Matemática e estatística para os cursos técnicos em saúde

Abstract

This work aims to present proposals that facilitate the teaching of mathematics and statistics for technical courses in health, whether content within the scope of secondary or higher education. Historically, these courses present greater difficulty in an area of exact sciences, but more and more understanding of this area is necessary for health students, whether to understand exams and blood counts, drug calculations and drip, food calculation, specialized software or registration information, between others.Before the COVID-19 world pandemic, students in this area already had difficulties in interpreting and understanding the data they came across, but during a pandemic it was even more necessary to understand these professionals in matters involving mathematics and statistics, such as interpretation of z-Score quantity and its percentiles, moving average or inclusion of data in the DATASUS system, for example. Even now with applications and software that specifically calculate what the technician needs, understanding them in the calculation is not indispensable. On the contrary, the need for clarification on each subject will increase. These problems in the reasoning of drug calculations, anthropometrics are due to the fact that, in addition to the lack of domain of health professionals in unit conversion, a simple and compound rule of three, directly and inversely proportional, as not everyone follows the system. International unity, nor to the British system, which makes it even more difficult. This work brings some teaching options in mathematics, statistics and programming, which aims to simplify these matters for the understanding of students, whether in a professional’s daily matter or in matters that need a higher-level load. For this, the work brings options such as games, recreational activities, examples, among others.