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Mozart is working his magi several hundreds of years after his death.

The Shanghai local government organized a math camp.

Two groups of students were challenged to solve geometry problems. One group had a Mozart sonata playing in the background, the other did not.

Guess which teams did the best.

The Mozart group saw their scores improve 62% while the other group's average score went up only 14%. 

If schools want better math scores get out the classical musicians. Or is it just Mozart?

Meanwhile....city authorities are playing Bach, Brahms and

The theory is "You mix different types of activities in locations that are crime-ridden to change the composition of the environment," says a psychologist at the Criminal Justice Department at Seattle University.

And if it doesn't work, at least the gang members will get better drug, er, math scores.