Currently at LearnThruMusic we have created educational songs for English Literature and Maths. Our range of songs can be used to assist with the teaching of the GCSE syllabus or as revision tools.

Demos of all our learning songs are located in the demo section of www.learnthrumuisc.co.uk.

Prior to the official launch of our GCSE Maths learning songs package “GCSE Maths LearnThruMusic” check out an exclusive demo of  an R&B/Hip Hop song that helps you learn about Fractions.

Fractions Demo

We worked with teachers to generate educational lyrics that are based on the GCSE Maths syllabus, specifically in this case on Fractions.

We use professional musicians and producers to ensure the high quality of our music production and young people to ensure that the genre of music is in keeping with current music trends.

Keep your eyes peeled for the release of GCSE Maths Fractions coming soon to LearnThruMusic

A History of Mathematics

GCSE Maths coming soon, featuring learning songs covering 14 topics:

Topics covered

1.       Circles, Area and Volume of shapes

2.       Collecting and Sorting Data

3.       Fractions

4.       Percentages

5.       Powers

6.       Probability

7.       Simplification and Substitution

8.       Pythagoras

9.       Algebra, Substitution and Formulas

10.    Algebraic Graphs

11.   Angles in Circles and Triangles

12.   Scatter Diagrams

13.   Equations’ and Inequalities

14.   Displaying Data

Check out the shop for demos of all our learning songs.

An element of our NEET development workshop focuses on using art and design to improve the employability skills of participant’s. This is achieved by setting an art and design challenge.

Participants have to work as a team against the clock in order to complete the challenge effectively.

Below is a selection of artwork that has been produced from a NEET development workshop that took place in April 2011.

LearnThruMusic NEET Development Workshop Artwork 1

LearnThruMusic NEET Development Workshop Artwork 2

LearnThruMusic NEET Development Workshop Artwork 3

LearnThruMusic NEET Development Workshop Artwork 4

So to give you a head start with your GCSE Maths revision we have put together our LearnThruMusic top 1o FREE GCSE Maths Websites:

1. GCSE Bitesize Maths

2. GCSE Maths Tutor

3. GCSE Maths Revision World

4. Maths GCSE Guide

5. S-Cool GCSE Maths

6. Adams GCSE Maths Revision

7. GCSE Maths Project GCSE

8. GCSE Maths Net

9. Maths Net GCSE Revision

10. GCSE Maths AQA

Don’t forget GCSE Maths LearnthruMusic is coming soon, 14 songs that help you learn and revise key GCSE Maths topics, from Percentages to Powers…

Over the past twelve months we have worked with teachers and professional musician’s to create 14 songs that help GCSE Maths and IGCSE Maths students to learn and revise key topics from the GCSE Maths syllabus.

GCSE Maths LearnThruMusic is set to be released on May 14^th 2011 in time for this year’s GCSE Maths exams.

GCSE Maths LearnthruMusic details the following GCSE Maths revision topics in the form of 14 unique learning songs:

1.       Circles, Area and Volume of shapes

2.       Collecting and Sorting Data

3.       Fractions

4.       Percentages

5.       Powers

6.       Probability

7.       Simplification and Substitution

8.       Pythagoras

9.       Algebra, Substitution and Formulas

10.    Algebraic Graphs

11.   Angles in Circles and Triangles

12.   Scatter Diagrams

13.   Equations’ and Inequalities

14.   Displaying Data

Check out the shop and news section over the coming weeks for demos and free GCSE Maths revision and IGCSE Maths revision tips.

The unique learning programme was designed to increase the confidence and self esteem of the young people who partook, and provided young people with a creative way to demonstrate their key skills.

Skills the young people demonstrated throughout the programme include:

- Working as a team

- Working to strict deadlines

- Creative problem solving

- Working well under pressure

Our research indicates that the event was a success with young people and staff commenting on how much fun they had at the event.

Staff feedback

“A really great experience for all who partook”

Young peoples feedback

“It was awesome, really fun and enjoyable”

“Fun got a lot out of it”

The LearnThruMusic team would like to send a big well done to all who partook.

The unique learning programme was designed to increase the confidence and self esteem of the young people who partook, and provided young people with a creative way to demonstrate their key skills.

Skills the young people demonstrated throughout the programme include:

- Working as a team

- Working to strict deadlines

- Creative problem solving

- Working well under pressure

Our research indicates that the event was a success with young people and staff commenting on how much fun they had at the event.

Staff feedback

“Fun for the young people involved and great learning outcomes”

Young peoples feedback

“Really good, enjoyed, good teamwork, thanks for coming in”

“Amazing”

The LearnThruMusic team would like to send a big well done to all who partook.

The study, reported in Nature Neuroscience, found that the chemical was released at moments of peak enjoyment.

Researchers from McGill University in Montreal said it was the first time that the chemical – called dopamine – had been tested in response to music.

Dopamine increases in response to other stimuli such as food and money.

It is known to produce a feel-good state in response to certain tangible stimulants – from eating sweets to taking cocaine.

Dopamine is also associated with less tangible stimuli – such as being in love.

In this study, levels of dopamine were found to be up to 9% higher when volunteers were listening to music they enjoyed.

The report authors say it’s significant in proving that humans obtain pleasure from music – an abstract reward – that is comparable with the pleasure obtained from more basic biological stimuli.

Music psychologist, Dr Vicky Williamson from Goldsmiths College, University of London welcomed the paper. She said the research didn’t answer why music was so important to humans – but proved that it was.

“This paper shows that music is inextricably linked with our deepest reward systems.”

Musical ‘frisson’

The study involved scanning the brains of eight volunteers over three sessions, using two different types of scan.

The relatively small sample had been narrowed down from an initial group of 217 people.

This was because the participants had to experience “chills” consistently, to the same piece of music, without diminishing on multiple listening or in different environments.

A type of nuclear medicine imaging called a PET scan was used for two sessions. For one session, volunteers listened to music that they highly enjoyed and during the other, they listened to music that they were neutral about.

In the third session the music alternated between enjoyed and neutral, while a functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI scan was made.

Data gathered from the two different types of scans was then analysed and researchers were able to estimate dopamine release.

Dopamine transmission was higher when the participants were listening to music they enjoyed.

Consistent chills

A key element of the study was to measure the release of dopamine, when the participants were feeling their highest emotional response to the music.

To achieve this, researchers marked when participants felt a shiver down the spine of the sort that many people feel in response to a favourite piece of music.

This “chill” or “musical frisson” pinpointed when the volunteers were feeling maxim pleasure.

The scans showed increased endogenous dopamine transmission when the participants felt a “chill”. Conversely, when they were listening to music which did not produce a “chill”, less dopamine was released.

“That is because once we put them in the scanner, if they did not get chills then we would have nothing to measure.

“The other factor that was important is that we wanted to eliminate any potential confound from verbal associations, so we used only instrumental music.

“This also eliminated many of the original sample of people because the music they brought in that gave them chills had lyrics.”

See BBC News for the full article

For full details check out Nature Neuroscience magazine

Rewise Learning and eighteen other digital businesses in the UK had their entrepreneurial talents rewarded at a glittering awards ceremony held in Manchester on Wednesday, 1 December.

Now in their second year, the Digital Entrepreneur of the Year awards are aimed at discovering and rewarding the best businesses on the web and were expanded this year to accommodate a phenomenal number of applications from high-calibre companies. The winners – in categories including Design & Technology, Sustaining Society, Digital Business and E-services, beat off stiff competition from hundreds of web-based businesses who made up an outstanding shortlist of firms that battled it out for the British internet’s biggest awards.

The firm, that develops and provides innovative Educational training resources and services via its website www.learnthrumusic.co.uk, received the Education Entrepreneur of the Year award.

The winners of all nineteen awards were announced at a glittering awards bash at the Palace Hotel in Manchester where after-dinner speaker James Timpson, managing director of key cutting and shoe repair empire, Timpson, offered advice to budding digital entrepreneurs in the audience on how to take a company from good to great with an “upside down” management structure.

Lawrence Jones, managing director of UKFast, the headline sponsor of this year’s awards and one of Europe’s fastest-growing technical companies, said: “It’s been a privilege to be involved in an event that recognises the innovators and entrepreneurs that are changing the face of the net as we know it. We’ve received a record number of entries this year from some pioneering businesses and have been truly inspired by many of them.”