Holiday Countdown Highlights
Before we disappear for a break over the Christmas and New Year holidays, we wanted to say a massive thank you for the phenomenal response we've 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.
Roll-a-Snowflake & Christmas Code Cracker
P1 @St_Denis_PS really enjoyed exploring snowflake symmetry this morning. #MathsIsFun #ChristmasCountdown #MathsWeekScot pic.twitter.com/RJRfWhgu3q
— St Denis’ STEM and D.Y.W. (@stem_st_denis) December 1, 2022
More #P7MathsClub @mathsweekscot activities in process. #MathsWeekScot #ChristmasCountdown pic.twitter.com/ud0gYt7N0q
— Hillside School (@SchoolHillside1) December 6, 2022
My 8 yr old had great fun today decoding the #Christmas Cracker Jokes from the @mathsweekscot holiday countdown 🎄 #MathsWeekScot #STEM #ChristmasCountdown https://t.co/dY0WCTUI7l pic.twitter.com/n33hcCKdsF
— Jenni Fuchs (@jennifuchs) December 3, 2022
Baking Sugar Cookies
Some budding mathmeticians / bakers have been busy at the weekend. pic.twitter.com/faueLFRGn6
— @BruntsfieldPS (@BPSlearners) December 5, 2022
Festive Lego Building
Apparently, if you stick the Lego present & candy cane together, you get a “Christmas guitar” 😂😂 (the red & green one, I am reliably told, is an “elf guitar”) #ChristmasCountdown #Lego #LegoFan #LegoChristmas pic.twitter.com/6HEyZ5gZk0
— Jenni Fuchs (@jennifuchs) December 4, 2022
Collaborative Drawings
To celebrate #CSEdWeek2022 we have been coding and enjoying some computational thinking collaborative drawing activities @St_Denis_PS pic.twitter.com/QK7SY1RocL
— St Denis’ STEM and D.Y.W. (@stem_st_denis) December 6, 2022
Festive Sudoku & Coordinates Mystery Picture
@mathsweekscot #ChristmasSudoko and #Transum https://t.co/tVZsJjwID7 challenges at #P7Hillside #MathsClub yesterday. #ChristmasMaths #Mathsisfun pic.twitter.com/8NSx7TgAW7
— Hillside School (@SchoolHillside1) December 13, 2022
Some Sunday evening #Christmas fun with the @mathsweekscot holiday countdown activities 🖍️ #ChristmasCountdown #STEMeducation https://t.co/xghQdojz5F pic.twitter.com/vWDKg3KYVB
— Jenni Fuchs (@jennifuchs) December 12, 2022
Sierpinski Christmas Tree
P5/6/7 used their knowledge of 3D nets when taking part in the Sierpinski tree challenge today. More photos below in the thread. #teamwork @mathsweekscot #ChristmasCountdown pic.twitter.com/VdhBUKkUAZ
— Forgandenny Primary (@ForgandennyPS) December 12, 2022
Mrs Kerr's S1 Maths class today making a Sierpinski triangle Christmas tree 🎄. Thanks @mathsweekscot for the idea. #HCmaths #hamiltoncollege pic.twitter.com/HbcDioJzfC
— Maths at Hamilton College Scotland (@HCScot_Maths) December 15, 2022
P4 - P7 found the Sierpinski Christmas Trees a challenge but stuck at it and were proud of the result. @mathsweekscot pic.twitter.com/UeJxk4rbZU
— Crathie School (@Crathie_School) December 19, 2022
1 more day until the holidays! Used @mathsweekscot template with S2 today to make a Sierpinski fractal Christmas tree! 🎄 pic.twitter.com/dMLhdj953h
— Miss Cochrane 🔢 (@MCochranee) December 22, 2022
Miss Cunningham’s pupils have worked collaboratively to create this amazing tree! pic.twitter.com/Wlp2c4oRNy
— Rosshall Maths (@Rosshall_Maths) December 22, 2022
Decorate-a-Tree Race
P1-4 enjoyed some festive Christmas counting inspired by @mathsweekscot decorate a tree race. We recorded our results using the greater than and less than symbols.What a fun way to practise lots and lots of different maths skills! pic.twitter.com/kGL85cEBJg
— Tomintoul School (@TomintoulP1) December 16, 2022
Number Doodles
Here are some of our number doodles #mathsisfun pic.twitter.com/dHi1iBmApX
— Gillian Tipling (@MrsTipling) December 20, 2022
Geometric Doodles & Tessellating Trees
Christmas maths today - geometric designs. The children then tried to copy their designs in Lego. @mathsweekscot pic.twitter.com/KrTDFj4tsM
— Crathie School (@Crathie_School) December 20, 2022
P567 have really enjoyed the @mathsweekscot Christmas activities. The tessellated Christmas trees were a big hit and their geometric designs were used to create Christmas cards for residents at Spiers Nursing Home to spread some Christmas Cheer. 🎅🏼🎄#community @NAC_PLA pic.twitter.com/2klu1i6c1C
— Gateside P.S (@GatesideSchool) December 21, 2022
Binary Code Ornaments
More of #HillsideMathsClub creating their Binary Code @mathsweekscot #ChristmasCountdownCalendar ornaments. #Mathsisfun pic.twitter.com/o3PNAGwSMf
— Hillside School (@SchoolHillside1) December 21, 2022
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 Facebook or Twitter.
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Christmas Holiday Countdown 2023
Our Christmas Holiday Countdown is back for 2023! From 1 to 20 December we will be sharing daily maths inspired activities to make the wait for the holidays a little more fun.
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Ancient Egyptian Maths and Science
Glasgow Museums Resource Centre All day £45 (Free for Glasgow schools)
Schools workshop. Work in groups to solve problems faced by the Ancient Egyptian thousands of years ago, learn to measure and weigh just like they did, and handle objects they made.