Mind Institute Spatial Temporal (ST) Math
This grade-specific non-verbal math program offers activities at many levels to reinforce and teach math skills to k-5 students. Creekside students work at their own pace in the computer lab while the teacher monitors their work. Once the students are logged in, they begin to work on a very structured set of skills that match their grade level math standards. This program supplements our Creekside traditional math program. The music component (keyboard lab) works with the math software to increase students’ spatial-temporal reasoning ability (the skill to visualize problems in space and time).
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Piano Keyboard Lab
A visual introduction to reading musical notation and playing piano begins in Kindergarten. Music has a mathematical architecture. When students learn music, they also learn to recognize musical patterns and symmetries to understand and use concepts of fractions. The Mind Institute’s music curriculum is uniquely designed to enhance the student’s spatial temporal reasoning ability which is used by the math software portion of the program to illustrate and teach standard math principles. The MIND institute believes that this program will give all children, regardless of socioeconomic background, the basic musical experience to improve their math skills, as well as extend their interest and skills to other instructional music programs. This year’s PTA is working on raising funds to help purchase the Math Software portion of the program. The Math software consists of computer games that involve no text and are non-language based. Therefore, students from many backgrounds can achieve math success even before becoming proficient in reading English. To learn more about the program and to give the math software a try, visit www.mindinst.org.
Ms. Jolene Elconin, under the direction and supervision of Mr. Malcom and classroom teachers works in our Piano Keyboard Lab. Students are receiving 15 minutes of keyboard instruction once a week after eating lunch for 20 minutes. After their short practice, the students return to the playground for 15 minutes of playtime before returning to class. Once a week, the students return to the keyboard lab with their classroom teacher for additional practice.