Category: Algebra

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...

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...

The quadratic formula is used often in algebra to solve quadratic equations and in calculus to find zeros of first or second derivatives.  However, it helps to be familiar with how the proof...

Functions are used often in algebra, calculus, probability, statistics, and other fields of study. However, you may have some questions about specific situations for functions. So, what do you...

Function composition is often used in algebra and calculus, and it has many interesting properties. So, what is function composition?  Function composition uses the output of a function as...

Sometimes we get a table of values from an experiment or a data set, rather than a picture of the information.  Often, we can examine in the information from a function table to learn more about...