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UHI Wild Maths Resources

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.

UHI Wild Maths

Summer Time Code Cracker

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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Seasonal Counting Books

Winter is a perfect time of year to cuddle down with a good book. With plenty of counting books for kids to choose from, it's also a great opportunity to include some maths in your seasonal story time.

(This video was part of our 2022 Christmas Holiday Countdown)

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Threes Away

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.

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Maths Fun with Bubbles

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.

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Spooky Counting Books

In this video we're sharing three of our favourite spooky counting books for kids (though don't worry if your little ones are easily scared, they're not too spooky).

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Scrapheap Stories

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.

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Sports Logic Puzzle

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.

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Break it to Make it!

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:

  • marking part-whole models on the playground with chalk
  • using cones, natural objects, or number cards in a woodland trail...

your students will love exploring numbers in creative, active ways!

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How to Play Queah

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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Maths Tales RPG

This RPG game about maths in Ancient Egypt was developed by Daisy Abbott from Anderston Primary Parent Council, for Maths Week Scotland 2024.

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Dance Like a Robot

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

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Finn Finity's Lego Challenge

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.

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Ice Cream Hunt

Get ready for some seasonal summer counting fun! How many of each ice cream can you find? For a bonus activity, colour them all in.

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Origami Bookmark

Our theme for 2024 is Maths Tales, so for World Book Day we are showing you how to make an origami bookmark. Origami involves a lot of maths skills, including spatial awareness, fractions, lines, angles, symmetry or rotation.

Origami Bookmark Tutorial
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Twinkl Resources

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!

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Scrapheap Stories

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.

Visit Scrapheap Stories
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Ideas for Your Classroom

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.

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Numeracy Planners for Teachers and Home Educators

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.

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Lego Heart

Is there a greater language of love than maths? Well, we may be a bit biased. But there's plenty of maths involved in our fun Valentines Day Lego hearts. So what are you waiting for - raid your Lego box, and get building!

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Just Finance Foundation

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.

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Stained Glass Window

The big circular windows that take pride of place in many churches or cathedrals - often referred to as 'rose windows' - are usually divided into symmetrical sections, with intricate designs made up of shapes. Today, we'll show you how to create your own mini rose window, with a symmetrical design.

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Shut the Box

Shut the Box is a fun dice game for two or more players, though can also be played by one player as a solitaire game. It's a great game for encouraging number recognition and practicing addition and number bonds.

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Maths Makes Art

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

Maths Makes Art