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Maths Inside 2022 Photography Competition
It’s World Photography Day today, which is a perfect excuse to tell you about this year’s Maths inside photography competition!
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Schools - Get Ready for Maths Week Scotland 2022!
Follow our tips to help you plan your school activities for Maths Week Scotland 2022.
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Maths Week Scotland 2022 Activity Packs
Our new Activity Packs for Maths Week Scotland 2022 are here!
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Maths Outdoors: Scavenger Shape Hunt
A scavenger shape hunt is a simple yet effective way for early learners to start recognising shapes in the world around them, and to learn their names.
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Revolution: Edinburgh Science Festival 2022
April in Edinburgh can only mean one thing - Edinburgh Science Festival!
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Maths Week Scotland 2022: Beauty of Maths
Maths Week Scotland 2022 will be back 26 September to 2 October with the theme Beauty of Maths. We will be exploring the beauty and creativity of maths as well as it's importance in art and music.
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Maths in Museums Highlights
Your local museum may not be the first place you think of to head to find maths but in Maths Week Scotland 2021 museums across Scotland showed the importance of maths in their collections with family days, schools workshops and on social media.
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Do you have what it takes to be a code breaker?
Test your problem-solving skills and try to crack the secret messages using clues in the brand new Codebreak challenge.
Created by the Open University Code Break is an interactive web app consisting of three ciphers: Pigpen, Caesar and simple substitution (solved by frequency analysis). Earn stars for each challenge, and learn about code-breaking through the ages.
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Maths Inside 2021 Winners
On Saturday 30 October the Maths Inside Award Ceremony celebrated all participants and announced the winners of this years competition. Take a peek at the winning entries and get inspired for next years competition!
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Our #MathsWeekScot 2021 Highlights
Maths is everywhere in the world around us. You've helped demonstrate in wonderful ways the world of maths in everyday life on Twitter and here are just a few of our highlights from the week!
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#MathsWeekScot 2021 - What's on this weekend?
What an incredible week it's been so far and there is still so much more to do as we head into the weekend!
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#ShowYourWorking 2021 - We asked, you told!
In the run up to and during Maths Week Scotland 2021, we’ve been encouraging people from all walks of industry to get involved in our #ShowYourWorking campaign and show off how they use maths in their roles and demonstrate the importance of maths in a whole range of potential future careers for Scotland’s young people.
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Calculating Climate Change on Scotland’s Coast
Maths underpins science and allows societies to better understand and predict change, risk and ways to make the world a better place. Alistair Rennie from Nature Scot tells us how a few simple measurements and calculations can be cleverly scaled up to understand how our coastlines have changed over the last 140 years, and how they may change under different climate scenarios over the 21st century.
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Maths Protecting Our World
Data are everywhere from Covid to Google to geese and it is messy. How do we make sense of that data when there is all that uncertainty? Statistics! Emma Mitchell from Nature Scot tells use how statistics are helping us make sense of the natural world around us.
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#MathsWeekScot 2021 highlights so far!
Maths Week Scotland 2021 is nearly upon us and we’ve already seen an incredible amount of mathtastic activities! Keep tagging your posts with #MathsWeekScot and we’ll be sharing our highlights from the week. In the meantime, here are just a few that we’ve seen so far and we can’t wait to see what else you get up to!
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One World: Edinburgh Science Festival 2021
This year Edinburgh Science Festival (26 June - 11 July) explores how science connects us. We've rounded up our top five maths events from the festival. Which is your favourite?