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Science https://motivate.maths.org/content/taxonomy/term/639/all en Malaria as an Infectious Disease https://motivate.maths.org/content/Malaria <p><strong>Mark Carrington</strong>, University of Cambridge </p> <p><img src="http://motivate.maths.org/conferences/conf45/Images/mosquito2a.jpg" alt="" align="right" /></p> <p><em>(Picture obtained from <a href="http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/anopheles.html">http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/anopheles.html</a><br />copyright held by BIODIDAC <a href="http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca/info/browse.htm">http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca/info/browse.htm</a>)</em></p> <p><a href="https://motivate.maths.org/content/Malaria" target="_blank">read more</a></p> 13-15 years old Mathematical modelling Science Biology Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:51:19 +0000 motivateadmin 1069 at https://motivate.maths.org/content Are we alone? https://motivate.maths.org/content/are-we-alone <p><strong>Carolin Crawford</strong>, University of Cambridge <br /><img src="http://motivate.maths.org/conferences/conf58/Images/conf_logo.jpg" alt="conference logo" hspace="7" vspace="7" align="right" /></p> <p>These resources were originally presented in connection with videoconferences in 2005.  They are now freely available to schools.</p> <p><img src="http://motivate.maths.org/conferences/conf58/Images/aliens.jpg" alt="two aliens" hspace="7" vspace="7" align="left" /></p> <p><em>(Original drawing by Danielle Stretch, University of Cambridge)</em></p> <fieldset class="fieldgroup group-pwork"><legend>Project Work</legend><div class="field field-type-link field-field-plink"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/content/design-your-own-planet-1">What will your planet be like? Where will it be? Who will live there? </a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/content/space-missions">Find out about recent space missions, or plan your own</a> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/content/escape-space">Overcoming the gravitational pull of a planet</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/content/how-many-civilisations-could-there-be">Estimate how many intelligent, communicating civilisations there might be in the Milky Way</a> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/content/life-other-planets-0">What do you think it would be like to live somewhere else in the solar system?</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/content/what-are-planets-3">What would you find if you travelled to another planet?</a> </div> </div> </div> </fieldset> <fieldset class="fieldgroup group-add-mat"><legend>Addition Material</legend><div class="field field-type-link field-field-alink"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://motivate.maths.org/content/AreWeAlone/SolutionsHelpEscapeVelocity">Answers to the questions in "Overcoming the gravitational pull of a planet "</a> </div> </div> </div> </fieldset> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-tlink"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/content/solar-system-0">An introduction to Carolin Crawford's talk in the first videoconference and a survey of the solar system.</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/content/life-earth">What conditions have created life as we know it on Earth?</a> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/content/there-likely-be-life-other-rocky-planets">How do the inner planets, Mercury, Venus and Mars, match up to the conditions which we know have produced life on Earth?</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/content/gas-giants">Could there be life in the outer solar system?</a> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="https://motivate.maths.org/content/are-we-alone" target="_blank">read more</a></p> 9-11 years old Maths and science Science Astronomy Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:51:16 +0000 motivateadmin 1038 at https://motivate.maths.org/content Avalanches https://motivate.maths.org/content/Avalanches <p><strong>Ian Johnston</strong>, Open University</p> <fieldset class="fieldgroup group-pwork"><legend>Project Work</legend><div class="field field-type-link field-field-plink"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/content/triangle-game">Triangle Game</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/content/simulating-avalanche-peas-raisins">Avalanche Experiments</a> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/content/elasticated-cups">Simulating an avalanche</a> </div> </div> </div> </fieldset> <fieldset class="fieldgroup group-add-mat"><legend>Addition Material</legend><div class="field field-type-link field-field-alink"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/content/attleborough-high-schools-project-work">Project work by Attleborough High School, Norfolk, UK</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/content/jersey-school-girls">Project work by Jersey School for Girls, Jersey, UK</a> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/content/harborne-school-birmingham">Project work by Harborne School, Birmingham, UK</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/content/mondale-secondary-school-project-work">Project work by Mondale Secondary School, Cape Town, SA</a> </div> </div> </div> </fieldset> <p><a href="https://motivate.maths.org/content/Avalanches" target="_blank">read more</a></p> 11-13 years old Mathematical modelling Science Data-handling Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:50:48 +0000 motivateadmin 762 at https://motivate.maths.org/content Avalanches https://motivate.maths.org/content/InvestigatingAvalanches <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-link-from"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Linked From: </div> <a href="/content/Avalanches">Avalanches</a> </div> </div> </div> <table style="width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8"> <tbody> <tr valign="top"> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class="smalltext">Back to : <a href="../conference.php?conf_id=30">Avalanches Main Page</a></span> <a id="content" name="content"></a> <h1>Avalanches and sandpiles</h1> </td></tr></tbody></table><p><a href="https://motivate.maths.org/content/InvestigatingAvalanches" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Mathematical modelling Science avalanches Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:50:47 +0000 motivateadmin 752 at https://motivate.maths.org/content