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The rush to find treatments for COVID-19 led to a badly flawed clinical trial influencing medical treatment worldwide. What went wrong?
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Would your students prefer to grow edible crops or wrangle with statistics? Here’s a way to combine these activities in a real-world application of statistical analysis.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
You’ll need to put your money on the table for this batch of tricks, then use your scientific knowledge to make ‘cents’ of what happens!
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Discovering how infectious diseases spread may seem purely a matter for medical science – but taking a close look at the numbers can also tell us a great deal.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16;
Around 1.5 billion people worldwide are overweight or obese. Are we just eating too much or can we blame our genes? Here’s how to investigate the genetics of obesity in the classroom.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Sarah Garner and Rachel Thomas consider why well-designed and properly analysed experiments are so important when testing how effective a medical treatment is.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Nataša Gros, Tim Harrison, Irena Štrumbelj Drusany and Alma Kapun Dolinar introduce a selection of experiments with a simple spectrometer designed especially for schools – and give details of how to perform one of the activities.
Ages: 16-19;
Do you have more than the average number of ears? Is your salary lower than average? When will the next bus arrive? Ben Parker attempts to convince us of the value of statistics – when used correctly.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
March 31, 2021 | Issue 52
Clinical trials count on more than statistics
Topics: General science
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March 16, 2020 | Issue 50
Grow your own statistical data
Topics: Biology, Mathematics
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June 13, 2019 | Issue 47
Fantastic feats: magic with money
Topics: Physics, Engineering
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July 3, 2015 | Issue 32
Ebola in numbers: using mathematics to tackle epidemics
Topics: Mathematics, Biology, Health
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February 20, 2013 | Issue 26
The genetics of obesity: a lab activity
Topics: Biology, Health
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September 24, 2010 | Issue 16
Evaluating a medical treatment
Topics: Mathematics, Biology
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April 29, 2010 | Issue 14
Spectrometry at school: hands-on experiments
Topics: Chemistry
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June 6, 2007 | Issue 5
Damn lies
Topics: Mathematics
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