Your search returned 52 results

New for 2022, these pack contains ways to celebrate and enjoy Maths Week Scotland with early, first, second or third/fourth level children, either at home or school.

Download all Activity Packs from 2022 and previous years via the link below.

Content provided by Education Scotland

In a series of four videos, children demonstrate how mathematical principles including symmetry, tessellation and 3D shapes, can be the basis for a huge range of art and craft projects. Cubic chickens, cat portraits, stained glass windows, stencils, a birthday card for your granny…

The videos are made with children in mind, but are suitable for all ages - try for yourself!

Created by Anne McNaught and Johanna Hall

An ideal story for ages 3-6, this early years resource covers counting from 1-20 , large and small sizes, sorting shapes and encourages creativity in an outdoor setting.

To watch the video, including a BSL version, and for details on how to request a supporting PDF sheet for teachers, visit the JoJo Gnome website.

Created by Jo Hall

Daily videos and activities to do with your class or at home covering topics including classification, patterns and symmetry. Teachers notes and plans are also provided.

Content created by the Scottish Mathematical Council

New sessions for 2021! Use resources developed by The Scottish Book Trust to embed numeracy into early years activities. This resources contains ideas for activities, songs and rhymes to help plan fun sessions with a numeracy focus.

Counting songs and rhymes, finger counting and props can help reinforce number sequences, physical values of numbers and children's overall awareness of numbers.

Twinkl Scotland have been working in collaboration with Maths Week Scotland to produce a range of resources. Find a wide range of resources linking to and informed by Curriculum for Excellence, which support teaching and learning maths. These resources include talking cards, activity sheets and classroom ideas to get pupils talking about and engaging with maths.

STEM Ambassadors visit classes to share how they use maths in their roles for Maths Week Scotland. Their offer includes:

• Virtual STEM Ambassador sessions
• Online resources
• Online CPD

Head over to the Careers Carnival for pre-recorded videos of STEM Ambassadors about their careers in maths, engineering and space amongst others!

STEM Ambassadors can help you to bring to life STEM subjects and in particular maths and numeracy. Download our handbook and visit our website for resources, including the "But when will I ever use this?" careers resource, Marvellous Maths videos, Careers Cards resource, and Breakout of Maths Stereotypes challenges.

The Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET) offers a wide range of resources, covering all ages and stages, which aim to bring maths alive in the classroom.

This resource aims to inspire learning about maths, through art. We’ve put together a powerpoint ready for you to use in school, or print out to use on a gallery visit to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

You can select the tasks that best suit your learners, try them in any order and adapt to suit. Activities include: Tesselation, Scale, Favourite numbers, Describing Shape, Symmetry and Pattern.

Created by National Galleries Scotland

These ancient Egyptian maths worksheets are designed to explore maths and ancient Egypt for a Level 1 learner.

• Count Like An Ancient Egyptian: Explore how ancient Egyptians wrote and used numbers and have a go at some real ancient Egyptian maths problems.
• Pyramid stones: Discover how huge stones were moved across Egypt to build the pyramids and have a go at building your own ancient Egyptian model boat.
• The Rhind papyrus: Try to crack this real ancient Egyptian maths problem.

Created by National Museums Scotland

Are you ready for a mathematical space adventure? Prepare for a journey to the Planet Turasmara. Download and complete your passport application ready for boarding, then solve the six space maths challenges!

Can you fit all of your cargo into your spaceship? What number sequence will open the spacecraft door? How will you get the creatures of Turasmara safely across the river without them eating each other?

Created by the Scottish Mathematical Council

How do you measure and what would you do with £1,000,000? How do we use maths to fight money crime? Watch the videos and try these activities to find out.

Content by Museum on the Mound

Learn with Will is a video series of Maths, Science and English. Join Chris and Will on their magical adventures as they bring stone circles to life and summon magical forest spirits, to help you learn about measuring circles.

In Bringing Magic Circles to Life, you'll learn how to measure different parts of a circle, like the radius, diameter, circumference, and area. And in Summon Magical Forest Spirits, you’ll learn how to measure more parts of a circle, like the arc and sector. And there's worksheets to download too, if you want to keep practicing.

Content by Learn with Will

A good understanding of times tables, and the ability to recall them quickly, is an essential foundation for children’s learning. So at Sumdog, we've made all our practice tools fun and engaging - and completely free!

Download our Times Tables pack to access our Pathway to Multiplication Success, lesson plans and times tables cards to use during Maths Week Scotland.

New for 2021 these resources are a fun way to explore maths through golf – there are also prizes to be won!

From pars to handicaps, wind speed to distance, ball trajectory to the slant of the green, almost every aspect of golf relies on numerical calculation.

Developed by Winning Scotland and Aberdeen Standard Investments in support of the Making Maths Count ambition to engage more pupils in maths in real-life contexts

Kjartan Poskitt, author of the Murderous Maths books, wows with maths tricks to try yourself in class

How did maths build the castle? How did division help people survive a seige?

Explore Edinburgh Castle and your local area through maths eyes with our activities aimed at P5-7 pupils.

Created by the Royal Statistical Society, this activity get learners thinking about how information is collected and introduces some simple approaches to visualise the data that they have collected.

Using a data collection app, students will be be introduced to bar charts, dot plots and pie charts.

They can get creative and produce their own data visualisations to find out how their class really feels about Irn Bru...

Soap bubbles, paper folding, computers and bridges are all inspiration for these Primary School activity ideas from the Royal Institution.