Hey ..:D
can u explain me how are emotions and maths connected? I mean.. do our emotions affect the way we learn maths? or is it that they are not related in anyway?
thnx!
david

A connection between emotions and mathematics? I assume that you mean "a connection between emotion and learning mathematics."

Well, lets see. The only thing that I think should affect the understanding of mathematics is intelligence. Really one's everyday emotions shouldn't effect mathematical understanding at all.

The only exception that I can think of would be in the case of anger or fear, the adrenaline emotions, which interfere with higher mental processes by flooding or system with hormones. In that case, a lack of concentration would lower understanding of mathematical principals.

How I've clarified...something.

David_Becks17
it would be fairly easy to devide the two because of left and right brain use, although
when you look to those with an over-all higher level of intellegence you will find that emotional intellegence is also higher along with the maths.
there are several possible and probable connections between the two based on the way the human mind works and how it is trained/educated.
although the nature of your question is more likely to be addressed better in some of the more advanced neurology theory, along with psychology.
although such things are a bit too advanced for the over all intellegence of what society can deal with at the moment
:)
good question though!

Well... that's a relatively easy question for a pianist...
The answer is, yes, emotions and math are connected. But emotions don't necessarily affect the way you learn math. Of course, if you feel really bad, there will be too much environmental noise and that will affect your math and everything else, for that matter.

But the most significant relationship between math and emotions lies on the fact that all math is done in the right side of the brain, while the emotions on the left. When it comes to piano, for example, piano enhances the connection between those two sides. The brain is divided in those two sides and they are connected by a single organ, which name I've forgot. I think it's the hypothalamus or something like that [correcting myself... now I remember, it is the corpus calossum]. Well... anyways. As greater is this organ, as faster and more intelligent you are. Girls have this organ naturally bigger and more effective than guys. In fact, guys use this organ much less then women.

However, through the study of things such as piano, this connection is enhanced. This happens for two main reasons. First of all, you need a greater hand coordination in order to play piano. So you need to enhance that. Your right hand and your left have to act independently. Each side of the brain control one of the hands. If you play piano and you train your brain, it becomes more and more effective on exchanging information between the two sides, since there must be a connection between them (although they are independent, they have to play certain notes at the same time). Secondly, piano develops both your emotions and your intellect. To interpret the music you need to be emotional. That also helps you getting to know yourself better. Besides that, reading the music sheets, finding the rythm and all this kind of mathematically precise actions develop the right side of your brain.

In other words.... playing piano make you close to a genius (or it really makes you a genius!). ;)

Hey ..:D
can u explain me how are emotions and maths connected?

Sure ;) Take a look at the attachment I have provided. Emotion and maths are very much connected!

Just in case u didn't work it out,

E = emotion
r = rationality
R = religiousness
<FONT FACE="Symbol">j</FONT> = phase term
G = genetic factor
e_s = scientific education (up to present age, p)

As for the connection between emotions and learning math, I can give some experience from tutoring:

Bluntly put, math requires a lot of thinking, and kids want it the easy way: learn for the test and then forget everything. As if what you have learned in 5th grade you won't need in 6th and so on. This may do for many other subjects, but it won't go with math and languages. This is why they are so hard for so many kids, and among the least popular.

I was tutoring a 15-year old girl -- we were supposed to do linear functions: but she couldn't do fractions!! Something she ought to have learned years ago! And she also had problems with simple equations.

So for some kids, math is excrutiatingly stressful because they can't simply "cram" it the way they can other subjects. math requires a kind of thinking and work discipline that the modern school system does not encourage.