Florida Intercultural Academy
1704 Buchanan Street
Hollywood, FL 33020
Phone: 954-924-8006
Fax: 954-924-8044
Academic Effect of Music on ChildrenSome studies have found that music instruction can also affect certain mathematical abilities. Researchers compared the proportional reasoning scores of several groups of children (ages 7 to 9 years), including one group who received computer-generated spatial-temporal training alone and another group who received the same spatial-temporal training coupled with piano keyboard instruction (Graziano, Peterson, & Shaw, 1999).
The proportional reasoning of the children was then tested. Although both groups
scored higher than a control group, the group that included piano training scored
significantly higher than the group that did not. 
A more recent study found that at-risk children who received two years of individual keyboard instruction scored higher on a standardized arithmetic test than children in control groups, including a group that received computer instruction to rule out a possible Hawthorn effect (Rauscher & LeMieux, 2003).
Children who received singing instruction also scored higher than controls.
Children who received instruction on rhythm instruments performed best on a mathematical reasoning task.
Open enrollment for the 2010-2011 school year now open.
Florida Intercultural Academy will accept applications for grades Kindergarten through 6th grade.