Duncan+M14

Duncan M 2013-2014
 * THE STUDY OF WHETHER OR NOT MUSIC AFFECTS THE HUMAN ABILITY TO DO MATH**

The purpose of this experiment was to see if listening to music affected the ability to do math. Each sense has a different part of the body and in these parts of the body there are sensory receptors that send information to the brain to process. 5 students were taken and asked to complete 5 different algebraic tests in 5min while listening to different types of music for each test. It was found that while doing the algebraic math test yellow paper significantly decreased scores and with any different color of paper the average wasn’t as good as it was with standard white paper. This happened because the brain did a worse job processing the distracting colors of paper and the math problems than it did just processing the math problems on simple white paper that it was used to seeing.
 * ABSTRACT**

In the future this experiment could be done in a way where the tests were done in a different order for each subject. this would allow the factor of the students getting better as they took more tests to go away. A future experiment that could be done would be if the color of paper affects the ability for humans to do geometry. This would help people further decide what color of paper to use when testing students on different kinds of math.
 * EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS**

To read the complete ISP Paper for this experiment, click on the PDF file link below.