This resource is part of our Where maths meets the world of work series, which showcases the maths used in different careers. Each video is also linked to one or more activities, so your students can get a real taste of what the career may entail.
In this video, you will meet Belle and discover how maths is used in marketing to ensure that the right adverts reach the right people at the right time.
The video and accompanying resources have been designed so that they can be completed in one hour, but there are plenty of opportunities to extend them further or use as part of home learning.
Activities
Data is everywhere and being able to analyse and interpret it is increasingly important, particularly in the world of business. This course will introduce you to some key ideas in data science and provide you with some valuable insights to the career opportunities in this exciting field.
Curriculum focus: Level 3 Core Maths and A level maths
Topic: Free, self-study data science course which uses the A level Mathematics large data sets
Content:
- Introduction to data science
- Pre-processing and cleaning data
- Data Presentation and Visualisation
- The Data Science Cycle
- Introduction to Machine Learning
