The abstraction ability about natural numbers through playing traditional music for elementary students

Abstract

The ability of music has a positive impact on the balance of thinking. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the musical ability has a direct effect on the ability of abstraction of native numbers of elementary school students at a low level. This is survey research as an evaluation stage for the development of elementary thematic learning models in Kota Bengkulu, Indonesia. The research sample was 95 elementary school students in Kota Bengkulu. The instruments of this research were musical ability tests and abstraction ability test. Data were analyzed through the Lisrel 8.8 test. The results of this study is that musical ability has a direct positive effect on the ability of abstraction of native elementary students to a low level.