
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. . . .

Can you work out the parentage of the ancient hero Gilgamesh?

What 3D shapes occur in nature. How efficiently can you pack these shapes together?

How efficiently can various flat shapes be fitted together?

Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?

Which exact dilution ratios can you make using only 2 dilutions?

Use your skill and knowledge to place various scientific lengths in order of size. Can you judge the length of objects with sizes ranging from 1 Angstrom to 1 million km with no wrong attempts?

Which dilutions can you make using 10ml pipettes and 100ml measuring cylinders?

Can you break down this conversion process into logical steps?

Practise your skills of proportional reasoning with this interactive haemocytometer.

Can you fill in the mixed up numbers in this dilution calculation?

This is the area of the stemNRICH site devoted to the core applied mathematics underlying the sciences.

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

Estimate these curious quantities sufficiently accurately that you can rank them in order of size

stemNRICH is a section of the NRICH site devoted to the mathematics underlying scientific contexts.

Which units would you choose best to fit these situations?

When you change the units, do the numbers get bigger or smaller?

How many generations would link an evolutionist to a very distant ancestor?