by Jason Marshall A few weeks ago I had a Twitter conversation with the former host of QDTs Modern Manners Guy, Trent Armstrong, in which Trent said something along the lines of: I've always wondered how to tell how fast a football player is going ba...
by Jason Marshall In todays article, were wrapping-up our introductory series on fundamental statistics by talking about how knowledge of statistical quantities like the mean and standard deviation can help you understand the significance of the late...
by Jason Marshall In recent articles, weve talked about two methods of calculating average values, the mean and the median, and weve talked about some everyday uses for them such as how to use median averaging to get better photos. But thats not all...
图片 by Jason Marshall Some math is functional. Some math is fun. And some math is simply stunning. If that last description sounds improbable to you, then today just might change your mind. Because now that weve covered enough ground, were going t...
图片 by Jason Marshall Its not often someone suggests that knowing some math could make you the life of the party, but thats exactly what Im going to do. Yes, a properly timed delivery of a few fun facts about the famed Fibonacci sequence just migh...
by Jason Marshall Weve spent the last few articles building our numerical vocabulary from the ground up. Today, were going to talk about something that sounds hard, but is actually pretty easy...and very useful too: the commutative property of additi...
by Jason Marshall Weve now talked about three methods for calculating average values: the mean, median, and mode (affectionately known as the three Ms). So, are we done? Is that everything we could ever want to know about interpreting average values?...
by Jason Marshall In the last few articles, weve talked about fractions and percentages, and soon enough well see that these ideas naturally lead us into the world of decimal numbers. But before we head down that path, lets take a quick detour to tal...
图片1 图片2 by Jason Marshall In the last article, we discovered that integers alone are not sufficient to fully describe the world around uswe need the fractions existing between the integers too. (In learning that, we also learned that fraction...
by Jason Marshall Lets kick things off with a bit of a strange question: If you were asked to walk up two stairs and then immediately back down three, how would you describe the total number of stairs youd climbed relative to where you began? Do any...