Explore the power of aeroplanes, spaceships and horses.
There has been a murder on the Stevenson estate. Use your
analytical chemistry skills to assess the crime scene and identify
the cause of death...
Given the equation for the path followed by the back wheel of a
bike, can you solve to find the equation followed by the front
Analyse these repeating patterns. Decide on the conditions for a
periodic pattern to occur and when the pattern extends to infinity.
Get further into power series using the fascinating Bessel's equation.
How much energy has gone into warming the planet?
Build up the concept of the Taylor series
Which parts of these framework bridges are in tension and which parts are in compression?
How fast would you have to throw a ball upwards so that it would
See how enormously large quantities can cancel out to give a good
approximation to the factorial function.
A spiropath is a sequence of connected line segments end to end
taking different directions. The same spiropath is iterated. When
does it cycle and when does it go on indefinitely?
By exploring the concept of scale invariance, find the probability
that a random piece of real data begins with a 1.
Have you got the Mach knack? Discover the mathematics behind
exceeding the sound barrier.
Work with numbers big and small to estimate and calculate various quantities in biological contexts.
Work with numbers big and small to estimate and calculate various quantities in physical contexts.
Get some practice using big and small numbers in chemistry.
Read all about electromagnetism in our interactive article.
Dip your toe into the fascinating topic of genetics. From Mendel's
theories to some cutting edge experimental techniques, this article
gives an insight into some of the processes underlying. . . .
An article demonstrating mathematically how various physical
modelling assumptions affect the solution to the seemingly simple
problem of the projectile.
Ever wondered what it would be like to vaporise a diamond? Find out
An introduction to a useful tool to check the validity of an equation.
A simplified account of special relativity and the twins paradox.
Look at the advanced way of viewing sin and cos through their power series.
Find all the periodic cycles and fixed points in this number
sequence using any whole number as a starting point.
Explore the properties of this different sort of differential
Fancy learning a bit more about rates of reaction, but don't know
where to look? Come inside and find out more...
Unearth the beautiful mathematics of symmetry whilst investigating
the properties of crystal lattices
On a "move" a stone is removed from two of the circles and placed
in the third circle. Here are five of the ways that 27 stones could
Can you deduce why common salt isn't NaCl_2?
We think this 3x3 version of the game is often harder than the 5x5 version. Do you agree? If so, why do you think that might be?
Take ten sticks in heaps any way you like. Make a new heap using
one from each of the heaps. By repeating that process could the
arrangement 7 - 1 - 1 - 1 ever turn up, except by starting with it?
Take any pair of numbers, say 9 and 14. Take the larger number,
fourteen, and count up in 14s. Then divide each of those values by
the 9, and look at the remainders.
Two polygons fit together so that the exterior angle at each end of
their shared side is 81 degrees. If both shapes now have to be
regular could the angle still be 81 degrees?
Could nanotechnology be used to see if an artery is blocked? Or is this just science fiction?
Investigate constructible images which contain rational areas.
An introduction to bond angle geometry.
In a snooker game the brown ball was on the lip of the pocket but
it could not be hit directly as the black ball was in the way. How
could it be potted by playing the white ball off a cushion?
This article (the first of two) contains ideas for investigations.
Space-time, the curvature of space and topology are introduced with
some fascinating problems to explore.
Two perpendicular lines lie across each other and the end points
are joined to form a quadrilateral. Eight ratios are defined, three
are given but five need to be found.
Read about the mathematics behind the measuring devices used in
We all know that smoking poses a long term health risk and has the
potential to cause cancer. But what actually happens when you light
up a cigarette, place it to your mouth, take a tidal breath. . . .
Where we follow twizzles to places that no number has been before.
When is a knot invertible ?
Can you find some Pythagorean Triples where the two smaller numbers differ by 1?
What's the chance of a pair of lists of numbers having sample
correlation exactly equal to zero?
Is the age of this very old man statistically believable?
Explore the properties of combinations of trig functions in this open investigation.
All types of mathematical problems serve a useful purpose in
mathematics teaching, but different types of problem will achieve
different learning objectives. In generalmore open-ended problems
have. . . .
Draw three equal line segments in a unit circle to divide the
circle into four parts of equal area.
Investigate x to the power n plus 1 over x to the power n when x
plus 1 over x equals 1.