the test-retest
method. 19
students who study in collage participated in the test.
Because of structure of the
questionnaire, we do not need to use other reliability methods such as
equivalent form method, internal consistency method.
In the process of analyzing data,
descriptive statistical techniques for percentage, mean, median, mode and
frequency will be used by utilizing from SPSS program.
In this process, T-test for
independent samples and one-way ANOVA test will be used for deciding whether or
not there is a meaningful relationship between them by accepting that
significance is in .05 level of confidence.
T-test will be used in analyzing
the relationship between students’ musical interest and mathematics achievements
or scores.
As a result of the study, we concluded that people with high music interest are successfull in mathematics (Calculus I and Calculus II) than others who are not interested in music.
Because music interest is highly effective on mathematic success, education of music should be increasing and qualified in schools. In order to improve cognitive skills, music courses should include musical note information and wide variety of musical instruments.
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