Starter for Ten Learning Activities

This set of learning activities supports learners to:

•Become more aware of how mathematics can contribute to successful completion of vocational tasks.

•Reflect on their personal mathematical learning experiences and identify some engaging starting points for their future learning.

•Become more engaged in and enjoy mathematical activity.

•Become more aware that mathematical ideas and techniques which are relevant in their personal lives can also be useful vocationally (and vice versa).

•Develop specific mathematical skills and understanding.

•Develop confidence in their capacity to learn and use mathematics.

Many of the learning activities are readily adaptable for use in a range of vocational areas; and some which are generic are usable directly with any vocational area because the learners’ responses will be grounded in that area.

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Attitudes at Work

This activity combines the learning of mathematics with reflection about attitudes to work. Students receive a set of cards, each card having a number on one side and a letter on the other. The teacher chooses appropriate numbers and letters to fit with the ability level of the students and the area of study....

Feeding the Cows

This mathematical activity provides students with the opportunity to solve a realistic animal care problem and become active problem-solvers. Students are encouraged to make a mathematical model of a real-life situation, identifying and incorporating relevant factors, obtain information relevant to the problem,...

Food for Thought – The Eat Well Plate

The everyday context of food serves as a vehicle for engaging learners in exploring the mathematical ideas of ratios, percentages, fractions, and pie charts which are useful in their vocational areas. Students are asked to agree the main food groups that might be suitable for a healthy diet and then represent the...

Helicopter Rescue

In this problem the learners, acting as a helicopter-rescue crew, are asked to rescue a casualty and get them to hospital. The teacher chooses the challenge level by setting the values of some variables. Students will represent and analyse a problem mathematically, interpret and communicate solutions. Use specific...

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