What is statistics?

Home Math Resources Skills Statistics What is statistics? What is statistics? Definitions, real-world examples, and everything you need to know to excel in statistics. Author Tess Loucka Published: April 2025 Key takeaways • Statistics is the area of math that deals with collecting, organizing, analyzing, interpreting, and presenting data. • Descriptive statistics involves displaying and […]

What is probability?

Home Math Resources Skills Statistics Probability What is Probability in Math? Let’s make the numbers make sense. Author Tess Loucka Published: March 2025 Key takeaways • Probability is the calculation of how likely certain events are to happen. • The formula for the probability of an event is the number of favorable outcomes divided by […]

What Does Mean, Median and Mode Mean?

Home Math Resources Skills Statistics Mean, Median, & Mode What does mean, median, and mode mean? Let’s make the numbers make sense. Published: Jan 2025 Key takeaways • Mean is the average – Mean is the average of a set of numbers. • Median is in the middle – Median represents the rough middle point […]

How to Find IQR

Home Math Resources Skills Statistics How to Find IQR How to Find IQR Uncover the mystery of the middle with interquartile range. Published: Jan 2025 Key takeaways • A not-so-scary acronym – IQR stands for interquartile range. • Find the middle of the road – IQR is the middle 50 percent of any data set […]