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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.
Choose Your Units
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Which units would you choose best to fit these situations?
Bigger or Smaller?
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
When you change the units, do the numbers get bigger or smaller?
Approximately Certain
Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
Estimate these curious quantities sufficiently accurately that you can rank them in order of size
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?
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. . . .
Biology Measurement Challenge
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Analyse these beautiful biological images and attempt to rank them in size order.
Robot Camera
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Could nanotechnology be used to see if an artery is blocked? Or is this just science fiction?
Does This Sound about Right?
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Examine these estimates. Do they sound about right?
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...
Counting Dolphins
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
How would you go about estimating populations of dolphins?
The Genes of Gilgamesh
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Can you work out the parentage of the ancient hero Gilgamesh?
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.
Investigating the Dilution Series
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?
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.
Time to Evolve
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
How many generations would link an evolutionist to a very distant ancestor?
Investigating Epidemics
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Simple models which help us to investigate how epidemics grow and die out.
Weekly Challenge 48: Quorum-sensing
Stage: 4 Short Challenge Level:
This problem explores the biology behind Rudolph's glowing red nose.
Reaction Timer
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
This problem offers you two ways to test reactions - use them to investigate your ideas about speeds of reaction.
Scientific Measurement
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Practice your skills of measurement and estimation using this interactive measurement tool based around fascinating images from biology.
Speed-time Problems at the Olympics
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to race against Usain Bolt?
Maths Is Everywhere!
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Maths is everywhere in the world! Take a look at these images. What mathematics can you see?
Terrariums
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Build a mini eco-system, and collect and interpret data on how well the plants grow under different conditions.
Bird Watch
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
Do you know which birds are regular visitors where you live?
Like Father Like Son
Stage: 4 Short Challenge Level:
What is the chance I will have a son who looks like me?
Using the Haemocytometer
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Practise your skills of proportional reasoning with this interactive haemocytometer.
Flower Power
Stage: 3 and 4 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.