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How to Play Threes Away
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.
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Summer Time Puzzles
With the summer holidays looming, we've put together a selection of seasonal summer puzzles covering a range of different maths skills including counting, pattern recognition, logical thinking and code breaking. They're perfect for some end of term fun at school or as a boredom buster during the holidays.
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Maths in Football
Celebrate the UEFA European Football Championship 2024 with our maths in football facts and activities, including interactive videos and a quiz!
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Glasgow's Transforming: Glasgow Science Festival 2024
Glasgow Science Festival kicks off tomorrow (6 - 16 June 2024), with the theme "Glasgow's Transforming". We've had a browse through the programme, and picked out some of our favourite events.
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Maths Outdoors: 30 Days Wild
For the UK Wildlife Trusts annual 30 Days Wild challenge, which encourages people to spend more time outside and engage with nature, we've come up with 30 fun ideas to get you active in nature and incorporate some maths along the way (updated for 2024).
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Maths at Work Compilation Packs
We have pulled together all the 'Maths at Work' related activities from our past Activity Packs, to make it easier for you to access this content which can be reused year after year. The compilation packs align with the levels of the Scottish curriculum.
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Maths Week Scotland for Museums: How to get involved
Maths Week Scotland works with a range of organisations, including museums, to enable people of all ages and backgrounds to engage with numeracy and mathematics. Here are some low cost ways your museum can get involved - it's the taking part that counts!
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Facing the Future: Edinburgh Science Festival 2024
It's Spring in Edinburgh means, which means the return of the Edinburgh Science Festival (30 March - 14 April)! This years theme is Shaping the Future, and we've browsed through the programme to pick out some of our maths highlights for you.
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Maths for Climate Change
To mark World Meteorological Day (23 March), we are delighted to share a guest post from Professor Sylvia Knight, Head of Education at the Royal Meteorological Society, to introduce their new Climate Change Concept tool and show how teachers can use it to support maths in the curriculum.
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Mathscot Competition Winners
In January, we launched a competition and invited children from across Scotland to design a mascot for us. We are delighted to announce the winners, and to introduce you to our new 'Mathscot'!
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Maths Tales: Origami Bookmark
Our theme this year is Maths Tales, so for World Book Day we are showing you how to fold an origami bookmark.
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Scottish Science Festivals in 2024
We love science festivals here at Maths Week Scotland, as there's always lots of maths involved! To help you keep up to date with all the science festivals happening in Scotland this year, we've made a list of the ones we know about and we'll update the list throughout the year.
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#ShowYourWorking Campaign 2024
Find out how to get involved with our annual campaign, that aims to highlight how maths is relevant across all job sectors!
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Maths Week Scotland for Libraries: How to get involved
Maths Week Scotland works with a range of organisations, including libraries, to enable people of all ages and backgrounds to engage with numeracy and mathematics. Here are some low cost ways your library can get involved - it's the taking part that counts!
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Design-a-Mathscot Competition
Maths Week Scotland needs a mascot - or as we like to call it, Mathscot - so we are inviting YOU to help us design one, which will feature prominently in this year's 'Maths Tales' theme.