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Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?
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?
Can you fill in the mixed up numbers in this dilution calculation?
Can you break down this conversion process into logical steps?
Which dilutions can you make using 10ml pipettes and 100ml measuring cylinders?
Which exact dilution ratios can you make using only 2 dilutions?
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.
It is possible to identify a particular card out of a pack of 15 with the use of some mathematical reasoning. What is this reasoning and can it be applied to other numbers of cards?
Practise your skills of proportional reasoning with this interactive haemocytometer.
Practice your skills of measurement and estimation using this interactive measurement tool based around fascinating images from biology.
Explore displacement/time and velocity/time graphs with this mouse motion sensor.
A ladder 3m long rests against a wall with one end a short distance from its base. Between the wall and the base of a ladder is a garden storage box 1m tall and 1m high. What is the maximum. . . .
Match pairs of cards so that they have equivalent ratios.
This resource contains interactive problems to support work on number sequences at Key Stage 4.
Practise your diamond mining skills and your x,y coordination in this homage to Pacman.
An environment that enables you to investigate tessellations of regular polygons
How many different triangles can you make which consist of the centre point and two of the points on the edge? Can you work out each of their angles?
A group of interactive resources to support work on percentages Key Stage 4.
Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining up three points round the edge?
Euler discussed whether or not it was possible to stroll around Koenigsberg crossing each of its seven bridges exactly once. Experiment with different numbers of islands and bridges.
Use Excel to explore multiplication of fractions.
Use Excel to investigate the effect of translations around a number grid.
Interactive game. Set your own level of challenge, practise your table skills and beat your previous best score.
The interactive diagram has two labelled points, A and B. It is designed to be used with the problem "Cushion Ball"
Meg and Mo still need to hang their marbles so that they balance, but this time the constraints are different. Use the interactivity to experiment and find out what they need to do.
Meg and Mo need to hang their marbles so that they balance. Use the interactivity to experiment and find out what they need to do.
This set of resources for teachers offers interactive environments to support work on loci at Key Stage 4.
An activity based on the game 'Pelmanism'. Set your own level of challenge and beat your own previous best score.
Use an Excel to investigate division. Explore the relationships between the process elements using an interactive spreadsheet.
A collection of our favourite pictorial problems, one for each day of Advent.
Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic Countdown Game.
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to explore number in this exciting game!
Mo has left, but Meg is still experimenting. Use the interactivity to help you find out how she can alter her pouch of marbles and still keep the two pouches balanced.
Can you spot the similarities between this game and other games you know? The aim is to choose 3 numbers that total 15.
Can you give the coordinates of the vertices of the fifth point in the patterm on this 3D grid?
This game challenges you to locate hidden triangles in The White Box by firing rays and observing where the rays exit the Box.
Learn how to use the Shuffles interactivity by running through these tutorial demonstrations.
A game for 1 person to play on screen. Practise your number bonds whilst improving your memory
This resource contains a range of problems and interactivities on the theme of coordinates in two and three dimensions.
Use an Excel spreadsheet to explore long multiplication.
A simple file for the Interactive whiteboard or PC screen, demonstrating equivalent fractions.
Use this animation to experiment with lotteries. Choose how many balls to match, how many are in the carousel, and how many draws to make at once.
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to investigate factors and multiples.
A java applet that takes you through the steps needed to solve a Diophantine equation of the form Px+Qy=1 using Euclid's algorithm.
An Excel spreadsheet with an investigation.
Use Excel to practise adding and subtracting fractions.
Try entering different sets of numbers in the number pyramids. How does the total at the top change?
Triangle numbers can be represented by a triangular array of squares. What do you notice about the sum of identical triangle numbers?
What are the areas of these triangles? What do you notice? Can you generalise to other "families" of triangles?
Place a red counter in the top left corner of a 4x4 array, which is covered by 14 other smaller counters, leaving a gap in the bottom right hand corner (HOME). What is the smallest number of moves. . . .