Math and Music

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 It's 2am. You're at your study desk with a cup of coffee at your side.
You sailed through Matrices; hit a slight bump at derivatives but managed it through and now are entering the most daunting task of them all: Integration.

Your only sense of motivation: The Hum Honge Kaamyaab Spotify playlist consisting of Lakshya Title Track and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag Rock version on loop.

It's 6am. Congratulations! You successfully fell asleep midway through Partial Fractions!

This is what actually happened to me a day before a Math exam :)
And you can most probably relate to listening to music while doing math too <3

Because musical transposing involves mental adjustment of notes up or down by a specific amount, it shares cognitive elements with math!

Listening to Music while studying Math can be beneficial because, at some level, all music is math. It's about time signatures, beats per minute and formulaic progressions. (Perhaps that's the reason behind the Asian-piano stereotype?)

Research shows that when you listen to music, it activates the same parts of your brain that you use when you work on puzzles involving shapes and time. This is because certain types of music and sounds affect the two halves of your brain in different ways. By choosing specific music, you can stimulate one side of your brain more than the other, which might help create a better balance in how your brain works.

Specifically,
    Right Hemisphere (Your Emotional Side): Classical music, jazz, folk, and songs with expressive lyrics.
Left Hemisphere(Your Analytical Side):  Progressive rock, and music with intricate instrumental arrangements.
Both: Pop songs, well-composed movie scores, and well-balanced classical pieces.

(Oof kaafi theory ho gaya)
Now that you know how it works, let's get to the fun part(and my favourite past-time on Youtube)
Math Parodies.

Here are some of my favourites :)

Alrightos! That was it for today's blog - I think it was too long today haha!
Stay tuned for next week's faltu Friday blog on a similar topic :)
If you enjoyed this blog, please be sure to check these out as well:

Math Anxiety

Signing off,
Kuhu :)

Comments

  1. udiSeptember 22, 2023 at 5:26 PM

    me and math have a love-hate relationship, but me and this blog always have a love-love relationship 🤭💕

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