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Is Your DNA Unique?
16 to 18
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Use combinatoric probabilities to work out the probability that you are genetically unique!
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Learning Mathematics Through Games Series: 4. From Strategy Games
Basic strategy games are particularly suitable as starting points for investigations. Players instinctively try to discover a winning strategy, and usually the best way to do this is to analyse the outcomes of series of 'moves'. With a little encouragement from the teacher, a mathematical investigation is born.
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Children's Thinking
Dr Sue Gifford outlines different ways in which you might capture young children's mathematical thinking and how to send samples to NRICH.
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Pentagon Construction
16 to 18
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Follow the instructions to create a regular pentagon. Can you prove it is indeed regular?
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Platonic Planet
14 to 16
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Glarsynost lives on a planet whose shape is that of a perfect
regular dodecahedron. Can you describe the shortest journey she can
make to ensure that she will see every part of the planet?
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Drug Stabiliser
16 to 18
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How does the half-life of a drug affect the build up of medication
in the body over time?
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Last Biscuit
11 to 18
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Can you find a strategy that ensures you get to take the last biscuit in this game?
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Distribution Differences
14 to 16
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How could you compare different situations where something random happens? What sort of things might be the same? What might be different?
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Integration Matcher
16 to 18
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Can you match the charts of these functions to the charts of their integrals?