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 * TITLE- TESTING IF MUSIC AFFECTS HOW FAST/ HOW MANY MATH PROBLEMS PEOPLE DO **

2012-2013
This experiment tests if music effects how fast/ how people complete math problems. It is hypothesized that the students who do not listen to music do more/ faster math problems. Students were placed individually in a quiet room. They sat at a desk, and in front of them was a sheet of paper flipped upside down. These students were timed, to see how many math problems they could complete in a minute. Then another group of students were individually placed in a room. The students completed the same task as the other group. This time however, the students listened to Gunman style while doing the problems. The results were then recorded. The results prove/ show that people who do math problems while listening to music complete less math problems and get less correct. The people who did not listen to music all together completed 32 problems and got 31 of them correct. The students who listened to music completed 29 problems and got 28 of them correct.
 * ABSTRACT **

EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS
====There are many more improvements that could be made in following experiments. One of the improvements that would be made is to extend the amount of time that the experiment is completed. The amount of time would be extended from the time of one minute to complete the math problems, to five minutes. This would be done because extending the time would allow the students that complete the experiment to do more problems, there for having a more accurate solution/ answer to the question. Another improvement that would be made is to add more different speeds of music. This would be done to see if the speed of the music effects the speed of how fast the math problems are solved.====

**FUTURE EXPERIMENTS**
====The first experiment that would be done in the future would be to extend the time of one minute of students completing the problems to five minutes. This would be done to allow the students completing the experiment to have more time to complete more problems. This would also allow the solution/ answer to the problem or question to be more accurate and complete. The next experiment that would be done would consist of faster types of music. This would be done to see if the speed of music effects how fast students complete the math problems.====

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