Students who consistently choose music courses in high school are likely to show higher levels of mathematics proficiency by grade 12, reports a UCLA study.
While arts education was generally observed to be a factor which improved academic performance, it was also reported that intensive involvement in a single discipline was more valuable than "scattered involvement in the arts".
Music students at Woburn have often done well academically, and many music alumni are now pursuing careers in science, mathematics, physics, and other traditionally unrelated fields.
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Learning about rhythm, pitch, and frequency, critical to the understanding of music, is reportedly helpful in developing other abstract skills.
Part of the National Educational Longitudinal Study in the United States, this research supplements work already done which links an education in music to different types of cognitive development.
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