Does eating bacon sandwiches increase your risk of getting cancer?
Why are some medical treatments not available on the NHS?
How do epidemics spread, and can we stop them?
Biomedicine provides rich contexts for studying maths. These resources explore various topics related to healthcare and the biomedical sciences, and are aimed at secondary students.
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Disease Dynamics - understanding the spread of diseases
A chance to explore the mathematics of networks as applied to epidemics and the spread of disease.
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Probability and Evidence
A collection of problems exploring how understanding probability is vital in medicine and law.
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How Risky is my diet?
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11 to 16
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Newspapers said that eating a bacon sandwich every day raises the risk of bowel cancer by 20%. Should you be concerned?
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Statins and Risk
Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
"Statins cut the risks of heart attacks and strokes by 40%"
Should the Professor take statins? Can you help him decide?
Should the Professor take statins? Can you help him decide?
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Maths and our Health - Motivate resource packs
These five resource packs, originally produced for the MMP's Motivate project, explore how maths underpins biomedical science.
You can also read more about the role of maths and statistics in the biomedical sciences in these articles on Plus, the free online mathematics magazine.