Alan Turing: Decoding Nature’s Patterns
10 Aug 2021

Alan Turing: Decoding Nature’s Patterns

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How the world’s most famous codebreaker unlocked the secrets of nature’s beauty. Patterns in nature can be decoded using mathematics. Learn how maths and biology come together in this resource for Year 8-10 STEM students. For more like this, watch … Continued
5 quirky study areas of maths
5 May 2021

5 quirky study areas of maths

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Our favourite ‘ologies’ following World Maths day. This article is best suited to secondary school students to demonstrate some careers and study areas in mathematics. It could be used to highlight crossovers between maths and other subjects as well as … Continued
A viral hit? The sequence of coronavirus makes surprisingly lovely music
19 Mar 2021

A viral hit? The sequence of coronavirus makes surprisingly lovely music

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This scientist combines a love of genetics and a love of music. This fascinating article allows students to see how the combination of music and science helped a molecular biologist turn the coronavirus genome into a song that can be … Continued
Snakey sine waves
17 Feb 2021

Snakey sine waves

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The physics of sidewinder snake movement. This article is best suited to Year 9 Physics students to combine an understanding of Physics and Biology. It looks at how specific snakes have adaptations that allow them to move in the motion … Continued
Biology by the numbers
10 Feb 2021

Biology by the numbers

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Biological sciences and maths have a growing friendship. This article highlights the importance of a connection between Biology and Mathematics. It is best suited for Biology students in Years 8 and 10 who are learning about cells or mathematical modelling. … Continued
How modelling helped our COVID response
28 Jan 2021

How modelling helped our COVID response

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Modelling is a term that is well known by scientists but has only recently been making headlines. So what does it actually mean? What does it do? And why has it become so prevalent during COVID-19? In this briefing, epidemiologists … Continued
Blossom Theory
14 Jan 2021

Blossom Theory

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For maths YouTube sensation Toby Hendy, inspiration definitely exists, but it has to find you walking. This fascinating article explains how maths exists in many forms in the natural world, for example, flowers following the Fibonacci sequence to spread their … Continued
Working in Maths — Medical Modeller
9 Jul 2020

Working in Maths — Medical Modeller

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The Working In… series compiles a selection of fascinating STEM jobs in a multitude of fields. They are designed to highlight the variety of STEM careers available to students that they may not have considered, or been aware of before now. Find out … Continued
Working in Maths — Medical Data Compiler
9 Jul 2020

Working in Maths — Medical Data Compiler

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The Working In… series compiles a selection of fascinating STEM jobs in a multitude of fields. They are designed to highlight the variety of STEM careers available to students that they may not have considered, or been aware of before now. Find out … Continued