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Being Safe at Work
Many vocational qualifications include units relating to health and safety. This context can be used to support skills development work involving interpreting bar charts and pie charts. The resources in this activity are designed so that learners should be able to: *Understand and interpret bar charts and pie...
Calculating Scales for Scale Drawing
Learners are confronted with scales in a range of situations. They might be required to make a scale drawing when planning a nursery or a computer room, or designing a stage set. Construction and the built environment and Engineering learners will often be required to interpret scale drawings in the course of...
This collection contains three case studies, each of which details the experiences teachers had when engaging in a project to integrate a mathematics topic into a vocational area of study. The case studies feature: • Integration of interpretation of data into an It course • Identifying mathematics in the workplace...
This collection of resources cover a number of challenging topics which are commonly used in a range of vocational courses. The topics covered are: • Choosing Units: Capacity, Length, Weight, Temperature • Using Millimetres and Metres • Converting Between Metric and Imperial Units • Understanding Ratio •...
Choosing Units, Capacity, Length, Weight, Temperature
Knowing which units to use to measure capacity, length, weight and temperature is essential for learners to function successfully in a working environment. In this activity learners are asked to concentrate on using at least three different types of unit and to identify where they are used in the workplace. The...
Collecting and Interpreting Data
This resource contains four activities with a common theme. Each activity can be used individually or can be linked together. Learners would benefit if the smaller units contained within each activity were delivered consecutively, with the teacher ensuring that the overall session coverage is achieved.
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This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
Converting Between Metric and Imperial Units
Metric units of measurement are widely used in Europe, including the United Kingdom. However, there are occasions when knowledge of imperial units is useful. This may occur: *When dealing with a customer in the United States (where imperial measures are used, although they sometimes differ from UK measurements) *...
This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
Data for IT
This case study features Peterborough Regional College IT department and two members of staff who took part in the project; an IT teacher and the Subject Learning Coach for Mathematics. They chose session S5 Interpreting bar charts, pie charts and box and whisker plots from the Improving Learning in Mathematics (...