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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?
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?
How Would You Score It?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Invent a scoring system for a 'guess the weight' competition.
Big and Small Numbers in Chemistry
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Get some practice using big and small numbers in chemistry.
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.
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.
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.
Designing Table Mats
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Formulate and investigate a simple mathematical model for the design of a table mat.
Approximately Certain
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
Estimate these curious quantities sufficiently accurately that you can rank them in order of size
Big and Small Numbers in Physics
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Work out the numerical values for these physical quantities.
Who's the Best?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Which countries have the most naturally athletic populations?
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?
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?
Investigating Epidemics
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Simple models which help us to investigate how epidemics grow and die out.
Olympic Records
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you deduce which Olympic athletics events are represented by the graphs?
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?
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?
Investigating the Dilution Series
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?
Data Matching
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
Use your skill and judgement to match the sets of random data.
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?
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 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?
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?
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.
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?
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?
What's That Graph?
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you work out which processes are represented by the graphs?
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.
Truth Tables and Electronic Circuits
Age 11 to 18
Investigate circuits and record your findings in this simple introduction to truth tables and logic.
Perfect Eclipse
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use trigonometry to determine whether solar eclipses on earth can be perfect.
Temperature
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Is there a temperature at which Celsius and Fahrenheit readings are the same?
Electric Kettle
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Explore the relationship between resistance and temperature
Olympic Measures
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
These Olympic quantities have been jumbled up! Can you put them back together again?
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.
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.
Counting Dolphins
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
How would you go about estimating populations of dolphins?
Biology Measurement Challenge
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Analyse these beautiful biological images and attempt to rank them in size order.
Maths Filler 2
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you draw the height-time chart as this complicated vessel fills with water?
Immersion
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Various solids are lowered into a beaker of water. How does the water level rise in each case?
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?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.