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Carbon Footprints
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Is it really greener to go on the bus, or to buy local?
Fill Me Up
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you sketch graphs to show how the height of water changes in different containers as they are filled?
Scientific Measurement
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Practice your skills of measurement and estimation using this interactive measurement tool based around fascinating images from biology.
Designing Table Mats
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Formulate and investigate a simple mathematical model for the design of a table mat.
Chocolate Cake
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
If I don't have the size of cake tin specified in my recipe, will the size I do have be OK?
Does This Sound about Right?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Examine these estimates. Do they sound about right?
Robot Camera
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Could nanotechnology be used to see if an artery is blocked? Or is this just science fiction?
Stadium Sightline
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
How would you design the tiering of seats in a stadium so that all spectators have a good view?
Fill Me up Too
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
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?
Pinhole Camera
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Make your own pinhole camera for safe observation of the sun, and find out how it works.
Make Your Own Pencil Case
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
What shape would fit your pens and pencils best? How can you make it?
Vector Walk
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
Starting with two basic vector steps, which destinations can you reach on a vector walk?
Constantly Changing
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Many physical constants are only known to a certain accuracy. Explore the numerical error bounds in the mass of water and its constituents.
Big and Small Numbers in Chemistry
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Get some practice using big and small numbers in chemistry.
Back Fitter
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
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?
How Do You React?
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
To investigate the relationship between the distance the ruler drops and the time taken, we need to do some mathematical modelling...
Construct the Solar System
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
Make an accurate diagram of the solar system and explore the concept of a grand conjunction.
Toad in the Hole
Age 11 to 14 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?
Far Horizon
Age 14 to 16 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?
Track Design
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Where should runners start the 200m race so that they have all run the same distance by the finish?
Speedy Sidney
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
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. . . .
Weekly Challenge 48: Quorum-sensing
Age 14 to 16 Short Challenge Level:
This problem explores the biology behind Rudolph's glowing red nose.
Alternative Record Book
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
In which Olympic event does a human travel fastest? Decide which events to include in your Alternative Record Book.
Electric Kettle
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Explore the relationship between resistance and temperature
Big and Small Numbers in Biology
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Work with numbers big and small to estimate and calulate various quantities in biological contexts.
Bigger or Smaller?
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
When you change the units, do the numbers get bigger or smaller?
Counting Dolphins
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
How would you go about estimating populations of dolphins?
Guessing the Graph
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you suggest a curve to fit some experimental data? Can you work out where the data might have come from?
Nutrition and Cycling
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Andy wants to cycle from Land's End to John o'Groats. Will he be able to eat enough to keep him going?
Big and Small Numbers in the Physical World
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Work with numbers big and small to estimate and calculate various quantities in physical contexts.
Choose Your Units
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Which units would you choose best to fit these situations?
Elastic Maths
Age 14 to 18
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.
Investigating the Dilution Series
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?
Gym Bag
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can Jo make a gym bag for her trainers from the piece of fabric she has?
Truth Tables and Electronic Circuits
Age 11 to 18
Investigate circuits and record your findings in this simple introduction to truth tables and logic.
Logic, Truth Tables and Switching Circuits Challenge
Age 11 to 18
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. . . .
Witch's Hat
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
What shapes should Elly cut out to make a witch's hat? How can she make a taller hat?
Investigating Epidemics
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Simple models which help us to investigate how epidemics grow and die out.
Perfect Eclipse
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use trigonometry to determine whether solar eclipses on earth can be perfect.
A Question of Scale
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
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?
How Would You Score It?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Invent a scoring system for a 'guess the weight' competition.
What's That Graph?
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you work out which processes are represented by the graphs?
Triathlon and Fitness
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The triathlon is a physically gruelling challenge. Can you work out which athlete burnt the most calories?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.