how does sleeping relate to math?

Question

project for math

Answer 1

This isn't about math, per se, but about learning. It would certainly apply to the learning of math. This is from:
Snooze... or Lose!: 10 "No-War" Ways to Improve Your Teen's Sleep Habits by Dr. Helene A. Emsellem, M.D., with Carol Whiteley

This info is from 4 The Sleep-Learning Link: Why All-Nighters Don't Work

Have you ever used the expression “I’ll sleep on it”? Often, when we have a big decision to make or need to figure out how to do something, we give ourselves more time to think by waiting until the next day to give our answer. But waiting until the next day doesn’t just let us put off making a decision. Sleeping on the issue also gives us the time we need to learn about and understand it so that the answer becomes clear.

Just as a good night’s sleep helps us fight infection, stabilize our mood, lower our stress, and look better, according to recent research it also lets us organize, process, and understand the information we took in during the day—in other words, learn. While we’ve known that sleep repairs and refreshes the body, we now know that it also has a significantly positive effect on learning and memory.

This evidence, which has been well documented only since the beginning of this century, has enormous importance for everyone but especially adolescents, because they spend a huge portion of their waking hours involved in some kind of learning, from chemistry to a second language to perfecting their soccer skills to driving a car. We used to think that that kind of learning took place only while you sat with your nose in a textbook or on the soccer field or while a parent sat beside you gripping the door handle while you stalled the car in the middle of the intersection. But now it’s clear that during the night we consolidate the information we took in during the day and make it our own.

Not only does it cause us to function at a much lower level, it also causes us to learn at a much lower level. For teens that can mean not only getting C’s instead of A’s but forgetting how to execute a football play, play a classical piano piece, recreate the perfect sunset on canvas, or do complex math problems on the SAT. According to a report by the American Academy of Pediatrics, it can also mean that students are less motivated to do their best at school and less receptive to teaching. As one teen said, “I miss out on a lot of details because I lose focus and the ability to concentrate when I’m severely sleep deprived. I’m also quite forgetful when I’m tired.”

I am going to read the whole book. I have two teenagers who don't believe that sleep is a necessary part of their lives. I think I can learn a lot from this book.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Kayla,
If this is a question for a math class, they may be looking for an analogy. . . like gaining math skills is like sleeping; they both are valuable preparations for life. . . or they both are valuable preparations for clear thinking.. .perhaps they both take discipline...One does sleep better if one goes to bed.

Interesting project, Kayla! Good luck!

Answer 3

You could do a project by relating sleep time and amount of stress through data organization?
You could do a project by relating sleep time and grades?

Answer 4

Sleeping makes you concentrate better which is why it is said that in the morning your brain is much more fresh and is more capable of retaning information than during night time.

Answer 5

I would say the deepness of your sleep is like a parabolic function.

Answer 6

LOL too much math makes me sleepy! :)
Sorry, couldn't resist.

Answer 7

i don't even own if it is, and if at all it is then itz b/c u aren't tried when u do a problem and like algebra u need to no all this formilaz 'n all

Answer 8

sleep enough hours and you will retain better the information

Answer 9

you can put it on a pie chart you can put it on percentages etc.

Answer 10

sharp and elert for it next day. my opion?