Category: Applied Mathematics

If you’re considering a career in nursing, read on! Perhaps you think that once you graduate high school, you can leave the math behind. Not so! In practice, nurses use math every day. Keeping your...

Geometry and trigonometry students are quite familiar with triangles. Students study lots of facts about triangles, prove lots of theorems about triangles and generally use triangles for a...

You will see inequalities all the time in mathematics.  However, you might be wondering when you will see them used in real life applications. So, what are inequalities used for? ...

Interest rates are an important topic when dealing with anything related to finances, including loans and investments.  However, we still need to make the distinction between simple and compound...

Velocity is not just a theoretical idea - it is a very a useful concept when applied to many fields, from physics to weather (and much more!)  Having a good grasp of velocity and how it is used...

Growth rates are useful in business for tracking the growth or decline of revenue, cost, profit, and other important measures.  Growth rates are also useful in finance for tracking changes in...