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This activity challenges you to decide on the 'best' number to use in each statement. You may need to do some estimating, some calculating and some research.
Build a mini eco-system, and collect and interpret data on how well the plants grow under different conditions.
Maths is everywhere in the world! Take a look at these images. What mathematics can you see?
Work with numbers big and small to estimate and calculate various quantities in biological contexts.
What biological growth processes can you fit to these graphs?
How many generations would link an evolutionist to a very distant ancestor?
Analyse these beautiful biological images and attempt to rank them in size order.
Work with numbers big and small to estimate and calulate various quantities in biological contexts.
Scientists often require solutions which are diluted to a particular concentration. In this problem, you can explore the mathematics of simple dilutions
Can you fill in the mixed up numbers in this dilution calculation?
A chance to explore the mathematics of networks as applied to epidemics and the spread of disease.
What is the chance this pea plant will look like its parents?
Could nanotechnology be used to see if an artery is blocked? Or is this just science fiction?
When you change the units, do the numbers get bigger or smaller?
What 3D shapes occur in nature. How efficiently can you pack these shapes together?
Can you work out the parentage of the ancient hero Gilgamesh?
Which dilutions can you make using 10ml pipettes and 100ml measuring cylinders?
Which exact dilution ratios can you make using only 2 dilutions?
bioNRICH is the area of the stemNRICH site devoted to the mathematics underlying the study of the biological sciences, designed to help develop the mathematics required to get the most from your study of biology at A-level and university.
This is the area of the advanced stemNRICH site devoted to the core applied mathematics underlying the sciences.
chemNRICH is the area of the stemNRICH site devoted to the mathematics underlying the study of chemistry, designed to help develop the mathematics required to get the most from your study of chemistry at A-level and university.
This collection of resources is designed for developing STEM at Post-16.
In which Olympic event does a human travel fastest? Decide which events to include in your Alternative Record Book.
Investigate the mathematics behind blood buffers and derive the form of a titration curve.
Explore the rates of growth of the sorts of simple polynomials often used in mathematical modelling.
Several graphs of the sort occurring commonly in biology are given. How many processes can you map to each graph?
An advanced mathematical exploration supporting our series of articles on population dynamics for advanced students.
This is our collection of tasks on the mathematical theme of 'Population Dynamics' for advanced students and those interested in mathematical modelling.
How does the half-life of a drug affect the build up of medication in the body over time?
Use combinatoric probabilities to work out the probability that you are genetically unique!
Sixth in our series of problems on population dynamics for advanced students.
How efficiently can various flat shapes be fitted together?
In this question we push the pH formula to its theoretical limits.
Third in our series of problems on population dynamics for advanced students.
Fifth in our series of problems on population dynamics for advanced students.
Can you work out how to produce the right amount of chemical in a temperature-dependent reaction?
Here are several equations from real life. Can you work out which measurements are possible from each equation?
Which line graph, equations and physical processes go together?
See how differential equations might be used to make a realistic model of a system containing predators and their prey.
Second in our series of problems on population dynamics for advanced students.
An advanced mathematical exploration supporting our series of articles on population dynamics for advanced students.
STEM students at university often encounter mathematical difficulties. This articles highlights the 8 key problems for biologists.
How would you massage the data in this Chi-squared test to both accept and reject the hypothesis?
Dip your toe into the fascinating topic of genetics. From Mendel's theories to some cutting edge experimental techniques, this article gives an insight into some of the processes underlying a fundamental biological discipline.
This problem opens a major sequence of activities on the mathematics of population dynamics for advanced students.
Are these statistical statements sometimes, always or never true? Or it is impossible to say?
A brief introduction to PCR and restriction mapping, with relevant calculations...
Fourth in our series of problems on population dynamics for advanced students.
How many eggs should a bird lay to maximise the number of chicks that will hatch? An introduction to optimisation.
First in our series of problems on population dynamics for advanced students.