Reflection The pain and magnet project provide a different aspect about math I didn’t know. This project was rating a patient pain off, of magnets. I didn’t even know that was possible nor did I know how to even score a patient’s pain level. One thing that I took away from this project is the power of positive thinking. These statistics support the research that magnets do help relieve pain. In all of the studies and tests where the magnet treatment was used, patients being treated with magnets reported less pain than the patients receiving the placebo. The magnet patients had less pain than before. It also showed a decrease in pain from the pre to the post testing to show that the magnets did help relieve pain. This project was great to measure a patient’s pain, but how do we really know if their pain score is really a 10 or a 1. The pain scores are difficult to measure. What is a 10 to someone, could be a 2 to someone else That comes back to the power of positive thinking. A patient could believe their pain is lessoning because of the magnet but in reality,there couldn’t be any pain at all. This is a good study, it works well to test unknown theories without bias and helps provide extensive evidence to either support or deny the hypothesis. The study is successful and well developed to use for this kind of research. I think the study is based on how the patients feels and their own rating of the pain. Some people don’t understand a pain scale sometimes, and just pick a number. Pain levels are different depending on every individual. Some people are more sensitive than others. It was an interesting study, but it doesn’t prove that magnets relieve pain. What I took away from this project, is that Math just isn’t numbers and equations. Math is used for a variety of things.