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stemNRICH - Applied Mathematics
Stage: 3 and 4
Challenge Level:
THESE PAGES AND THE RESOURCES CONTAINED WITHIN ARE UNDER DEVELOPMENT - PLEASE CONSIDER ONLY WITH CAUTION
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Welcome to the Mathematics section of
stemNRICH - secondary
. This contains mathematical activities for students aged 11-16 designed to complement and enhance the study of science and technology at secondary school. For more advanced activies, see the
core scientific mathematics
and
advanced scientific mathematics
sections of stemNRICH.
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Stage 3
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Certainly approximate
Can you rank these curious physical quantities in order of size?
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Lining up for line graphs
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Fill me up
See how quickly the level of liquid rises in these vessels.
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Reaction timer
This problem offers you two ways to test reactions - use them to investigate your ideas about speeds of reaction.
Stage 4
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Get in line
Link together the physical processes with their equation and graphs. Discuss the mathematical modelling assumptions made.
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Speedo
What can we know for certain about a car journey where we infrequently looked at the speedometer?
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Guessing the graph
Can you suggest a curve to fit some experimental data? Can you work out where the data might have come from?
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How do you react?
To investigate the relationship between the distance the ruler drops and the time taken, we need to do some mathematical modelling...
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Mach attack
Think about breaking the sound barrier.
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David and Goliath
Can you find the relationship between strength and size from this data taken from weightlifting?
Mixed stage 3/4 science/maths
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