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To celebrate Pi Day, we're showing you two different ways to make a necklace or bracelet that will help you memorise the digits of pi. Wear yours on Pi Day, or make one to share with a maths loving friend.

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A toolkit to engage and empower students to improve their school grounds for nature and climate resilience. 

• Download the guide to explain how the Nature Discovery Map Scotland works.
• Register your school and use the Discovery and Explorer apps  to capture and map biodiversity and climate change adaptation information around your school.
• Submit your student's data and contribute to this nationwide project.

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A selection of Spring and Easter puzzles covering a range of different maths skills including counting, pattern recognition, logical thinking, code breaking, and using tessellation or symmetry to create designs.

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Kjartan Poskitt, author of the Murderous Maths books, wows with maths tricks to try yourself in class.

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A fun way to encourage a love of maths is by introducing children to maths through television shows and movies. We have rounded up some suggestions for different age groups. We have included the aged rating where available. The selected shows and movies should all be easily available to stream or rent online.

We have another fun maths game to share with you today. Sim is a pen & paper game for two players. It's named after cryptographer and mathematician Gustavus Simmons, who first introduced the game in 1969.

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Browse our suggestions of our favourite maths books for all ages, from board books, picture books and chapter books, through to adventure books, poetry, graphic novels and non fiction.

Can you find your way along the seashore by following the repeating pattern from START to END? Colour each square in the repeating pattern to mark out the correct path.

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The Royal Bank of Scotland Thrive resource hub includes a wide range of practical, flexible resources to teach young people to be financially savvy and go for their goals. Search by Duration, Age, Topic, Subject, Skill or Format.

In our Summer Sudoku, use your pattern recognition and logical thinking skills to complete the seasonal patterns. Cut out the symbols and place them on the grid so that you have one of each symbol in every row, column and 2x2, 3x2 block or 3x3 block. There are three different levels of difficulty to choose from.

>> Download Summer Sudoku (easy)
>> Download Summer Sudoku (medium)
>> Download Summer Sudoku (hard)

Explore four artworks from the Pier Arts Centre collection with these art activity sheets. Explore shapes and composition through the work of Ben Nicholson, three-dimensional paper folding inspired by Jim Lambie, Mobius loops through the work of Barbara Hepworth, and geometric drawing inspired by Steven MacIver.

Artwork credit: Steven MacIver, Akasaka, 2010

Best suited for Early Level

Developed for Maths Week Scotland 2021, these resources from the Scottish Book Trust embed numeracy into early years activities. The resources contains ideas for activities, songs and rhymes to help plan fun sessions with a numeracy focus.

Counting songs and rhymes, finger counting and props can help reinforce number sequences, physical values of numbers and children's overall awareness of numbers.

Today we have a really simple game to share with you, that can be played at home, on the go, or in the classroom. The game encourages multiplication and addition skills, and also requires some strategic thinking and considering the probability of what numbers you are going to roll.

Best suited for Early Level

Videos and activities to do with your class or at home covering topics including classification, patterns and symmetry. Teachers notes and plans are also provided.

Content created by the Scottish Mathematical Council

Learn how to play Five Field Kono - a strategy game from Korea. The aim of the game is to be the first to get all your counters to your opponent’s side of the board.

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An ideal story for ages 3-6, this early years resource covers counting from 1-20, large and small sizes, sorting shapes and encourages creativity in an outdoor setting.

To watch the video, including a BSL version, and request the free supporting teachers notes, visit the JoJo Gnome website.

Created by Jo Hall

The punchlines to five summer time jokes have been encrypted as secret messages, using Pigpen Cipher. Can you crack the code?

You can also have a go at encrypting your own secret messages, using our Cryptography resource developed by the Open University, with five different ciphers to choose from.

>> Download Code Cracker Challenge
>> Download Cryptography Resource

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‘JoJo Gnome & the Shape Map’ finds JoJo Gnome making a map from all of the shapes he finds on a walk with his Grandpa. An ideal celebration of STEM and outdoor learning.

To watch the video and request the free supporting teachers notes, visit the JoJo Gnome website.

Created by Jo Hall

We love a good dice game! If you travel with some dice in your pocket, you'll never be bored, there's so much you can do with them. Today's game Threes Away requires five dice - you'll also need to think strategically, and it encourages number recognition too.

It's a Summer of sports - can you work out from the clues, who has gone to watch which sporting event, and what snacks they are eating? There are two levels of difficulty to choose from. In the advanced level, you'll also need to work out what the weather is like.

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

Queah is a traditional board game from Liberia. The two-player strategy game has some similarities to draughts, in that you capture your opponent's counters by jumping over them. A unique feature is that you have a reserve, from which you can replace your captured counters.

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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?