“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences form counting without being aware that it is counting”     Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 – 1716)

I was intrigued to hear that the maths department at MGS are developing an initiative where they hope to coordinate with other departments about those areas of their subject which have a mathematical component. Aside from the obvious cross curricular benefits, there is a second reason behind this initiative. The idea is to check that, where we refer to the maths of any area in our own subject, we avoid confusing pupils by sticking to the same procedures they themselves would be using in a formal maths class i.e. offering resonance and not interference.

I threw down a few headings and ideas and passed them onto the Music link, Adrian Marchant.  Just a few moments blasting away in a mind-mapping programme allowed quite a few ideas to surface under these general headings (in no particular order): formula; proportion; inverse proportion; inclusive counting; percentage; intervals; subdividing; transposition; division (of the scale); the law of diminishing returns and Venn diagrams.

I’ll post a little more on this when things begin to take shape.

Although a local, as opposed to national initiative, this reminds me of Language Across The Curriculum, the evaporation of which strikes me as a loss.