Learning Resources

Best suited for Second Level

How can we use music and dance to explore mathematical concepts? Get your dancing shoes on and explore symmetry and data collection through ceilidh dance. These activities can be done with a whole class, small groups or objects on a tabletop.

The pre-recorded session is available for you to run at whatever time is most suitable to your class. The materials include a video and a set of lesson notes

Produced by Science Ceilidh for National Museums Scotland.

Best suited for Second and Third Level

In this series of resources, our 'mathscot' Finn Finity meets five different mathematicians from Scotland, highlighting their achievements and contributions to maths. Each resource focusses on a different aspect from the world of mathematics, and includes curriculum links, printable worksheets, and student challenges.

Best suited for Second and Third Level

Welcome to T.A.L.E.S. – Thinking and Learning, Exploring, Solving which is a series of videos exploring mathematics through tales and interdisciplinary links, created by The Scottish Mathematical Council for Maths Week Scotland 2024.

Each video is accompanied by a brief description to support planning and preparation. Most suited to upper primary/early secondary – CfE second into third level.

Best suited for Second and Third Level

During Maths Week set up a classroom economy system with your class, to teach children financial responsibility through fun, experiential learning.

Best suited for Second and Third/Fourth Level

This series of five videos focuses on the mathematics in Art and Music. Topics covered include rhythm, pentatonic scales, tiling and tessellation, and the works of Piet Mondrian.

Each video is accompanied by a brief description, any web-links referred to in the video and a list of key vocabulary to support planning and preparation.

Created by the Scottish Mathematical Council for Maths Week Scotland 2022

Best suited for Second and Third/Fourth Level

Maths Week Scotland interviewed women for whom maths is at the core of their job. Whether it is statistics, bridges or budgets these women rely on maths every single day.

Kids (and adults!) often struggle to identify why maths is useful unless they want to be a maths teacher or banker. Watch these videos together and talk about how maths is important in a huge range of jobs - whatever your interest!

Best suited for Second and Third/Fourth Level

Learn with Will is a video series of Maths, Science and English. Join Chris and Will on their magical adventures as they bring stone circles to life and summon magical forest spirits, to help you learn about measuring circles.

In Bringing Magic Circles to Life, you'll learn how to measure different parts of a circle, like the radius, diameter, circumference, and area. And in Summon Magical Forest Spirits, you’ll learn how to measure more parts of a circle, like the arc and sector. And there's worksheets to download too, if you want to keep practicing.

Content by Learn with Will

Best suited for Third/Fourth Level

Navigating our World has been developed by the Learning and Engagement Team at Dynamic Earth, with funding from Maths Week Scotland, to highlight the maths in the world around us and relate it to topics such as outer space, map reading, and world history.

In this workshop we give an introduction to navigation; discuss the history and uses of latitude and longitude; visit Edinburgh’s One O’clock Gun and discuss the speed of sound; look at how satellite navigation works; and wrap it all up with a timeline of the entire history of navigation. Ideal for learners working across second-fourth level and can be access in a modular and on-demand way through videos and downloadable resources in your classroom