Maths and Health: multimedia resource packs for schools linking the biomedical sciences to the Key Stage 3/4 mathematics curriculum (360G-Wellcome-092225_Z_10_Z)

The project will produce high-quality, topical multimedia resource packs aimed at Key Stage 3/4 school students and their teachers, providing stimulating, engaging material that demonstrates the application of specific mathematical topics in real-world biomedical contexts. This project will support learning about the biomedical sciences through introducing them into the mathematics classroom, encouraging school audiences to engage with the biomedical sciences from a new perspective. The project also aims to make direct links between the Key Stage 3 and 4 mathematics curriculum and the biomedical sciences, encouraging interdisciplinary and cross-curricular work. The multimedia resource packs will provide explanatory materials and resources, including video clips, Powerpoint presentations and teacher guidance notes, introducing biomedical science topics at a level appropriate for a KS3/4 audience and designed for use within the constraints of a timetabled mathematics lesson. The resources will include activities designed to engage pupils in collaborative investigative and problem-solving tasks, and to encourage discussion and debate. Pupils will be encouraged to think about the methodologies of applying mathematics to real-life situations, and consider and debate some of the ethical and social issues that may arise in these contexts. The project will help KS3 and 4 students to develop a more critical and informed understanding of the mathematical basis ? e.g. probability, or the use and presentation of statistics ? underlying information on medicine, healthcare and the biomedical sciences. Through investigative projects in which pupils must apply their mathematical skills within biomedical contexts, the project aims to increase students? mathematical abilities, confidence and transferable skills.