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.
Find out how maths helped Ayantika develop a new material that can help fight climate change.
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
Curriculum focus: Key Stage 3 and Level 3 Core Maths
Topic: Trees for Net Zero and Trees and Carbon Capture
Content:
- Interpretation of data, statistics, graphs, infographics in context
- Critiquing graphs and reading scales
- Analysing and comparing data in order to develop and present a conclusion
- Making assumptions and predictions
- Estimation and proportional reasoning
- Developing a sense of scale of large numbers
Curriculum focus: Key Stage 4
Topic: Problem solving
Content:
- Number sequences
- Communicating and evaluating alternative approaches
- Deriving (general) formulae
- Equivalence of different algebraic expressions
