Maths Week 2024 - Tales Highlights

Whether you’re travelling over the summer holidays and need something to keep the kids busy on the road, or looking for a boredom buster back at home, you can’t go wrong with a quick and easy pen and paper game.

A pentomino puzzle is a tiling puzzle with lots of different solutions, that helps build problem solving skills and strategic thinking. Dig out your Lego to create your own puzzle!

Create your own geometric cityscape, inspired by the artworks of Paul Klee.

Learn how to play Dara - a row building game from Northwest Africa, that encourages number sense, logical thinking and spacial perception.

Keep up your maths over the summer holidays, with our fun games and activities to do at the beach.

Find out how to get involved with our annual campaign, that aims to highlight how maths is relevant across all job sectors!

Glasgow Science Festival kicks off tomorrow (1 - 11 June 2023), with the theme "Glasgow's Looking Forward". We've had a browse through the programme, and picked out some of our favourite events.

Get ready for some Maths in Motion - Bookbug Week 2023 kicks off today, and what better way to getting things moving than with a big shoogle to our favourite Bookbug counting songs!

To help us promote this year’s Maths Week Scotland, we are delighted to launch our competition to design a poster in response to our theme MATHS IN MOTION. The winning entries will be digitised and used in our online promotion on our website and social media channels.

How can we use music and dance to explore mathematical concepts? We teamed up with Science Ceilidh to find out.

In honour of Haiku Poetry Day, find out how to write your own haiku with a special mathematical twist!

Now that Spring is here, it's not long until the Easter school holidays. We've put together a selection of Spring and Easter puzzles, perfect for some end of term fun at school or as a boredom buster during the holidays.

It's Spring in Edinburgh means, which means the return of the Edinburgh Science Festival (1-16 April)! This years theme is Let's Experiment, and we've hunted through the programme to pick out some of our maths highlights for you.

Pi Day is celebrated on 14th March, each year in honour of the mathematical constant pi (π), which represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Here are seven fun ways to celebrate Pi Day.

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. Make some to wear on Pi Day, or to share with a maths loving friend.

You know how much we love baking here at Maths Week Scotland, and pancakes are no different. So for Pancake Day, here's a wee reminder of how much maths is involved in baking pancakes.