Intergalactic Adventure - Solutions
The solutions to the Intergalactic Adventure, which challenges you to use different maths skills to solve puzzles.
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Maths Ceilidh
Best suited for First, Second and Third/Fourth Level
How can we use music and dance to explore mathematical concepts? We teamed up with Science Ceilidh to find out.
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.
Lewis and Caity from Science Ceilidh show us how it is done.
Maths in the Real World Resource Pack
This resource pack pulls together digital postcards, as well as videos and blog posts, that have been shared over the last four years of our Show Your Working campaign.
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#ShowYourWorking at National Museums Scotland
Best suited for First, Second and Third/Fourth Level
Staff across National Museums Scotland share how important maths is in their work as part of Maths Week Scotlands #ShowYourWorking campaign. Check out them out on Twitter
Why not have a go at some of the activities! Let us know how you get on @NMSEngage and @MathsWeekScot on Twitter.
Maths in Motion Sports Quiz
Measurements, times, scores...numbers are everywhere in sport. Our sporty maths quiz challenges pupils to explore the maths behind different sports.
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Escape from Lochdonia Manor
Best suited for Second and Third Level
Use your logic, numeracy skills and your wits to escape Lochdonia Manor.
Work your way through the rooms, find the codes and defeat the guard!
Created by the Scottish Mathematical Council
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Looking and Listening for the Beauty in Maths
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
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Women in Maths
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!
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Learn with Will
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.
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Strategy Games
Best suited for Second and Third/Fourth Level
Use strategy games and transport network to explore maths in the classroom.
These videos and puzzles look to develop mathematical thinking and problem solving skills. Each includes tips and advice for how to complete.
Created by University of Edinburgh
Maths Zines
Learn how to make your own Maths Zine in just ten minutes.
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Create an Economy
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.
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Issue to action: Maths
Best suited for Third/Fourth Level
These resources offer maths teams an opportunity to take an applications approach within the BGE phase. The materials explore 3 broad themes – climate change, gender equality and migration – with 2 sets of activities for each theme supported with a PowerPoint presentation.
Created by Scotdec
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How Many Penguins
Best suited for Third/Fourth Level
Introduce your pupils to the concept of populations and samples by taking on the role of an Antarctic scientist calculating penguin populations.
Developed by the Royal Statistical Society.
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Navigating Our Word
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
Finn Finity and the Wild Maths Zoo Adventure
Finn Finity and the Wild Maths Zoo Adventure is an interactive story that you can read together with your class or as a family, incorporating maths puzzles and activities to solve.
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Careers Carnival
Best suited for Third/Fourth Level & Senior Phase
Head over to the Careers Carnival for pre-recorded videos of STEM Ambassadors about their careers in maths, engineering and space amongst others! The videos have been developed for secondary-aged pupils but some might also be suitable for P6/P7 pupils.
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Maths Week at Work: Careers in Maths
Best suited for Third/Fourth Level and Senior Phase
Join a video game programmer, actuary, transport planner and academic as they discuss how they use maths in their jobs.
Each video features a maths problem faced by them in their careers to try and solve.
Produced by Francesca Iezzi and Aarol Films.
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Maths for Climate Change
Best suited for Third/Fourth Level and Senior Phase
Maths skills are at the heart of understanding climate change, understanding people’s responses to climate change and developing solutions – whether those are for preventing climate change, or adapting to it. Learn how you can use the Royal Meteorological Society new Climate Change Concept Tool, to support maths in the curriculum.