Maths and Our Health
2014
This learning module provides teaching packs to explore biomedical real-world applications of probability and statistics in decision-making. Each pack provides videos and supplemental materials, including presentations, worksheets, and games.
Topics include:
- “Eating Bacon Sandwiches is Bad for You!” Evaluating Risk
- Epidemics: Modelling with Mathematics
- Life Saving Maths: How Does Vaccination Work?
- The Economics of Health: How Do We Decide?
- The Test is Positive: But What Are the Odds It’s Wrong?
Source:
Maths and Our Health. Motivate, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge 2014. http://motivate.maths.org/content/MathsHealth/index.html