Learning with a math brain

There are many people that will tell you that you need a math brain to be good at math. Another popular saying is that if you're good a math you're good at all of the other concrete type of leanings such as science and spelling. In the 60's brain research came out that stated the right side of your brain is for creativity like art, music, and creative writing. Where as the left side of your brain is for math, science, and logic. Then these scientists started classifying everyone as either right brained or left brained. While it is true that we can be more left or right brain dominant, it doesn't mean that we use only one side or the other. On the contrary, we were given both sides of our brains so that both sides of our brain can work together as equal partners. When both sides are working together, we can think in a whole host of different ways. The only thing this brain research states is that one side of the brain is good at figuring certain things out, and the other side is good at figuring out other things.

When you are performing a math problem, a person is actually using both sides of their brain. Mathematics is too abstract and intricate to be learned using only one side of our brain. If this was the case, we would have no idea how to apply it, or how to do those always confusing word problems. In fact, it has been shown that the people who use math the most: physicist, mathematicians, and engineers all use more right brain figuring than left brain. The left brain helps understand the logic behind math, but to be able to create while using mathematics as your base, that is an ability for the right side of the brain. So, if anyone ever tells you they can't learn math because they are too left brained, explain that if they were that left brained, they'd be in a mental institution. The only thing stopping most people from learning math is themselves.