With her program Muzology, Dr. Lana Israel, memory expert - and unlikely industry insider - is proving that a catchy tune can make math stick for even the most struggling students. The ninth-graders in Shirley Forehand’s classes are terrified of fractions — but they do like pop music. So over the past school year, she played them music videos, though maybe not the kind once seen on MTV. In one, a young man in a brown cap sings, “A fraction’s simplified/When you can’t divide/The numerator and denominator/By the same number on your calculator.”
Billboard magazine features Muzology!
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With her program Muzology, Dr. Lana Israel, memory expert - and unlikely industry insider - is proving that a catchy tune can make math stick for even the most struggling students. The ninth-graders in Shirley Forehand’s classes are terrified of fractions — but they do like pop music. So over the past school year, she played them music videos, though maybe not the kind once seen on MTV. In one, a young man in a brown cap sings, “A fraction’s simplified/When you can’t divide/The numerator and denominator/By the same number on your calculator.”
