Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

A simple random sample is a subset of a statistical population where each member of the population is equally likely to be ...

New research is significantly revising a widely cited evolutionary model, the Inhibitory Cascade Mode (ICM). Benjamin Auerbach, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the ...

In this video I will show you how to complete the square by working through 28 different examples. We will focus on basic completing the square problems when a=1. I make short, to-the-point online ...

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day. No matter where you look, a bell curve is close by. Place a measuring cup in your ...

In this video, I will show you how to use direct variation to help determine the missing variable, as well as how to determine if an equation is an example of direct variation or not. For an equation ...

A blizzard is a real test of the social contract. Nature dumps 12 to 18 inches of inconvenience uniformly across an entire community and leaves it up to you and your neighbors to sort out the mess.

Remainder. Product. Algorithm. Ordered pair. Seemingly jargony words and phrases like these, referring to specific math concepts, might seem complex for elementary school students to grasp. But ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

Data transformation plays an important role in transforming a non-linear association into a linear one, making patterns easier to interpret and analyse. Methods such as squared, logarithmic, and ...