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Pinhole Camera
Stage: 3 Challenge Level: 
Make your own pinhole camera for safe observation of the sun, and find out how it works.
Designing Table Mats
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Formulate and investigate a simple mathematical model for the design of a table mat.
Does This Sound about Right?
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Examine these estimates. Do they sound about right?
Robot Camera
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Could nanotechnology be used to see if an artery is blocked? Or is this just science fiction?
Track Design
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Where should runners start the 200m race so that they have all run the same distance by the finish?
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?
Big and Small Numbers in Chemistry
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Get some practice using big and small numbers in chemistry.
Nutrition and Cycling
Stage: 4 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 Physics
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Work out the numerical values for these physical quantities.
Constantly Changing
Stage: 4 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.
Construct the Solar System
Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
Make an accurate diagram of the solar system and explore the concept of a grand conjunction.
Scientific Measurement
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Practice your skills of measurement and estimation using this interactive measurement tool based around fascinating images from biology.
Make Your Own Pencil Case
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
What shape would fit your pens and pencils best? How can you make it?
Toad in the Hole
Stage: 3 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?
Bigger or Smaller?
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
When you change the units, do the numbers get bigger or smaller?
Choose Your Units
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Which units would you choose best to fit these situations?
Big and Small Numbers in the Physical World
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Work with numbers big and small to estimate and calculate various quantities in physical contexts.
Chocolate Cake
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
If I don't have the size of cake tin specified in my recipe, will the size I do have be OK?
Investigating the Dilution Series
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?
Stadium Sightline
Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
How would you design the tiering of seats in a stadium so that all spectators have a good view?
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.
Fill Me Up
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Can you sketch graphs to show how the height of water changes in different containers as they are filled?
How Do You React?
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
To investigate the relationship between the distance the ruler drops and the time taken, we need to do some mathematical modelling...
Alternative Record Book
Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
In which Olympic event does a human travel fastest? Decide which events to include in your Alternative Record Book.
Perfect Eclipse
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Use trigonometry to determine whether solar eclipses on earth can be perfect.
Counting Dolphins
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
How would you go about estimating populations of dolphins?
A Question of Scale
Stage: 4 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?
Olympic Records
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Can you deduce which Olympic athletics events are represented by the graphs?
Big and Small Numbers in Biology
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Work with numbers big and small to estimate and calulate various quantities in biological contexts.
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?
How Would You Score It?
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Invent a scoring system for a 'guess the weight' competition.
Approximately Certain
Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
Estimate these curious quantities sufficiently accurately that you can rank them in order of size
Electric Kettle
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Explore the relationship between resistance and temperature
Big and Small Numbers in the Living World
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Work with numbers big and small to estimate and calculate various quantities in biological contexts.
Truth Tables and Electronic Circuits
Stage: 3, 4 and 5
Investigate circuits and record your findings in this simple introduction to truth tables and logic.
Elastic Maths
Stage: 4 and 5
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.
Gym Bag
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Can Jo make a gym bag for her trainers from the piece of fabric she has?
Speedy Sidney
Stage: 3 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. . . .
Temperature
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
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?
Logic, Truth Tables and Switching Circuits Challenge
Stage: 3, 4 and 5
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. . . .
Biology Measurement Challenge
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Analyse these beautiful biological images and attempt to rank them in size order.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.