Posts by JDM Educational Staff

Students across the nation have haunted math teachers with the age-old question, “when are we going to use this in real life?” First, it’s worth mentioning that real life includes time in...

You’ve likely heard of the disorder dyslexia - you may even know someone who struggles with it. Just as some people have a learning disability that affects reading, others have a learning...

Why should we learn algebra? Do you happen to remember a time when math class suddenly changed from numbers to letters? Probably in late elementary school, once students mastered the basics of...

You’ve probably heard the news that teachers don’t stay in their jobs the way they used to. Back in the day, it was relatively common for a person to be a career teacher, that is staying in the...

In math, we’re very used to working with equations in the form y equals something in terms of x. Sometimes, it seems that’s all we do in high school math! We’ve learned that x is called...

Recall that in order for a function to have an inverse function, it must be one-to-one or pass the Horizontal Line Test (HLT). None of the six trigonometric functions pass the Horizontal Line Test...