Abstract: This study investigated the effects of television and radio distraction on cognition task performance. Participants included 46 mathematics education students. These students were exposed to 3 different conditions, being silence, a popular music on radio and a football match on television, while working on a test in mathematics. The results showed that though both music and television distractions had effect on performance; television had more negative effect on performance than music. Hence, Mathematics as a subject needs to be studied in a conducive environment.