Before we disappear for a break over the Christmas and New Year holidays, we wanted to say a big thank you for the great response we have once again had to our holiday countdown. We have loved hearing from families and schools joining in, and have rounded up some of the pictures that have been shared with us.
Thorntree Primary School in Glasgow worked out our Christmas Jumper Logic Puzzle and challenged themselves to the Bauble Hunt.
This afternoon, R10 enjoyed participating in @mathsweekscot ‘Christmas Holiday Countdown’ Challenge 7 - festive jumper puzzle. They worked in pairs to read the clues and used a table to help record answers. Great logic and use of different PS strategies! @thorntreeheidiepic.twitter.com/TOMWUT4h1j
Today, Room 6 enjoyed the @mathsweekscot Christmas Holiday Countdown “Bauble Hunt” challenge! They had to identify, colour, count and sort all of the Christmas baubles. Super attention to detail as the baubles all looked very similar. Well done! 🎄@thorntreeheidie@MrsLAndersonpic.twitter.com/Vj883ISQhM
Crathie School in Aberdeenshire made our 3D Paper Baubles for their Christmas tree. We especially love how the P7s challenged themselves to take the activity further.
St Joseph's College Maths Club in Dumfries has been VERY busy, trying out various of our Christmas Countdown activities including the Festive Sudoku, Festive Bitmap Puzzles, Christmas Maze, Christmas Number Doodles, and Tongue Twisters Code Cracker!
The St Joseph's Maths Club are working on activities from the Maths Week Christmas Holiday countdown. This week, the team have been working on pathfinding challenges, creating maths based Christmas decorations and completing a month of cryptography challenges. pic.twitter.com/sfMilHbght
Lorne Street Primary School have also been busy, sharing pictures of their Symmetrees and 3D Paper Baubles, and trying their hand at the Christmas Maze, Tongue Twisters Code Cracker, and Christmas Jumper Logic Puzzle.
A week of festive themed maths activities with @mathsweekscot . We tried the 3D paper baubles, Christmas maze, code cracker, symmetrees and Christmas jumper logic puzzle. Can’t wait to try some more next week! @glasgowcounts#mathspic.twitter.com/1O1kjHRN6I
We were also delighted to see some of last year's Christmas Countdown activities making a reappearance, with Garnock Community Campus Maths Department making the Sierpinski Christmas Tree and Tessellation Christmas Tree:
If you want to do any of the activities over the school holidays, you can find them all on our Christmas Holiday Countdown page. And please keep sharing your photos too, and we'll update this post - you can tag us on Facebookor Twitter.
It's Spring in Edinburgh means, which means the return of the Edinburgh Science Festival (30 March - 14 April)! This years theme is Shaping the Future, and we've browsed through the programme to pick out some of our maths highlights for you.
To mark World Meteorological Day (23 March), we are delighted to share a guest post from Professor Sylvia Knight, Head of Education at the Royal Meteorological Society, to introduce their new Climate Change Concept tool and show how teachers can use it to support maths in the curriculum.
