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Genetic Intrigue

Stage: 5

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. . . .

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Diamonds Aren't Forever

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Ever wondered what it would be like to vaporise a diamond? Find out inside...

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What Salt?

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Can you deduce why common salt isn't NaCl_2?

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The Power of Dimensional Analysis

Stage: 4 and 5

An introduction to a useful tool to check the validity of an equation.

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Very Old Man

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Is the age of this very old man statistically believable?

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CSI: Chemical Scene Investigation

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

There has been a murder on the Stevenson estate. Use your analytical chemistry skills to assess the crime scene and identify the cause of death...

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A Different Differential Equation

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Explore the properties of this different sort of differential equation.

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Reaction Rates!

Stage: 5

Fancy learning a bit more about rates of reaction, but don't know where to look? Come inside and find out more...

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Smoke and Daggers

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

We all know that smoking poses a long term health risk and has the potential to cause cancer. But what actually happens when you light up a cigarette, place it to your mouth, take a tidal breath. . . .

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Clear as Crystal

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Unearth the beautiful mathematics of symmetry whilst investigating the properties of crystal lattices

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Inspect Your Gadgets

Stage: 5

Read about the mathematics behind the measuring devices used in quantitative chemistry

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Powerfully Fast

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Explore the power of aeroplanes, spaceships and horses.

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Bessel's Equation

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Get further into power series using the fascinating Bessel's equation.

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Escape from Planet Earth

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

How fast would you have to throw a ball upwards so that it would never land?

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Scale Invariance

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

By exploring the concept of scale invariance, find the probability that a random piece of real data begins with a 1.

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More Bridge Building

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Which parts of these framework bridges are in tension and which parts are in compression?

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Making More Tracks

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Given the equation for the path followed by the back wheel of a bike, can you solve to find the equation followed by the front wheel?

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Global Warming

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

How much energy has gone into warming the planet?

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Big and Small Numbers in the Physical World

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Work with numbers big and small to estimate and calculate various quantities in physical contexts.

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Electromagnetism

Stage: 5

Read all about electromagnetism in our interactive article.

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Designing Table Mats

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Formulate and investigate a simple mathematical model for the design of a table mat.

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Big and Small Numbers in Chemistry

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Get some practice using big and small numbers in chemistry.

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Modelling Assumptions in Mechanics

Stage: 5

An article demonstrating mathematically how various physical modelling assumptions affect the solution to the seemingly simple problem of the projectile.

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Big and Small Numbers in the Living World

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Work with numbers big and small to estimate and calculate various quantities in biological contexts.

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Mach Attack

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Have you got the Mach knack? Discover the mathematics behind exceeding the sound barrier.

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Stirling Work

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

See how enormously large quantities can cancel out to give a good approximation to the factorial function.

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Taking Trigonometry Series-ly

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Look at the advanced way of viewing sin and cos through their power series.

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Magical Maze - 35 Activities

Stage: 4 and 5

Investigations and activities for you to enjoy on pattern in nature.

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Building Approximations for Sin(x)

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Build up the concept of the Taylor series

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Eight Ratios

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Two perpendicular lines lie across each other and the end points are joined to form a quadrilateral. Eight ratios are defined, three are given but five need to be found.

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Which Twin Is Older?

Stage: 5

A simplified account of special relativity and the twins paradox.

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What Do Functions Do for Tiny X?

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Looking at small values of functions. Motivating the existence of the Taylor expansion.

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Geometry and Gravity 1

Stage: 3, 4 and 5

This article (the first of two) contains ideas for investigations. Space-time, the curvature of space and topology are introduced with some fascinating problems to explore.

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Sextet

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Investigate x to the power n plus 1 over x to the power n when x plus 1 over x equals 1.

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Odd Stones

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

On a "move" a stone is removed from two of the circles and placed in the third circle. Here are five of the ways that 27 stones could be distributed.

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Two Regular Polygons

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Two polygons fit together so that the exterior angle at each end of their shared side is 81 degrees. If both shapes now have to be regular could the angle still be 81 degrees?

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Robot Camera

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Could nanotechnology be used to see if an artery is blocked? Or is this just science fiction?

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Bent Out of Shape

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

An introduction to bond angle geometry.

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Problem Solving: Opening up Problems

Stage: 1, 2, 3 and 4

All types of mathematical problems serve a useful purpose in mathematics teaching, but different types of problem will achieve different learning objectives. In generalmore open-ended problems have. . . .

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A Rational Search

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Investigate constructible images which contain rational areas.

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Peeling the Apple or the Cone That Lost Its Head

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

How much peel does an apple have?

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Operating Machines

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

What functions can you make using the function machines RECIPROCAL and PRODUCT and the operator machines DIFF and INT?

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Trig-trig

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Explore the properties of combinations of trig functions in this open investigation.

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Chance of That

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

What's the chance of a pair of lists of numbers having sample correlation exactly equal to zero?

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Advanced Investigations

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Some of our more advanced investigations

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Big and Small Numbers in Physics

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Work out the numerical values for these physical quantities.

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9 Hole Light Golf

Stage: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

We think this 3x3 version of the game is often harder than the 5x5 version. Do you agree? If so, why do you think that might be?

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Few and Far Between?

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Can you find some Pythagorean Triples where the two smaller numbers differ by 1?

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The Invertible Trefoil

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

When is a knot invertible ?

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Alternative Record Book

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

In which Olympic event does a human travel fastest? Decide which events to include in your Alternative Record Book.


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