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Squash
Stage: 5 Challenge Level: 
If the score is 8-8 do I have more chance of winning if the winner is the first to reach 9 points or the first to reach 10 points?
Playing Squash
Stage: 5
Playing squash involves lots of mathematics. This article explores the mathematics of a squash match and how a knowledge of probability could influence the choices you make.
FA Cup
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
In four years 2001 to 2004 Arsenal have been drawn against Chelsea in the FA cup and have beaten Chelsea every time. What was the probability of this? Lots of fractions in the calculations!
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.
Tournament Scheduling
Stage: 3 and 4
Scheduling games is a little more challenging than one might desire. Here are some tournament formats that sport schedulers use.
Physnrich
Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
PhysNRICH is the area of the StemNRICH site devoted to the mathematics underlying the study of physics
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?
Engnrich
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
engNRICH is the area of the stemNRICH Advanced site devoted to the mathematics underlying the study of engineering
Chemnrich
Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
chemNRICH is the area of the stemNRICH site devoted to the mathematics underlying the study of chemistry, designed to help develop the mathematics required to get the most from your study. . . .
Moving Stonehenge
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
A look at the fluid mechanics questions that are raised by the Stonehenge 'bluestones'.
Turning the Place Over
Stage: 3, 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
As part of Liverpool08 European Capital of Culture there were a huge number of events and displays. One of the art installations was called "Turning the Place Over". Can you find our how it works?
Predator - Prey Systems
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
See how differential equations might be used to make a realistic model of a system containing predators and their prey.
Population Dynamics
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
This problem opens a major sequence of activities on the mathematics of population dynamics for advanced students.
Bionrich
Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
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. . . .
Spectrometry Detective
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
From the atomic masses recorded in a mass spectrometry analysis can you deduce the possible form of these compounds?
Decathlon: the Art of Scoring Points
Stage: 4 and 5
How do decisions about scoring affect who wins a combined event such as the decathlon?
Gym Bag
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Can Jo make a gym bag for her trainers from the piece of fabric she has?
Cool as Ice
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Design and construct a prototype intercooler which will satisfy agreed quality control constraints.
Population Dynamics Collection
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
This is our collection of tasks on the mathematical theme of 'Population Dynamics' for advanced students and those interested in mathematical modelling.
May the Best Person Win
Stage: 1, 2, 3 and 4
How can people be divided into groups fairly for events in the Paralympics, for school sports days, or for subject sets?
The Mathematical Problems Faced by Advanced STEM Students
Stage: 5
STEM students at university often encounter mathematical difficulties. This articles highlights the various content problems and the 7 key process problems encountered by STEM students.
Performing Beyond Expectations - Using Sport to Motivate Students in Mathematics Lessons
Stage: 2, 3 and 4
In this article, Alan Parr shares his experiences of the motivating effect sport can have on the learning of mathematics.
Where Am I?
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
From the information you are asked to work out where the picture was taken. Is there too much information? How accurate can your answer be?
Roasting Old Chestnuts 4
Stage: 3 and 4
For teachers. Yet more school maths from long ago-interest and percentages.
Problem Solving, Using and Applying and Functional Mathematics
Stage: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
Problem solving is at the heart of the NRICH site. All the problems give learners opportunities to learn, develop or use mathematical concepts and skills. Read here for more information.
Classic Cube
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
The net of a cube is to be cut from a sheet of card 100 cm square. What is the maximum volume cube that can be made from a single piece of card?
A Method of Defining Coefficients in the Equations of Chemical Reactions
Stage: 4 and 5
A simple method of defining the coefficients in the equations of chemical reactions with the help of a system of linear algebraic equations.
Public Key Cryptography
Stage: 5
An introduction to the ideas of public key cryptography using small numbers to explain the process. In practice the numbers used are too large to factorise in a reasonable time.
A Brief History of Time Measurement
Stage: 2, 3, 4 and 5
Noticing the regular movement of the Sun and the stars has led to a desire to measure time. This article for teachers and learners looks at the history of man's need to measure things.
Over-booking
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
The probability that a passenger books a flight and does not turn up is 0.05. For an aeroplane with 400 seats how many tickets can be sold so that only 1% of flights are over-booked?
Mathematics in the Financial Markets
Stage: 5
Financial markets mean the business of trading risk. The article describes in simple terms what is involved in this trading, the work people do and the figures for starting salaries.
The Knapsack Problem and Public Key Cryptography
Stage: 5
An example of a simple Public Key code, called the Knapsack Code is described in this article, alongside some information on its origins. A knowledge of modular arithmetic is useful.
Air Routes
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Find the distance of the shortest air route at an altitude of 6000 metres between London and Cape Town given the latitudes and longitudes. A simple application of scalar products of vectors.
Production Equation
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Each week a company produces X units and sells p per cent of its stock. How should the company plan its warehouse space?
Randomness and Brownian Motion
Stage: 5
In Classical times the Pythagorean philosophers believed that all things were made up from a specific number of tiny indivisible particles called ‘monads’. Each object contained. . . .
Stonehenge
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Explain why, when moving heavy objects on rollers, the object moves twice as fast as the rollers. Try a similar experiment yourself.
Fitting Flat Shapes
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
How efficiently can various flat shapes be fitted together?
Parallel Parking
Stage: 4
Scientist Bryan Rickett has a vision of the future - and it is one in which self-parking cars prowl the tarmac plains, hunting down suitable parking spots and manoeuvring elegantly into them.
Big and Small Numbers in Physics - Group Task
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Work in groups to try to create the best approximations to these physical quantities.
Far Horizon
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
An observer is on top of a lighthouse. How far from the foot of the lighthouse is the horizon that the observer can see?
Bend
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
What is the longest stick that can be carried horizontally along a narrow corridor and around a right-angled bend?
Bird-brained
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
How many eggs should a bird lay to maximise the number of chicks that will hatch? An introduction to optimisation.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.