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Topical Applications of Mathematics
The Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching provide these resources, developed to emphasise the practical nature of mathematics and its application to real life situations.
Athletics Track - explores the mathematics required in the design of an athletics track.
World Championship for Test Cricket - develops an understanding of the mathematics used to produce the International Cricket Council league table.
Global Warming - students use graphs to model data and make predictions.
Easter Date - uses an algorithm to predict past and future dates for this holiday.
Fruit Machines - explores the probabilities of winning lines and the amounts paid out.
Reading Age Formula - apply different formulae to a selection of texts and consider accuracy of results.
Physical Fitness - uses Gallagher and Brouha Test to calculate fitness index.
National Lottery - explores the probability of choosing winning lines.
Penalty Shoot Out - a simulation which uses random numbers to generate results.
Braille - explores the patterns which form the code used by this system.
EAN Bar Codes - explains the structure, validation and reading of these codes.
Fair Trade - demonstrates the relationship between third world countries and the developed world.
Semaphore- students learn to interpret and code messages.
Carbon Footprint - explores the mathematics behind carbon footprint measurements.
Happy Planet Index - shows how mathematics can raise public awareness of issues.
Heptathlon - student use and apply formulae to convert athletes' results into points.
Old New Year - uses algorithm to establish the day for any given date.
Champions League - aimed at A level students and explores probability and combinations.
Popular Baby Names - illustrates the concepts and strategies for interpreting data.
Genetic Fingerprinting - explores the statistics used in this field.
Darts - investigates some of the mathematics found on a dart board.
Earthquakes - introduces logarithms and their application to the Richter Scale.
Rankings in Sport - students analyse results to compare average and weighted average scores.
Lorenz Cipher Machine - statistical analysis used to break codes during WWII.
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Old New Year
Discovering the day of the week upon which a particular date occurred is the focus of this resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematical Teaching. The Julian and Gregorian calendars, amongst others, are discussed and students are provided with an algorithm, which they use to verify the day of their own...
Champions League
The application of probability, together with combinatorics, is the focus of this A level resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematical Teaching. The 2008 draw for the Champions League provides data for students to investigate the probabilities of English teams being drawn against each other and to...
Popular Baby Names
Trends in the popularity of names is the focus of this resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, which illustrates the concepts and strategies for interpreting data. Because there is no one explanation for the change of popularity of names this resource raises one of the fundamental issues...
Genetic Fingerprinting
The mathematics behind genetic fingerprinting is explored in this resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching. Sketches show, in simplified form, how genetic fingerprinting can be applied to establish paternity and students calculate the probabilities of matching bands from samples.
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