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stemNRICH: Enriching school mathematics across the curriculum
Welcome to stemNRICH - Core : On these pages we provide stimulating and relevant resources to explore the ways in which mathematics, science and technology are linked, roughly aimed at 11-16 year old students and their teachers. However, many of the 'simpler' tasks can be approached from an advanced viewpoint and the opposite is also true, so have an
explore and start to think about the amazing ways in which maths, science and technology are linked.
STEM picture of the month
This page will feature a new STEM picture every month, like NASA's astronomy picture of the day. In due course it would be great to have a picture of the week or even the day! So please send us your images for inclusion - doesn't matter if you're a teacher or a student, provided the picture is yours to submit for publication (so not taken from someone else's website and with permission if it isn't your photo or image) and it has a clear STEM focus.
STEM clubs
Each term we will feature three exciting projects for STEM clubs at the top end of KS2 and at KS3. These will include teacher notes and additional links, and we hope to add reports from schools on how they got on with the experiments and activities.
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Approximately Certain
Estimate these curious quantities sufficiently accurately that you can rank them in order of size
Hmm ... When Should Tom Have Put the Rice on ...
Creating a schedule to cook a meal consisting of two different recipes, plus rice.
Place Your Orders
Can you rank these sets of quantities in order, from smallest to largest? Can you provide convincing evidence for your rankings?
Maths Is Everywhere!
Maths is everywhere in the world! Take a look at these images. What mathematics can you see?
Fill Me Up
Can you sketch graphs to show how the height of water changes in different containers as they are filled?
Big and Small Numbers in Biology
Work with numbers big and small to estimate and calulate various quantities in biological contexts.
Tray Bake
My recipe is for 12 cakes - how do I change it if I want to make a different number of cakes?
Tom Learns to Cook
If Tom wants to learn to cook his favourite supper, he needs to make a schedule so that everything is ready at the same time.
Tower Rescue
Help the bee to build a stack of blocks far enough to save his friend trapped in the tower.
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