Math & Statistics

Let’s Start With a Story Imagine you work at a café and earn $15 per hour. As you work more hours, the amount of money you earn grows as well. Every additional hour adds another $15 to your pay. Many situations in everyday life behave like this - when one thing changes, another changes alongside it in a steady and predictable way. This idea is at the heart of what mathematicians call a linear function. ...

A simple look at why ‘average’ doesn’t always mean what you think it means.