Your search returned 140 results

Best suited for Early Level

Join North Lanarkshire Libraries for a special Maths Week Bookbug Online, filled with numbers and counting. Are you ready to sing, rhyme, learn and count?

Best suited for Early and First Level

There is maths involved in any form of exercise training to maintain your physical health. Try each exercise three times a week, and record your progress over a period of four weeks. What improvements can you see? Note how you feel at the beginning of the four weeks versus the end. A great keep fit challenge you can do individually or as a group, either in class or at home.

Best suited for Early and First Level

Scottish Book Trust's Early Years programme  aims to help children develop a love of books and reading by providing four free bags of books to every child in Scotland during their first five years. CALL Scotland has worked with the Scottish Book Trust to create a fantastic pack of award winning symbolised resources to accompany these books. They can be used with pupils with Additional Support Needs and those with communication difficulties.

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.

Best suited for Early and First Level

Milo’s Money Game is a free resource for schools and families, that helps introduce key money concepts to children aged 5-7. Research shows that many habits around money are formed in these early years. When children learn how to manage money well from a young age, the benefits last a lifetime. 

Produced by the Just Finance Foundation

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

Best suited for Early, First and Second Level

Collie Dog Maths Tales is a series of five videos, exploring maths on the farm. In each video, you will join a different collie dog and go for a walk around the farm looking at different maths (and science and technology) along the way. The videos looks at real maths problems on the farm, and the supporting information includes lessons plans and additional tasks and ideas.

Produced by the Royal Highland Education Trust, with grant funding from Maths Week Scotland, and originally delivered as part of Maths Week 2024.

Best suited for Early, First and Second Level

There are a selection of in-person maths trails available for self directed museums visits. This includes trails specifically for schools, as well as trails for families that are also suitable for Early and First Level. The venues with trails include:

• Edinburgh Castle
• National Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh)
• National Museum of Flight (East Lothian)
• National Museum of Rural Life (East Kilbride)
• Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life (Coatbridge)
• Scottish Fisheries Museum (Anstruther)
• Borders Textile Towerhouse (Hawick)

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!

Best suited to Early, First and Second Level

Miner birds is a series of multi-player, curriculum-linked maths games on Busy Things, designed specifically to put addition and subtraction skills to the test.

In the game, pupils can play against up to 3 opponents, which can either be other pupils or computers. The aim is to answer the questions to earn worms and the player who is the first to reach 20 worms is the winner. Pupils earn more worms if they answer trickier questions but expect some surprises along the way to trip you up!

Available for free with a 28 day trial.