Learning Resources

Best suited for Early and First Level

All too often, a barrier to learning is a child's lack of confidence in their own ability, which is why the NumBots Scrapheap Stories were created, free for everyone to enjoy on YouTube. Each adventure serves as a gateway to a different growth mindsets, such as developing resilience, independent learning, respect, teamwork and more.

Best suited for Early, First and Second Level

Twinkl Scotland have been working in collaboration with Maths Week Scotland to produce a wide range of resources linking to and informed by Curriculum for Excellence, which support teaching and learning maths. These free resources include talking cards, activity sheets and classroom ideas to get pupils talking about and engaging with maths. NEW RESOURCES ADDED FOR 2025!

Best suited for Early, First and Second Level

These MNU planners cover a variety of CfE Es & Os across the Maths and Numeracy Curriculum, and support Maths Week Scotland’s 2025 theme, Wild Maths, by looking at maths in the natural world.

Click the link below for resources for Early, First, and Second Level students.

Developed by LOST and the East Ayrshire SAC Numeracy team.

Best suited for Early, First and Second Level

Explore money and the environment with free resource packs from Just Finance Foundation.

Sign up now to access a wide range of curriculum-linked activities designed to spark real-life learning in your classroom. From ELC to P7, you’ll get resources like:

• A Maths Week activity pack
• Milo’s Money magazine: Issue 3 – all about money and the environment
• Range of resources made by our team of experts

These resources are free to use and created to help you link maths to real-world life skills — including saving, spending, and sustainability.

Best suited for Early, First and Second Level

This resource aims to inspire learning about maths, through art. We’ve put together a powerpoint ready for you to use in school, or print out to use on a gallery visit to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

You can select the tasks that best suit your learners, try them in any order and adapt to suit. Activities include: Tesselation, Scale, Favourite numbers, Describing Shape, Symmetry and Pattern.

Created by National Galleries Scotland

Best suited for Early, First and Second Level

This resource offers six activities to ignite interest in both maths and art. We’ve put together a slide show ready for use in your setting.

Activities include symmetry, balance, speed, moving objects and pattern. Questions and tasks are deliberately open-ended to encourage learners to problem solve and develop their creativity skills.

Created by National Galleries Scotland

Best suited for Early, First and Second Level

Scots Language Centre have a set of numbers in Scots which are useful for teaching purposes. The numbers are available as a downloadable PDF, along with a list of suggested activities and associated materials. Use them as part of your classroom display, in sequencing exercises, numeracy tasks and more!

Best suited to Early, First and Second Level

Miner birds is a series of multi-player, curriculum-linked maths games on Busy Things, designed specifically to put addition and subtraction skills to the test.

In the game, pupils can play against up to 3 opponents, which can either be other pupils or computers. The aim is to answer the questions to earn worms and the player who is the first to reach 20 worms is the winner.

Pupils earn more worms if they answer trickier questions but expect some surprises along the way to trip you up!

Best suited for First Level

These ancient Egyptian maths worksheets are designed to explore maths and ancient Egypt.

• Count Like An Ancient Egyptian: Explore how ancient Egyptians wrote and used numbers.
• Pyramid stones: Discover how huge stones were moved across Egypt to build the pyramids.
• The Rhind papyrus: Try to crack this real ancient Egyptian maths problem.

Created by National Museums Scotland

Best suited for First Level

The Rainbow Quiz is a set of audio quizzes for First Level classes, presented by BBC Scotland's Catriona Shearer.

Best suited for First Level

Busy Things highlight three of their engaging activities for Maths Week Scotland 2025, along with one of their teacher tools, which will support you when celebrating maths in nature.

‘Flowers’ is a Maths activity that explores symmetry. Pupils choose one of the four flower templates to decorate, and can use a whole range of colours, textures and stamps to do so. Want to extend the activity and make it wilder? Print out the Busy Things’ template and ask the children to create a symmetrical flower head using natural materials from the playground or park, like sticks and leaves.