The Daily Times – Noel Lyn Smith
“The distinctive sounds of violins will travel through Navajo Technical University this week during a workshop for children that integrates music and math. The class, which started today, is organized by the Heartbeat Project, a collaborative effort by Ariel Horowitz and Leerone Hakami, both 19-year-old violin performance majors at The Juilliard School in New York City. “Our main goal is to provide arts education for this community and to combine that with math education. …Without math, there would be no music,” Horowitz said. The class also demonstrates how math is “super applicable” to different aspects of life, she added.”(more)