As part of doing a Departmental Honors Project at Rhode Island College, I am creating a blog to document my progress and for everyone else to follow along as I make new discoveries. As a Mathematics major, I am leaning towards seeing how mathematics impacts the mind. I am curious to see how the use of mathematics affects the memory process and/or our thinking process. I know for me, I feel like math has made me more of a logical thinker - I think things through and think about the realities and consequences of certain actions. At my house, my mom and I used to love doing Sudoku puzzles, which are math involved and require a lot of thinking and deducing. I'm curious to see if this is just coincidence or if there is something about math problems that strengthens this type of thinking.
