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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?
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?
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?
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?
Investigating the Dilution Series
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?
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.
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?
Gym Bag
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Can Jo make a gym bag for her trainers from the piece of fabric she has?
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?
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?
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?
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.
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. . . .
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?
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?
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?
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?
Temperature
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Is there a temperature at which Celsius and Fahrenheit readings are the same?
Truth Tables and Electronic Circuits
Age 11 to 18
Investigate circuits and record your findings in this simple introduction to truth tables and logic.
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?
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.
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.
How Would You Score It?
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Invent a scoring system for a 'guess the weight' competition.
Data Matching
Age 14 to 18
Challenge Level
Use your skill and judgement to match the sets of random data.
Designing Table Mats
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Formulate and investigate a simple mathematical model for the design of a table mat.
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
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.
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.
What's That Graph?
Age 14 to 18
Challenge Level
Can you work out which processes are represented by the graphs?
Vector Walk
Age 14 to 18
Challenge Level
Starting with two basic vector steps, which destinations can you reach on a vector walk?
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?
Who's the Best?
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Which countries have the most naturally athletic populations?
Counting Dolphins
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
How would you go about estimating populations of dolphins?
Big and Small Numbers in Physics
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Work out the numerical values for these physical quantities.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.