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Stats Statements
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Are these statistical statements sometimes, always or never true? Or it is impossible to say?
Aim High
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
How do you choose your planting levels to minimise the total loss at harvest time?
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.
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.
Real-life Equations
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Here are several equations from real life. Can you work out which measurements are possible from each equation?
Bessel's Equation
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Get further into power series using the fascinating Bessel's equation.
Approximately Certain
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
Estimate these curious quantities sufficiently accurately that you can rank them in order of size
Crystal Symmetry
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Use vectors and matrices to explore the symmetries of crystals.
Stirling Work
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
See how enormously large quantities can cancel out to give a good approximation to the factorial function.
Vector Walk
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
Starting with two basic vector steps, which destinations can you reach on a vector walk?
Transformations for 10
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Explore the properties of matrix transformations with these 10 stimulating questions.
Square Pair
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Explore the shape of a square after it is transformed by the action of a matrix.
Population Dynamics Collection
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
This is our collection of tasks on the mathematical theme of 'Population Dynamics' for advanced students and those interested in mathematical modelling.
Whose Line Graph Is it Anyway?
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Which line graph, equations and physical processes go together?
Brimful 2
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Which of these infinitely deep vessels will eventually full up?
Biology Measurement Challenge
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Analyse these beautiful biological images and attempt to rank them in size order.
Reaction Rates
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Explore the possibilities for reaction rates versus concentrations with this non-linear differential equation
Scale Invariance
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
By exploring the concept of scale invariance, find the probability that a random piece of real data begins with a 1.
Big and Small Numbers in Physics
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Work out the numerical values for these physical quantities.
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.
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.
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?
Fix Me or Crush Me
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Can you make matrices which will fix one lucky vector and crush another to zero?
Cross with the Scalar Product
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Explore the meaning of the scalar and vector cross products and see how the two are related.
Polygon Walk
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Go on a vector walk and determine which points on the walk are closest to the origin.
Matrix Meaning
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Explore the meaning behind the algebra and geometry of matrices with these 10 individual problems.
Quorum-sensing
Age 16 to 18 Short Challenge Level:
This problem explores the biology behind Rudolph's glowing red nose.
Building Approximations for Sin(x)
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Build up the concept of the Taylor series
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?
Pdf Stories
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Invent scenarios which would give rise to these probability density functions.
Electric Kettle
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Explore the relationship between resistance and temperature
Big and Small Numbers in Chemistry
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Get some practice using big and small numbers in chemistry.
Designing Table Mats
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Formulate and investigate a simple mathematical model for the design of a table mat.
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?
The Wrong Stats
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Why MUST these statistical statements probably be at least a little bit wrong?
Over-booking
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
The probability that a passenger books a flight and does not turn up is 0.05. For an aeroplane with 400 seats how many tickets can be sold so that only 1% of flights are over-booked?
What Do Functions Do for Tiny X?
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Looking at small values of functions. Motivating the existence of the Taylor expansion.
Investigating the Dilution Series
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?
Bigger or Smaller?
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
When you change the units, do the numbers get bigger or smaller?
Taking Trigonometry Series-ly
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Look at the advanced way of viewing sin and cos through their power series.
Choose Your Units
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Which units would you choose best to fit these situations?
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?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.