Maths Resources

General Numeracy

• BBC Skillswise
  Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers
  This site is designed to improve adult literacy and numeracy in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. It’s fairly basic, but simply laid out and well explained. Resources here include factsheets, worksheets and activities/games, and cover topics such as division, rounding and estimating, and fractions.
  
• Mathcentre
  Available at: http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/students.php
  An online mathematics support centre which provides resources to help students make the transition from school-level to university-level mathematics. The site delivers mathematics support materials, free of charge, to students, teachers, lecturers and everyone looking for post-16 maths help. Resources include videos and podcasts.
  
  Numeracy Refresher Booklet:
  http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/students.php/mathematics/numeracy/resources/
  
  Specific resources for ‘Health Sciences and Practice', including drug calcs and graphs for health studies:
  http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/staff.php/health

Specific to Nursing

• Hutton, M., & Gardner H., (2005) ‘Calculation Skills’, Paediatric Nursing, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 1-17
  Available at: http://paediatricnursing.rcnpublishing.co.uk/resources/archive/GetArticleById.asp?ArticleId=678
  A guide for child nurses covering common sense and estimation, mental arithmetic, conversions, fluid calculations.
  
• NHS Lanarkshire, Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Centre, Drugs Calculations Available at: http://www.lanpdc.scot.nhs.uk/calculations/dc.asp
  Practice questions on SI Units, Drug Calculations and IV administration calculations (contains clues and answers).
  
• Nursing Standard, Quick Reference Guide 1 – Numeracy skills
  Available at: http://nursingstandard.rcnpublishing.co.uk/shared/media/pdfs/Quickref1.pdf
  
• Nursing Standard, Quick Reference Guide 2 – Calculating drug dosage
  Available at http://nursingstandard.rcnpublishing.co.uk/shared/media/pdfs/Quickref2.pdf
  
• University of the West of England, Numeracy
  Available at: http://learntech.uwe.ac.uk/numeracy/Default.aspx?pageid=1475
  Walk through examples and explanations on a variety of topics,  including decimals, percentages, SI units and formulae calculations.
  
• Cardiff University, Maths Support, Maths for Health Sciences
  Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/mathssupport/learningresources/mathsforhealth/
  A series of booklets and quizzes. There are also mathstutor tutorials, but these require software.