National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh1st Jan-31st DecAll dayFree
Maths is all around us - in nature, wildlife, natural forces, the stars, and so much more. Take a walk around the National Museum of Scotland's Natural World galleries and see how much wild maths you can spot in the museum’s collections!
Download your free copy of the trail below. If you want to avoid printing and access the trail on your mobile device, just take along a notebook and pencil for any questions that require writing down answers. There are three questions that involve drawing, but you can sketch them out in your notebook instead.
The trail is aimed at primary school aged children, but younger children can also enjoy it in a mixed group, with different ages working together.
The trail would also be suitable to use during a self-led school visit.
The trail focuses on the museum's three Natural World galleries, which are all in a stack across Level 1, Level 3 and Level 5 at the east end of the Grand Gallery, coloured light green on the museum map. If you get stuck, we have marked below where in each gallery the questions in the trail relate to.
You don’t need to be a scientist to take part in real research. Citizen science projects welcome people of all ages to help by counting, observing, measuring, and recording what they see around them. Here are a few inspiring ways you can get involved this year.
