Resources tagged with: STEM - living world
There are 33 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to STEM - living world, you may find related items under Cross-curricular contexts.
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Discuss and Choose
This activity challenges you to decide on the 'best' number to use in each statement. You may need to do some estimating, some calculating and some research.
Speed-time Problems at the Olympics
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to race against Usain Bolt?
A Question of Scale
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?
Reaction Timer
This problem offers you two ways to test reactions - use them to investigate your ideas about speeds of reaction.
Terrariums
Build a mini eco-system, and collect and interpret data on how well the plants grow under different conditions.
Flower Power
Create a symmetrical fabric design based on a flower motif - and realise it in Logo.
Investigating Epidemics
Simple models which help us to investigate how epidemics grow and die out.
Curve Spotting
Can you spot circles, spirals and other types of curves in these photos?
Robot Camera
Could nanotechnology be used to see if an artery is blocked? Or is this just science fiction?
Biology Measurement Challenge
Analyse these beautiful biological images and attempt to rank them in size order.
Does This Sound about Right?
Examine these estimates. Do they sound about right?
Maths Is Everywhere!
Maths is everywhere in the world! Take a look at these images. What mathematics can you see?
A Very Shiny Nose?
This problem explores the biology behind Rudolph's glowing red nose, and introduces the real life phenomena of bacterial quorum sensing.
Alternative Record Book
In which Olympic event does a human travel fastest? Decide which events to include in your Alternative Record Book.
Counting Dolphins
How would you go about estimating populations of dolphins?
Big and Small Numbers in the Living World
Work with numbers big and small to estimate and calculate various quantities in biological contexts.
Peas in a Pod
What is the chance this pea plant will look like its parents?
How Do You React?
To investigate the relationship between the distance the ruler drops and the time taken, we need to do some mathematical modelling...
Approximately Certain
Estimate these curious quantities sufficiently accurately that you can rank them in order of size
The Genes of Gilgamesh
Can you work out the parentage of the ancient hero Gilgamesh?
Investigating the Dilution Series
Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?
Choose Your Units
Which units would you choose best to fit these situations?
Time to Evolve
How many generations would link an evolutionist to a very distant ancestor?
Bio Graphs
What biological growth processes can you fit to these graphs?
Bigger or Smaller?
When you change the units, do the numbers get bigger or smaller?
Big and Small Numbers in Biology
Work with numbers big and small to estimate and calulate various quantities in biological contexts.
bioNRICH
bioNRICH is the area of the stemNRICH site devoted to the mathematics underlying the study of the biological sciences, designed to help develop the mathematics required to get the most from your study of biology at A-level and university.