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The document discusses how lack of sleep affects students' academic performance, specifically in mathematics. It states that many students sacrifice sleep due to busy schedules and deadlines, getting less sleep than the recommended 8-10 hours per night. This lack of sleep leads to tiredness in class and difficulty focusing on math lessons. The document reviews literature finding associations between more sleep and higher math grades, and less sleep correlating with lower grades. The researchers aim to study how lack of sleep negatively impacts math performance and how getting proper sleep can improve it.

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Intro and Related Lit Draft (Dejino)

The document discusses how lack of sleep affects students' academic performance, specifically in mathematics. It states that many students sacrifice sleep due to busy schedules and deadlines, getting less sleep than the recommended 8-10 hours per night. This lack of sleep leads to tiredness in class and difficulty focusing on math lessons. The document reviews literature finding associations between more sleep and higher math grades, and less sleep correlating with lower grades. The researchers aim to study how lack of sleep negatively impacts math performance and how getting proper sleep can improve it.

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Introduction

A lot of people namely students struggle with sleep due to their tight

schedules and because of a lot of schoolwork’s thus, they sacrifice precious hours of their sleep

schedule to keep up with their deadlines. Teenagers get between 7 to 7¼ hours of sleep

(Nationwide Children’s Hospital) when their recommended amount should be 8 to 10 hours per

24 hours according to Mayo Clinic (2023). This affects students’ energy levels thus, they are less

active and often tired, this hypothetically affects their academical performance specifically

mathematics and among other things.

Lack of sleep is commonly seen in the classrooms of Maryhill college; due

to the hectic schedules of students their sleep and rest times are often impacted resulting in their

uncontrollable sleepiness during the classes of math and causing some students to miss valuable

discussions and activities. Mathematical performance might be affected by sleep as sleep will

help students maintain cognitive skills, such as attention, learning, and memory (Columbia

University Department of Psychiatry, 2022) which is crucial for mathematics.

According to Oxford Languages sleep is a condition of body and mind that

typically recurs for several hours every night, in which the eyes are closed, the postural muscles

relaxed, the activity of the brain altered, and consciousness of the surroundings practically

suspended, this is different from rest as sleep is important and sleep is also a type of resting.

Students must both have proper rest and sleep imbedded into their schedules, the researchers

would like to give students information on the amounts of sleep and rest they need to maximize

their performance in math.


Proper sleep shouldn’t always be linked to just academics and statistical

figures, it is also important for the quality of life of a student, their mental health, emotions and

energy is just as important as mathematical performance the researchers not only would like to

boost mathematical performance but also students’ quality of life as they introduce the effects

and the importance of sleep for a student’s life and grades. The researchers are aiming to find

solutions to lessen the pressure of proper sleep and give student’s an easier time in and out of the

school and to give them the ability to keep up with mathematical lessons and activities easily

without being exhausted and mentally drained.

Cognitive skills are refreshed or maintained every time you sleep, this is

important for as student as their cognitive skills are used in the daily in multiple ways and in

prolonged periods of time. The researchers aim to answer the negative effects of lack of sleep to

mathematical performance as well as the positive effects of proper sleep.


Related literature

A study on Sleep Duration and Academic Performance Among Student

Pharmacists was conducted by Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy wherein they

found these data: 54.7% of the 364 student pharmacist respondents get less than 7 hours of sleep

a night during typical school weeks and a large majority on the night prior to an examination

(81.7%). Longer sleep duration the night prior to an examination was associated with higher

course grades and semester grade point averages (GPAs). This study proves that there is relation

between sleep and academic performance.

“Hierarchical regression analyses adjusted for age, pubertal status, and

socioeconomic status revealed that longer average sleep time was significantly associated with

higher grades in mathematics” (Lanyi Lin et al., 2020). In their study they examined 80

adolescent girls aged 12-17. They assessed their sleep using an actigraph to assess cycles of

activity and rest over five consecutive weeknights and their academic improvements and or

diminishment. Their study has concluded that sleep duration is associated with academic

performance of adolescent girls in mathematics.

A research that contradicts the previous ones states that there is no

significant difference between sleep quality in achieved and unachieved academic performance,

although they also state that longitudinal studies should be performed to control confounding

factors, “Based on the results of this study and similar studies, further research should be

conducted with a better design”. It is also important to note that among the 102 participants in
the study, 67 of them or 65.7% consumed coffee, 90 or 88.2% used tea, and 1 (1%) took a drug,

caffeine might have had compensation for lack of sleep as it gives increased mental alertness and

physical energy. Another different element in this research is the participants’ age, taking into

account that they are in med school then their age must be around early twenties which is

entirely different from the researchers’ target of teenagers specifically grade 11 students, about

16 to 18 years old (Jalali R et al., 2020).

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