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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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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.

Maths Tales RPG
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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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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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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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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.

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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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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!

Lego HeartTutorial
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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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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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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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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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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.

Shut the Box Tutorial
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How to Play 'Trash'

The card game 'Trash' (also known as 'Garbage') is great for number recognition and for practicing number sequences. All you need is a standard deck of 52 playing cards.

'Trash' 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

Maths Makes Art
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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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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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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.

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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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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

Events Map

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