After I decided to focus on 5th graders so my thesis could be part of a collaboration with an Engineering Department project, I looked up the Common Core teaching standards for 5th grade. ...Apparently a huge chunk of that standard curriculum is taken up with fractions and understanding proportional relationships between numbers, e.g. understanding why 3/4 = 6/8 and using that information functionally.
Sounds like the kind of math I do literally every time I sit down to write something on the piano. That worked out nicely :)
http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/5/introduction
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