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Celebrate Inventors Month with the benefits of music

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Happy Inventors Month! In 1998, the United Inventors Association of the USA (UIA-USA), the Academy of Applied Science, and Inventors’ Digest magazine started Inventor’s Month as a way to celebrate the various contributions of inventors. Inventors make our lives easier from electricity to indoor plumbing to modern medicine to peanut better. The list of top inventors probably includes Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein,
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Putting the Arts in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics

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Music and Math share more in common than just the letter M. In an earlier post, we highlighted three of the ways music supports math learning—counting, spatial awareness, and pattern recognition. Learning the building blocks of math—such as size, measurement, pattern recognition, and counting by rote—start at birth–and the arts naturally engage young children in the learning. From STEM to STEAM In recent years,
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Where are the future scientists? In a music class for kids!

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At first glance, music classes for kids might not seem like the best place to look for future scientists, technology experts, engineers, or mathematicians. Well, look again! New research indicates that an early childhood music class is exactly where we should look. Researchers from Michigan State University recently published a study that found that 93 percent of STEM graduates (college students who majored in
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