Posts by JDM Educational Staff

Venn diagrams are used throughout math, science, and other disciplines to express ideas in a visual way.  Once you know what they are and why to use them, you can figure out how to solve...

Constants, variables, and coefficients are important concepts when we learn algebra.  Although separate ideas, they are related in important ways, and it helps to understand how they are...

You will often see both linear and quadratic functions in science and math courses.  However, it is helpful to see the differences between them compared side-by-side. So, what is the...

Many of the distributions we work with in real life will be somewhat skewed, without the symmetry that we see in a normal distribution. So, what is a skewed distribution?  A skewed...

Standard deviation is a measure of spread that helps us to interpret data.  Together with the mean, standard deviation can tell us a lot about the data, and the units can also help us to...

Squares and circles are both important shapes in geometry, with useful applications in many disciplines.  Squares and circles have some differences, but they have some things in common as...