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Maths Filler
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Imagine different shaped vessels being filled. Can you work out what the graphs of the water level should look like?
Maths Filler 2
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you draw the height-time chart as this complicated vessel fills with water?
Investigating the Dilution Series
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?
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?
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?
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.
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
What's That Graph?
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you work out which processes are represented by the graphs?
Air Nets
Age 7 to 18 Challenge Level:
Can you visualise whether these nets fold up into 3D shapes? Watch the videos each time to see if you were correct.
Place Your Orders
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you rank these sets of quantities in order, from smallest to largest? Can you provide convincing evidence for your rankings?
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. . . .
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?
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?
Gym Bag
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can Jo make a gym bag for her trainers from the piece of fabric she has?
Temperature
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Is there a temperature at which Celsius and Fahrenheit readings are the same?
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?
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?
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.
Bigger or Smaller?
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
When you change the units, do the numbers get bigger or smaller?
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?
3D Drawing
Age 11 to 16
The design technology curriculum requires students to be able to represent 3-dimensional objects on paper. This article introduces some of the mathematical ideas which underlie such methods.
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.
Data Matching
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
Use your skill and judgement to match the sets of random data.
Truth Tables and Electronic Circuits
Age 11 to 18
Investigate circuits and record your findings in this simple introduction to truth tables and logic.
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.
Olympic Measures
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
These Olympic quantities have been jumbled up! Can you put them back together again?
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?
Biology Measurement Challenge
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Analyse these beautiful biological images and attempt to rank them in size order.
Electric Kettle
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Explore the relationship between resistance and temperature
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?
Choose Your Units
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Which units would you choose best to fit these situations?
Designing Table Mats
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Formulate and investigate a simple mathematical model for the design of a table mat.
Vector Walk
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
Starting with two basic vector steps, which destinations can you reach on a vector walk?
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 Physics
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Work out the numerical values for these physical quantities.
Approximately Certain
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
Estimate these curious quantities sufficiently accurately that you can rank them in order of size
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.