MELODY LEARNING BY MATHEMATICAL MEANS IN THE PRESENCE OF HEARING DEFICIENCY

The article is devoted to the necessity of musical education based on musical literacy in the presence of hearing deficiency. It presents the possibility of musical literacy in integrative learning of mathematics and music in primary education . It introduces a corrective-developing strategy, which builds, by means of graphic images and mathematical dependence, distinguishable representations of pitches .The approbation of this strategy involves six-year-old students with hearing disorders of different degrees, including deafness. They all master musical tones using a musical instrument tuner and mathematical modelling, encode them with integers and build skills to perform a melody by numerical code. The results achieved in the conducted research give reasons to claim that it is possible for students with hearing deficiency using mathematical modeling to acquire musical literacy, which expands the limits of their social integration.