John Allan - Zoo Vet

Zoo Vet Math Adventures John Allan Meerkats have great eyesight. They can spot predators from nearly 1,000 feet away. CONTENTS NUMERACY WORK COVERED IN THIS BOOK CALCULATIONS: Throughout this book there are opportunities to practise addition , subtraction , multiplication , and division using both mental calculation strategies and pencil and paper methods. NUMBERS AND THE NUMBER SYSTEM: COMPARING and ORDERING NUMBERS: pages 6, 8, 10, 16, FRACTIONS: pages 8, READING NUMBERS IN WORDS AND FIGURES SOLVING REAL-LIFE PROBLEMS: CHOOSING THE OPERATION: pages 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 21, MEASUREMENTS: pages 11, 12, 13, 16, 18, 22, TIME: pages 10, 11, 12, 17, 21, HANDLING DATA: BAR CHARTS: page BAR LINE CHARTS: page USING TABLES/CHARTS/ DIAGRAMS: pages 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 24, 26, MEASUREMENTS: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN UNITS OF MEASUREMENT: page USING IMPERIAL/METRIC MEASUREMENTS: pages 6, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, VOCABULARY (time): page SHAPE AND SPACE: GRID COORDINATES: page Copyright 2020 Hungry Tomato Ltd First published in 2020 by Hungry Tomato Ltd., F1, Old Bakery Studios, Blewetts Wharf, Malpas Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 1QH, UK ISBN 913440 Manufactured in the USA www.hungrytomato.com M ath is important in the lives of people everywhere. Math is used to play games, ride bikes, go shoppingin fact, all the time! It is often an important part of work and vets use math everyday to look after the animals they care for. This book includes real-life data and facts about zoos, the work that vets do, and the ways they help endangered animals to survive.

Practise your math and numeracy skills, and experience the thrill of what its really like to be a vet. Math is Fun MATH ACTIVITIES To answer some of the questions you will need to collect data from a DATA BOX. Sometimes you will need to collect facts and data from the text or from charts and diagrams. You might also need a pen, pencil and a notebook for some of the workings and answers. How does it feel to save an animals life? Grab your medical equipment and find out what it is like to be on call at the zoo, day and night! You will find lots of amazing details about wild animals and the work of zoo vets in fact boxes that look like this. O ne of the hyenas is ill.

It has vomited. The vomit is checked and smells very sweet, and there are pieces of foil in it and a substance that looks suspiciously like chocolate. Someone has thrown chocolate candy into the hyenas enclosure. Many animals, including dogs, can be poisoned by chocolate. A vet tries to treat and support the hyena while it recovers. A Problem with the Hyenas Animal Care Fact Visitors to zoos often throw their own food into the animals enclosures.

Sometimes, they pick leaves from bushes growing outside the enclosure and, without even thinking that they might be poisonous, throw them inside. Notices at zoos asking visitors not to feed the animals should NEVER be ignored. Treating the Hyena Zookeepers take the hyena to the treatment room in the zoo hospital. A thin tube, called a CATHETER, is inserted into a vein in one of the hyenas front legs. The catheter is used to give emergency drugs and to take blood samples for testing. You need to give the hyena fluids to maintain its blood pressure and to keep it from going into shock.

Every hour, you must give it milliliters (ml) of liquid for every pound it weighs . The hyena weighs 60 pounds. How many milliliters of liquid will you give the hyena each hour? How many milliliters of liquid will the hyena get in minute? How many drops of liquid will the hyena get in one minute (1 ml = drops)?