Careers involving data and statistics

Quality AssuredCollectionCategory:EngineeringPublisher:Royal Academy of Engineering

These Mathematics for Engineering exemplars provide support for teachers using contextualised mathematics, and help students gain fluency in the use of mathematics for practical problem solving.

This collection also illustrates some of the mathematics in the Advanced Diploma in Engineering, undertaken by engineers.

Quality AssuredCollectionCategory:MathematicsPublisher:Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching

A collection of three resources exploring the mathematics used in air travel. Students explore:

Scheduling of aircraft, the construction of timetables and dealing with time zone differences
Scheduling pilots, using formulae to calculate the working time of pilots
The use of formulae to calculate flight charges accrued by aircraft flying over different countries

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This collection contains a range of teaching materials to support the Maths Careers articles 'Statistically safe sex' and 'How to have a healthy sex life'.

The resource collection includes a link to both articles, resources to explore the statistics and probability behind them.

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This collection contains a range of teaching materials to support the Maths Careers article 'Big Data Careers'.

The resource collection includes a link to the full article, resources to explore large data sets in real-life contexts. Activities include a look at how statistics help us understand the world, a look at the miss-match between real and perceived risk and a debate around whether we should sequence the genomes of a million people in order to find out more about living longer and healthier. Also included is a link to the CensusAtSchool project provides access to large and meaningful data sets for classroom use.

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This collection contains a range of teaching materials to support the Maths Careers article 'The maths of online dating' by Hazel Lewis. The resource collection includes a link to the full article, explores what makes people attractive and classroom resources for teaching algorithms, modeling and correlation as well as ideas for how to incorporate these topics in real-life contexts. Activities include a classroom discussion on attractiveness leading to exploration of the golden ratio, and chance to use an algorithm by applying the scoring system used for the Olympic heptathlon event. Correlation is explored via an activity around choosing favourite songs.

Article about the mathematics behind forensic accounting. Using Benfords law to look at distributions and how unexpected patterns in number sets can be a red flag. A brief look at how this law can be applied outside of financial data is included.

Article about epidemiology and mathematics. In the event of a pandemic researchers rely on mathematical models which predict how a disease might spread. This helps to plan the allocation of resources and different approaches to minimise the spread of the disease.

Quality AssuredCollectionCategory:CareersPublisher:Generation Logistics

Generation Logistics is an initiative from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transportation to demonstrate to students and teachers the relevance of the logistics industry to their lives and the wide variety of career opportunities available.

The resources contained within this collection apply real-life logistics contexts to students' learning in mathematics, science, computing, technology and engineering. They show students the relevance of their learning in these subjects to the real-world.

Article about risk management, a career choice that uses mathematics. All organizations are exposed to risk of one sort of another. For some industries, a qualitative assessment of low, medium and high risk is fine; for others, more complicated mathematical techniques need to be enlisted. A look at the work of actuaries, risk managers in finance, and other career areas.

Quality AssuredCategory:CareersPublisher:OR in Education

A collection of video interviews showing how O.R is used in the real world. These videos, produced by the O.R Society, aim to explain what Operational Research (O.R.) is through a wide range of case studies and can be used to highlight ‘real-life’ applications of mathematics. The videos can also be used to help make career choices as they demonstrate the variety and type of work that can be undertaken in the profession. The videos complement study in many areas of mathematics, especially decision mathematics. The use of OR in travel, logistics, and hospitals is explored.

Article about the use of statistics in medicine. Statistics are used in diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of patients. There are also statistics relating to prevention and risk.

Article about working as a descriptive or inferential statistician. Descriptive statistics involves taking a large amount of data and extracting some type of information or meaning from them. This could be a single number, such as a percentage or an average, or a visual display like a pie chart. In contrast, inferential statistics tries to extrapolate data to reach wider conclusions.

Interview with a medical statistician who studied for an undergraduate maths degree and then moved into medical statistics. The article shows the role this field plays in medical trials for a new drug and a look at the role of the Medicines Control Agency which is part of the Department of Health.

Quality AssuredCollectionCategory:MathematicsPublisher:cre8ate maths

Cre8ate resources explore twelve different employment sectors, and include activities that relate to the industrial or work related aspects of the context. The key characteristic of all the resources is that they link real and significant mathematical thinking with authentic real world applications.

Quality AssuredCollectionCategory:MathematicsPublisher:The Office for National Statistics (ONS)

This resource is designed to help students understand how and why the ONS uses the public’s data to produce statistics. It includes a series of five classroom toolkits centred around an Office for National Statistics (ONS) tool or dataset that relates to a part of everyday life, including the gender pay gap; inflation; the census and understanding population dynamics; health and well-being and business, industry and trade.