Best suited for Early Level
Muddy Faces share their top five outdoor maths activities for young children, all using natural materials: perfect for developing those numeracy skills outside the classroom.
Best suited for Early Level
This booklet introduces some maths inspired games and activities which you can play with your child or children when out and about together. Suitable for families and ELCs.
Produced by DGOWL
Best suited for Early Level
Join Andrew from North Lanarkshire Libraries for a special Maths Week Bookbug Online, filled with numbers and counting. Are you ready to sing, rhyme, learn and count?
Best suited for Early Level
Join Emma from North Lanarkshire Libraries for a special Maths Week Bookbug Online, filled with numbers and counting. Are you ready to sing, rhyme, learn and count?
Best suited for Early Level
Join North Lanarkshire Libraries for a special Maths Week Bookbug Online, filled with numbers and counting. Are you ready to sing, rhyme, learn and count?
Best suited for Early and First Level
There is maths involved in any form of exercise training to maintain your physical health. Try each exercise three times a week, and record your progress over a period of four weeks. What improvements can you see? Note how you feel at the beginning of the four weeks versus the end. A great keep fit challenge you can do individually or as a group, either in class or at home.
Best suited for Early and First Level
Scottish Book Trust's Early Years programme aims to help children develop a love of books and reading by providing four free bags of books to every child in Scotland during their first five years. CALL Scotland has worked with the Scottish Book Trust to create a fantastic pack of award winning symbolised resources to accompany these books. They can be used with pupils with Additional Support Needs and those with communication difficulties.
Best suited for Early and First Level
Ria Kirkpatrick, UHI STEM Outreach Coordinator for Orkney, has developed a playful set of resources that bring maths and science to life through the wonders of the weather.
Children will: measure puddles, compare sizes, and extend their maths vocabulary; create wind discs to explore direction and speed; watch the water cycle unfold in a jar; play with shadows and light as the skies change; build dams to test how water flows and moves.
Best suited for Early and First Level
Milo’s Money Game is a free resource for schools and families, that helps introduce key money concepts to children aged 5-7. Research shows that many habits around money are formed in these early years. When children learn how to manage money well from a young age, the benefits last a lifetime.
Produced by the Just Finance Foundation
Best suited for Early and First Level
Bubbles are a fun way to explore maths, including counting, comparing sizes, identifying shapes, measuring, and describing movement and direction. For our 2023 theme 'Maths in Motion', Glenwood Family Centre created a sheet with a recipe to make your own bubble blowing solutions, and some suggestions for maths inspired activities. They have kindly provided us with a copy of their activity sheet to share, which you can download below.
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 and First Level
We’re thrilled to offer exclusive access to our outdoor-friendly, FREE NumBots resource — Break it to Make it! This flexible and engaging activity is all about breaking numbers into parts, a key skill for early maths learners.
Whether you're:
your students will love exploring numbers in creative, active ways!
Best suited for Early, First and Second Level
Join Rusy the Robot from the NumBots, and learn some robot dance moves to practice subitising, number bonds, double/half and one/two more/less. The resource combines movement with teacher-to-pupil interactions. The teacher can put the resource on the board (one slide for each activity) and follow the steps to do an activity together.
A collaboration by Numbots and Move & Learn
Suitable for Early, First and Second Level
Building with Lego is a great opportunity to incorporate a little maths in to children's play time. How many bricks do they need of each colour? What size of bricks? Download our free Lego Challenge Cards to for even more Lego maths learning! Use Duplo for younger learners and regular Lego for older ones.
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
We have rounded up some of the activities that have been shared with us by teachers on Twitter, for celebrating Maths Week Scotland in your classroom or school.
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:
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 & Second Level
In a series of four videos, children demonstrate how mathematical principles including symmetry, tessellation and 3D shapes, can be the basis for a huge range of art and craft projects.
Created by Anne McNaught and Jo Hall
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