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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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Summer Holiday Logic Puzzle

Four friends went to the beach together. Can you work out what activity each of them did at the beach, and what flavour of ice cream they ate? There are two levels of difficulty to choose from. In Level 2, you'll also need to work out how they got to the beach.

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DIY Bead & String Puzzle

Get hands on with your very own DIY bead & string puzzle. First you'll need to make it, then you'll need to solve it!

DIY Bead & String Puzzle
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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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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.

Ideas for Your Classroom
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DIY Tessellation Template

Tessellations are arrangements of shapes closely fitted together, in a repeated pattern without gaps or overlapping. how to make your own tessellation template, so that your repeating pattern fits together.

DIY Tessellation Template
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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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How to Play Sevens

Sevens is a fun dice game for two or more players, that you can play anywhere, any time. It encourages number and quantity recognition, and basic addition skills.

Sevens Tutorial
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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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Dots & Boxes

Whether you’re travelling and need something to keep the kids busy on the road, or looking for a boredom buster back at home, you can’t go wrong with this quick and easy pen and paper game.

Dots & Boxes Tutorial
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Lego Pentomino Puzzle

A pentomino puzzle is a tiling puzzle with lots of different solutions, that helps build problem solving skills and strategic thinking. Dig out your Lego to create your own puzzle!

Lego Pentominoes Tutorial
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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

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National Galleries Scotland: The Beauty of Maths

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

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National Galleries Scotland: Maths in Motion

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

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How to Play Dara

Learn how to play Dara - a row building game from Northwest Africa, that encourages number sense, logical thinking and spacial perception.

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Scots Numbers

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!

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Maths Games & Activities for the Beach

Oh we do like to be beside the seaside... Keep up your maths over the summer holidays, with our fun games and activities to do at the beach.

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Shape Scavenger Hunt

Best suited for Early, First and Second Level

A scavenger hunt is a great way to get out and about and have some fun with maths. Go on a Shape Hunt outdoors, looking for how many different shapes you can find. Why not document what you find and share your photographs with us online!

Maths Outdoors: Scavenger Shape Hunt
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Maths Outdoors: 30 Days Wild

We love taking our maths outdoors, so we've come up with 30 fun ideas to do together as a family, that will get you active in nature and incorporate some maths along the way. Complete with downloadable calendar of ideas, and a set of 30 activity 'cards'.

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Spring & Easter Puzzles

We've put together 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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Events Map

Browse our map for Maths Week Scotland events taking place near you.
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Shape Mice

Best suited for Early, First and Second Level

Celebrate Burns Night with this shape activity, in honour of one of Robert Burns' most well known poems, 'To a Mouse'. Cut out shapes of different sizes from coloured paper or card, and arrange them to create mice. What other shapes can you use? How about a pentagon or a hexagon mouse?

To a (Shape) Mouse