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Speedy Sidney

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Two trains set off at the same time from each end of a single straight railway line. A very fast bee starts off in front of the first train and flies continuously back and forth between the. . . .

Scientific Measurement

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Practice your skills of measurement and estimation using this interactive measurement tool based around fascinating images from biology.

Speed-time Problems at the Olympics

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to race against Usain Bolt?

A Question of Scale

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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?

Triathlon and Fitness

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The triathlon is a physically gruelling challenge. Can you work out which athlete burnt the most calories?

Investigating the Dilution Series

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Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?

Approximately Certain

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

Place Your Orders

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Can you rank these sets of quantities in order, from smallest to largest? Can you provide convincing evidence for your rankings?

How Do You React?

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To investigate the relationship between the distance the ruler drops and the time taken, we need to do some mathematical modelling...

Alternative Record Book

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

Electric Kettle

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Explore the relationship between resistance and temperature

Olympic Measures

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These Olympic quantities have been jumbled up! Can you put them back together again?

Big and Small Numbers in Biology

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

More or Less?

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Are these estimates of physical quantities accurate?

Biology Measurement Challenge

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

Analyse these beautiful biological images and attempt to rank them in size order.

Investigating Epidemics

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Simple models which help us to investigate how epidemics grow and die out.

Immersion

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Various solids are lowered into a beaker of water. How does the water level rise in each case?

Olympic Records

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Can you deduce which Olympic athletics events are represented by the graphs?

Robot Camera

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

Big and Small Numbers in the Living World

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

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

Fill Me up Too

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In Fill Me Up we invited you to sketch graphs as vessels are filled with water. Can you work out the equations of the graphs?

Epidemic Modelling

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:

Use the computer to model an epidemic. Try out public health policies to control the spread of the epidemic, to minimise the number of sick days and deaths.

Back Fitter

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10 graphs of experimental data are given. Can you use a spreadsheet to find algebraic graphs which match them closely, and thus discover the formulae most likely to govern the underlying processes?

Maths Filler 2

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Can you draw the height-time chart as this complicated vessel fills with water?

Nutrition and Cycling

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Andy wants to cycle from Land's End to John o'Groats. Will he be able to eat enough to keep him going?

Weekly Challenge 48: Quorum-sensing

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This problem explores the biology behind Rudolph's glowing red nose.

Choose Your Units

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

Which units would you choose best to fit these situations?

What's That Graph?

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Can you work out which processes are represented by the graphs?

Counting Dolphins

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How would you go about estimating populations of dolphins?

Does This Sound about Right?

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Examine these estimates. Do they sound about right?

Maths Filler

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Imagine different shaped vessels being filled. Can you work out what the graphs of the water level should look like?

Genetics

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

A problem about genetics and the transmission of disease.

Fill Me Up

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Can you sketch graphs to show how the height of water changes in different containers as they are filled?

Bigger or Smaller?

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

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

Chocolate Cake

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

If I don't have the size of cake tin specified in my recipe, will the size I do have be OK?

Guessing the Graph

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

Can you suggest a curve to fit some experimental data? Can you work out where the data might have come from?

Make Your Own Pencil Case

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

What shape would fit your pens and pencils best? How can you make it?

Isometric Drawing

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Explore the properties of isometric drawings.

Perspective Drawing

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

Explore the properties of perspective drawing.

Food Chains

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

When a habitat changes, what happens to the food chain?

Air Nets

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

Can you visualise whether these nets fold up into 3D shapes? Watch the videos each time to see if you were correct.

Toad in the Hole

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Is it cheaper to cook a meal from scratch or to buy a ready meal? What difference does the number of people you're cooking for make?

Truth Tables and Electronic Circuits

Stage: 2, 3 and 4

Investigate circuits and record your findings in this simple introduction to truth tables and logic.

Stadium Sightline

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:

How would you design the tiering of seats in a stadium so that all spectators have a good view?

Logic, Truth Tables and Switching Circuits Challenge

Stage: 3, 4 and 5

Learn about the link between logical arguments and electronic circuits. Investigate the logical connectives by making and testing your own circuits and fill in the blanks in truth tables to record. . . .

Elastic Maths

Stage: 4 and 5

How do you write a computer program that creates the illusion of stretching elastic bands between pegs of a Geoboard? The answer contains some surprising mathematics.

Witch's Hat

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

What shapes should Elly cut out to make a witch's hat? How can she make a taller hat?

Vector Walk

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:

Starting with two basic vector steps, which destinations can you reach on a vector walk?

How Would You Score It?

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Invent a scoring system for a 'guess the weight' competition.

David and Goliath

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:

Does weight confer an advantage to shot putters?

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