Publicación:

Influencia del entrenamiento musical en el desarrollo de las aptitudes numéricas en estudiantes de los colegios Claretiano de Bosa y Patria de Bogotá D.C.

Resumen

This research, from a quantitative type with a simple expostfacto prospective design, points out to determine the difference that could exist, as far as development of numeric aptitudes takes, among students within a range of 15 to18 years old from the Claretiano de Bosa and Bachillerato Patria schools in Bogotá, who have been playing some type of musical instrument for as long as two years, compared with other students who lack of this musical shaping. This relation between music and mathematics has been studied by authors such as Caterall (1998) who analyze the outcomes from a longitudinal research (10 years long) to the National Performance tests applied to twenty five thousand high school students, finding out that students involved in music learning topple in mathematics those students who were not involved in those activities, from this theoretical nourishment draws this research on which the numerical aptitude sub-test from the deferential aptitude test (D.A.T) and the grades concerning with mathematics and music for two full school years -belonging to the students above mentioned- were used to measured the numeric aptitude level between the groups with and without training. When analyzing the outcomes, the null hypothesis, -which stands that no meaningful difference exist in the scores for numerical aptitude between the students from the Claretiano and Patria schools who owned musical training and those who doesn’t- was proved; which means that this outcome goes against the researches conducted in other countries on which this relation is asserted, this contradiction, can be linked to a wide range of aspects such as familiar, educational, cultural and personal factors, that shock deeply in the musical shaping and the numerical aptitude development.