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Speed-time Problems at the Olympics

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

Olympic Measures

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

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.

Olympic Records

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

Counting Dolphins

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How would you go about estimating populations of dolphins?

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?

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. . . .

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...

Triathlon and Fitness

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

Mystery Procedure

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Can you work out what this procedure is doing?

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?

Who's the Best?

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Which countries have the most naturally athletic populations?

Pinhole Camera

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Make your own pinhole camera for safe observation of the sun, and find out how it works.

Robot Camera

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

David and Goliath

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Does weight confer an advantage to shot putters?

Fill Me Up

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

More or Less?

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Are these estimates of physical quantities accurate?

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.

Scientific Measurement

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

Biology Measurement Challenge

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

Does This Sound about Right?

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Examine these estimates. Do they sound about right?

Temperature

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Water freezes at 0°Celsius (32°Fahrenheit) and boils at 100°C (212°Fahrenheit). Is there a temperature at which Celsius and Fahrenheit readings are the same?

Isometric Drawing

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Explore the properties of isometric drawings.

Genetics

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A problem about genetics and the transmission of disease.

Investigating the Dilution Series

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Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?

Chocolate Cake

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

Stadium Sightline

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

Electric Kettle

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Explore the relationship between resistance and temperature

Weekly Challenge 48: Quorum-sensing

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

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?

Toad in the Hole

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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?

Mixing Lemonade

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Can you work out which drink has the stronger flavour?

Constantly Changing

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Many physical constants are only known to a certain accuracy. Explore the numerical error bounds in the mass of water and its constituents.

Bigger or Smaller?

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

How Would You Score It?

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

Big and Small Numbers in the Physical World

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

Global Warming

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How much energy has gone into warming the planet?

Food Chains

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

Big and Small Numbers in the Living World

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

Choose Your Units

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Which units would you choose best to fit these situations?

Approximately Certain

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

Carbon Footprints

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Is it really greener to go on the bus, or to buy local?

Witch's Hat

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

Make Your Own Pencil Case

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

Track Design

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Where should runners start the 200m race so that they have all run the same distance by the finish?

Investigating Epidemics

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

Perspective Drawing

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Explore the properties of perspective drawing.

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?

Elastic Maths

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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.

Big and Small Numbers in Chemistry

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Get some practice using big and small numbers in chemistry.

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