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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.
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Geometric Cityscape
Best suited for Early, First and Second Level
Children can create their geometric cityscape, inspired by the artworks of Paul Klee.
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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!
Schools
What do zombie crime scenes, fancy dress parades and baking have in common? They are just some of the ways schools have got involved with Maths Week Scotland. The options are limited only by your imagination!
Schools Map
Register to become an Official Maths Week Scotland participant and add your school or ELC setting to our map.
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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?
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Geometric Cityscape
Create your own geometric cityscape, inspired by the artworks of Paul Klee.
Learning Resources
Browse our learning resources from Early Years through to Senior Phase. Filter resources by Level and Topic.
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Miner birds: Addition and subtraction
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!
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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.
Edinburgh Castle Quest
How did maths shape Edinburgh Castle and make life within it possible? These activities are aimed at P5-7 pupils and cover aspects of Numeracy and Mathematics and Social Studies areas of Curriculum for Excellence.
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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.
Cryptography Challenge
Five exhibits at National Museum of Scotland have been written in code! Can you use your code breaking skills to find out what they are?
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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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Ancient Egyptian maths resources
Best suited for First Level
These ancient Egyptian maths worksheets are designed to explore maths and ancient Egypt.
- Count Like An Ancient Egyptian: Explore how ancient Egyptians wrote and used numbers.
- Pyramid stones: Discover how huge stones were moved across Egypt to build the pyramids.
- The Rhind papyrus: Try to crack this real ancient Egyptian maths problem.
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Women in Maths
Women in Maths Day (12 May) celebrates female mathematicians around the world. We interviewed women for whom maths is at the core of their job.
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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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BBC Rainbow Quizzes
Best suited for First Level
The Rainbow Quiz is a set of audio quizzes for First Level classes, presented by BBC Scotland's Catriona Shearer.
Escape Room
You'll need logic, numeracy sklls and your wits about you to escape Lochdonia Manor. Work your way through the rooms, find the codes and defeat the guard!
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Busy Things: Wild Maths
Best suited for First Level
Busy Things highlight three of their engaging activities for Maths Week Scotland 2025, along with one of their teacher tools, which will support you when celebrating maths in nature.
‘Flowers’ is a Maths activity that explores symmetry. Pupils choose one of the four flower templates to decorate, and can use a whole range of colours, textures and stamps to do so. Want to extend the activity and make it wilder? Print out the Busy Things’ template and ask the children to create a symmetrical flower head using natural materials from the playground or park, like sticks and leaves.
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Geometric Heart
A simple but fun maths activity perfect for Valentine's Day. Create a geometric heart out of squares and triangles, and learn about patterns, fractions and multiplication along the way.
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Path Finding Challenge
Best suited for First Level
Can you find your way along the seashore by following the repeating pattern from START to END? Colour each square in the repeating pattern to mark out the correct path.
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Shape Mice
Celebrate Burns Night with our fun 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?
Maths Outdoors
In 2020, Maths Week Scotland ran an online training session with Juliet Robertson on delivering Outdoor Maths sessions with early years and primary school aged pupils. You can download the resources from the session here.