One of the subjects I am teaching at the moment is maths in the workplace involving measurement (mainly weight & volume), averages and graphs.  EG: Calculating how much of a product is produced over a period of time, finding the average, and graphing the results.

 

I am (desperately) seeking websites with examples related to factory jobs (or other common unskilled/semi-skilled jobs).  I can find the sites of how to do the basic maths, it�s the workplace (or household) examples I need.

 

If you know of any could you let me know.

 

Cheers

 

Jayho

 

Thanks for your quick reply.

 

Great ideas!  Alas, my subject specifically relates to weight (gm/kg) or volume (ml/l). They did fractions and percentages last year.  The problems in my subject have to be real-life, preferably job related and involve adding/dividing to get average then graphing result. 

 

I�ve run out of puff and can�t think clearly.  And, teaching maths is not my strong point.

 

Maybe I can adapt your pizza idea to meal break sustenance (size of drinks consumed by staff in staff room, or weight of snacks), work out average and graph results, because, we could actually do this in real life if I bring my kitchen scales to class.

 

I could also relate your recipe to a canteen/caf�/food factory situation, calculating for bulk numbers.

 

 

Looking forward to more ideas to ease my desperation.

 

Cheers

 

Jayho

"I could also relate your recipe to a canteen/caf�/food factory situation, calculating for bulk numbers." = great idea :)

you could spice it up by saying how many meals were served, how much each ingredient costs to calculate how much a meal costs and how much people have to pay for the canteen to win money(assuming they have to pay the food lady, the heating etc...)...

and to help them with graphing results you can provide the meals that are served during a nomal week (2 meals per day, with healthy options like veggies, and less healthy options like fries...) and say how many people were served every day what they chose (day 1: 256 people were served, 206 took hamburgers, the rest ate fish,  221 chose french fries, the rest took spinach - day 2: 156 were served, 132 took pork sausages, etc...)
they have to convert the numbers in percentage and them create a graph to compare the different meal options...

i feel like i �m not clear enough... (i was pretty good at maths a long time ago but I would have a hard time teaching maths...)

I �m not sure how much this will help you but have a look

 

I have slept on it and now have a better idea of what I shall do.

 

Cheers

 

Jayho