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Deadinburgh biomaths

These lessons use the context of a zombie outbreak and infectious disease to support the teaching of maths skills in science, or to provide a fictional and scientific context for maths lessons.

Each lesson features:

  • a background story that builds on the Deadinburgh show
  • a description of recent bioscience research that could be used to tackle a zombie outbreak

Disease issues covered: 

Route of transmission, infectious organisms, survival assay, calculating speed, disease symptoms, ethics, virology, measuring infectivity, serial dilutions, drug testing

Mathematical methods used:

Presenting data, calculating the mode, percentages, calculating fractions, multiplication, converting percentages to decimals, multiplying probabilities, standard form, rearranging equations, simultaneous equations, handling data

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Subject(s)Mathematics, Science, Biology
Age14-16
Published2010 to 2019
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Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/rxer6t

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