This resource pack pulls together digital postcards, as well as videos and blog posts, that have been shared over the last four years of our Show Your Working campaign.
For a few years now, we have been running an annual campaign called "Show Your Working" which aims to show that maths is everywhere and highlight the importance of maths in all careers - from athletes to artists, and from farmers to fire fighters. People from across different sectors were invited to share how they use maths in their jobs, with the examples being turned in to digital postcards.
This resource pack pulls together digital postcards, as well as videos and blog posts, that have been shared over the last four years of our Show Your Working campaign.
Show Your Working Digital Postcards
We have collated the digital postcards in to a pack, which can be downloaded via the button below. Jobs featured include:
Claire Doyle from 3Theatre in Edinburgh highlights how maths is important in all areas of the performing arts, including dance and movement, staging and lighting design, acting, costume design, and singing and music production.
To celebrate Women in Maths Day, in 2020 we interviewed six different women for whom maths is at the core of their job, including a Textile Conservator, a Civil Engineer, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, a Lighting Designer, a Statistician, and a Professor at Glasgow University.
Staff across National Museums Scotland share how important maths is in their work, including a Curator, a Learning Enabler, a 3D Model Creator, and a Geologist. Some have also included extra activities for you to try.
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.
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.
