Health and social care
These sector resources support the teaching of mathematics in the context of health and social care. The resources consist of Accessible Spaces, Getting on and Hand eye coordination
Health and social care | Accessible space
This set of activities involves students in exploring the ways in which their classroom and school can be made wheelchair accessible. If all the activities are attempted, the topic will be an extended one. In these activities students make sense of plans and diagrams through interpreting scale diagrams. The construction of the scale diagram will require accurate measurement, conversion between a range of units and decisions about appropriate scales involving an understanding of proportion. The s
Health and social care | Getting on
Demographic changes are significant for people working on planning provision in this sector. This set of activities requires students to interact with a variety of data sets and to use logical thinking skills to interpret what they find. Providing for the old also involves interpreting scales, calculations and consideration of ratio and proportion.
Health and social care | Hand eye coordination
Health professionals often have to assess a wide variety of attributes including hand eye co-ordination. This topic provides a fun way to understand the concept and to undertake some data handling and analysis. Hand eye co-ordination involves the collection of real data, hypothesis testing and scatter graphs. The extensions may also include the use of a variety of averages.