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Challenges Sumdog
Celebrate maths and bring children together across Scotland with a fun online maths contest from Sumdog. Dates for the Maths Week Scotland 2024 Sumdog competition will be announced later this year.
The contest is completely free to enter and is a fantastic way to motivate children and encourage teamwork as they battle it out against schools to become Maths Week Scotland champions.
Help develop children’s number fluency as they answer quick-fire questions in game format. Personalised questions also help to build pupil confidence as they answer questions tailored to their individual level.
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Learning Resources Bookbug Sessions
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Activity: Link Maths Outdoors: 30 Days Wild
- Age groups
- 0-4
- 5-7
- 8-11
- 12-15
We love taking our maths outdoors, so we've come up with 30 fun ideas to do together as a family, that will get you active in nature and incorporate some maths along the way. Complete with downloadable calendar of ideas, and a set of 30 activity 'cards'.
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Learning Resources Ancient Egyptian maths resources
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
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Learning Resources BBC Rainbow Quizzes
The Rainbow Quiz is a set of audio quizzes for First Level classes, presented by BBC Scotland's Catriona Shearer.
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Learning Resources Path Finding Challenge
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Learning Resources Maths in Motion
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Learning Resources Maths in Motion Sports Quiz
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Activity: Video Magazine Number Hunt
- Age groups
- 5-7
- 8-11
Dig out your old magazines, and challenge them to a magazine number hunt! See how many different numbers you can find, then sort them in ascending order. Or do a shape hunt instead and create a collage out of all the different shapes you can find.
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Countdown Entries 2 December: Christmas Maze
Can you help Jingles the elf find his way to the Christmas present in our Christmas Maze? There are three levels of difficulty to choose from.
>> Download Christmas Maze (easy)
>> Download Christmas Maze (medium)
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Activity: Link Shape Mice
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- 0-4
- 5-7
- 8-11
Celebrate Burns Night with our fun shape activity, in honour of one of Robert Burns' most well known poems, 'To a Mouse'. Cut out shapes of different sizes from coloured paper or card, and arrange them to create mice. What other shapes can you use? How about a pentagon or a hexagon mouse?
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Learning Resources Maths on Flags: Mindset Maths through Golf
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
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Countdown Entries 4 December: Code Cracker Challenge
Three Christmas tongue twisters have been encrypted as secret messages below, using Pigpen Cipher. Can you crack the code?
You can also try encrypting your own messages, using our Cryptography resource developed by the Open University
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Activity: Link Scavenger Shape Hunt
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- 0-4
- 5-7
- 8-11
A scavenger hunt is a great way to get out and about AND have some fun with maths. Go on a Shape Hunt, looking for how many different shapes you can find in your neighbourhood. Why not document what you find and share your photographs with us online!
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Learning Resources Castle Quest at Edinburgh Castle