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Big and Small Numbers in the Living World
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Work with numbers big and small to estimate and calculate various quantities in biological contexts.
Biology Measurement Challenge
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Analyse these beautiful biological images and attempt to rank them in size order.
Approximately Certain
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
Estimate these curious quantities sufficiently accurately that you can rank them in order of size
Counting Dolphins
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
How would you go about estimating populations of dolphins?
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?
Bionrich
Age 14 to 18 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. . . .
Choose Your Units
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Which units would you choose best to fit these situations?
Bigger or Smaller?
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
When you change the units, do the numbers get bigger or smaller?
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.
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?
Does This Sound about Right?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Examine these estimates. Do they sound about right?
The Genes of Gilgamesh
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you work out the parentage of the ancient hero Gilgamesh?
Investigating the Dilution Series
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?
Investigating Epidemics
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Simple models which help us to investigate how epidemics grow and die out.
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...
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.
Time to Evolve
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
How many generations would link an evolutionist to a very distant ancestor?
Maths Is Everywhere!
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Maths is everywhere in the world! Take a look at these images. What mathematics can you see?
Speed-time Problems at the Olympics
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to race against Usain Bolt?
Using the Haemocytometer
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Practise your skills of proportional reasoning with this interactive haemocytometer.
Like Father Like Son
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
What is the chance I will have a son who looks like me?
Reaction Timer
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
This problem offers you two ways to test reactions - use them to investigate your ideas about speeds of reaction.
Terrariums
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Build a mini eco-system, and collect and interpret data on how well the plants grow under different conditions.
Bio Graphs
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
What biological growth processes can you fit to these graphs?
Flower Power
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Create a symmetrical fabric design based on a flower motif - and realise it in Logo.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.