Abstract:
The objectives of this research were to design activities to enhance intelligence in mathematics based on mathematical model theory, and then to study the effect of the developed activities on mathematical intelligence. The subjects were 160 primary students Watphlongchangphueak school, Rayong province. They were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups, each group composed of 80 people. Research instruments included Mathematics Intelligence Training (MIT), the Mathematics Intelligence scale, and a brain wave recorder: Emotiv; Epoc. Data were analyzed by using a two-way ANOVA.
The results were as follows:
1) The mathematics intelligence activities developed consisted of one MIT program module. The training period was two times a day, 20 minutes per session for 10 consecutive days.
2) After training, the experimental group using the MIT program showed an increase in mathematical intelligence. However, there was no interaction effect between gender and scores on the mathematical intelligence scale. Moreover, no difference in mathematical intelligence scores was observed between genders, but a difference was found between groups with high and low mathematical intelligence levels at a significant level of .05.
3) Regarding the electroencephalogram (EEG) in primary school students after using the MIT program, there was an interaction effect of gender and mathematical intelligence scale scores on the EEG frequencies of the lower beta and the alpha bands at the frontal electrode sites: AF3, F7, F3, F4, F8 and AF4, at the parietal electrode sites: P7 and P8, while at the theta band, interaction effect was observed at the frontal electrode sites: AF3, F4 and AF4 and in the upper beta band at the frontal electrode site AF4.