Family Activities - Maths Week Scotland

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Maths Week Bingo

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5-7
8-11
12-15
16+

Are you ready to play Maths Week Bingo? A fun way to keep track of all your Maths Week activities. How many activities can you complete? Can you complete a row across, down or diagonally? Or even the entire card! Download your free Bingo sheet, and find inspiration for all the various activities, on our Bingo page.

Available in English and Scottish Gaelic.

Maths Week Bingo

Bingo na Seachdain Matamataig

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Finn Finity's Lego Challenge

Age groups
5-7
8-11

Building with Lego is a great opportunity to incorporate a little maths in to children's play time. How many bricks do they need of each colour? What size of bricks? Download our free Lego Challenge Cards to for even more Lego maths fun!

Download Lego Challenge Cards

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Finn Finity and the Wild Maths Zoo Adventure

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8-11

An interactive story in five chapters with maths puzzles and activities to solve as you read. If you complete the story, the final puzzle lets you 'unlock' a hidden webpage where you can download a small reward.

Download Zoo Adventure

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Cryptography Challenge

Age groups
8-11
12-15
16+

Five exhibits at National Museum of Scotland have been written in code! Can you use your code breaking skills to find out what they are?

Created by Open University Faculty of STEM

Download Cryptography Challenge

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DIY Bead & String Puzzle

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8-11
12-15
16+

Get hands on with your very own DIY bead & string puzzle. First you'll need to make it, then you'll need to solve it!

DIY Bead & String Puzzle

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Numerical Doodles

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5-7
8-11
12-15

Numerical doodles are a fun way for children to gain more confidence in recognising and naming numbers. Older learners can also still have fun getting creative. Try your hand at recreating our doodles, or create your own - what can you turn each number in to?

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How to Play Tenzi

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5-7
8-11

Tenzi is a dice game for two or more players, which is great for number recognition. You will need a set of ten dice per player, with a different colour of dice each. The basic aim of the game is to be the first player to get all of your dice to show the same number.

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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.

Magazine Number Hunt Details

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Pi Day Necklace or Bracelet

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5-7
8-11
12-15

To celebrate Pi Day, we're showing you two different ways to make a necklace or bracelet that will help you memorise the digits of pi. Wear yours on Pi Day, or make one to share with a maths loving friend.

Pi Day Necklace & Bracelet Tutorial

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How to Play Sim

Age groups
5-7
8-11
12-15
16+

We have another fun maths game to share with you today. Sim is a pen & paper game for two players. It's named after cryptographer and mathematician Gustavus Simmons, who first introduced the game in 1969.

Sim Tutorial

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Seaside Path Finding Challenge

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5-7
8-11

Can you find your way along the seashore by following the repeating pattern from START to END? Colour each square in the repeating pattern to mark out the correct path.

Seaside Path Finding Challenge

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Summer Sudoku

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5-7
8-11
12-15

In our Summer Sudoku, use your pattern recognition and logical thinking skills to complete the seasonal patterns. Cut out the symbols and place them on the grid so that you have one of each symbol in every row, column and 2x2, 3x2 block or 3x3 block. There are three different levels of difficulty to choose from.

>> Download Summer Sudoku (easy)
>> Download Summer Sudoku (medium)
>> Download Summer Sudoku (hard)

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Pier Arts Centre activities

Age groups
5-7
8-11

Explore four artworks from the Pier Arts Centre collection with these art activity sheets. Explore shapes and composition through the work of Ben Nicholson, three-dimensional paper folding inspired by Jim Lambie, Mobius loops through the work of Barbara Hepworth, and geometric drawing inspired by Steven MacIver.

Artwork credit: Steven MacIver, Akasaka, 2010

Pier Arts Centre website

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Multiplication Dice Game

Age groups
5-7
8-11
12-15

Today we have a really simple game to share with you, that can be played at home, on the go, or in the classroom. The game encourages multiplication and addition skills, and also requires some strategic thinking and considering the probability of what numbers you are going to roll.

Multiplication Dice Game

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Five Field Kono

Age groups
8-11
12-15
16+

Learn how to play Five Field Kono - a strategy game from Korea. The aim of the game is to be the first to get all your counters to your opponent’s side of the board.

Five Field Kono Tutorial

Summer Time Code Cracker

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8-11
12-15
16+

The punchlines to five summer time jokes have been encrypted as secret messages, using Pigpen Cipher. Can you crack the code?

You can also have a go at encrypting your own secret messages, using our Cryptography resource developed by the Open University, with five different ciphers to choose from.

>> Download Code Cracker Challenge
>> Download Cryptography Resource

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Threes Away

Age groups
8-11
12-15
16+

We love a good dice game! If you travel with some dice in your pocket, you'll never be bored, there's so much you can do with them. Today's game Threes Away requires five dice - you'll also need to think strategically, and it encourages number recognition too.

Threes Away Tutorial

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Sports Logic Puzzle

Age groups
8-11
12-15
16+

It's a Summer of sports - can you work out from the clues, who has gone to watch which sporting event, and what snacks they are eating? There are two levels of difficulty to choose from. In the advanced level, you'll also need to work out what the weather is like.

Download Logic Puzzle (easy)

Download Logic Puzzle (advanced)

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How to Play Queah

Age groups
8-11
12-15
16+

Queah is a traditional board game from Liberia. The two-player strategy game has some similarities to draughts, in that you capture your opponent's counters by jumping over them. A unique feature is that you have a reserve, from which you can replace your captured counters.

Queah Tutorial