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Best suited for Second and Third/Fourth Level

Anderston Primary School has created two treasure hunts which can be adapted to most schools as the locations are generic places like the school office and gate etc. Choose from:

• a traditional treasure hunt for roughly P5 – S1

• a musical, mathematical, digital treasure hunt for roughly P7 – S2

Best suited for Second Level and above

Explore the connection between maths, poetry and nature with your class, by writing Fibonacci Poems!

Popularised by Gregory K. Pincus, these poems follow a syllable structure based on the Fibonacci sequence.

Best suited for Second Level and above

Traditional Japanese haiku consist of seventeen phonetic units, which are arranged in a 5-7-5 pattern. For a mathematical twist, a pi-ku is a poem that follows the form of a haiku, but instead of the 5-7-5 haiku pattern, the syllables in a pi-ku follow the number of digits in the mathematical constant pi (π). So, instead of 5-7-5, a pi-ku would follow the pattern 3-1-4. You can also expand beyond three lines, by continuing to follow the digits of pi. Bring literacy and maths together, by writing some pi-ku with your class. 

Best suited for Second Level and above

This RPG game about maths in Ancient Egypt was developed by Daisy Abbott from Anderston Primary Parent Council, for Maths Week Scotland 2024. It covers various maths topics.

Best suited for Third/Fourth Level

Conduit: Connecting Knowledge and Skills provides a pathway through Secondary learning whilst allowing leaders to modify resources to suit their students' needs. The Conduit team has 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.

Best suited for Third Level

Explore Maths and Topical Science through botanical expeditions past and present. Take a global citizenship approach to learning about speed, distance and time - and apply this approach to Topical Science too.

The videos and tasks use historic and contemporary examples of expeditions undertaken to add to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh's collection of 3 million pressed plant samples stored in its Herbarium.

These resources can be used within Third Level Maths and Third Level Science/Biology - or together as part of an interdisciplinary learning project.

The resources were created in partnership with Scotdec and made possible by the Maths Week Scotland Large Grants Fund and The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Best suited for Third/Fourth Level

To celebrate Maths Week Scotland 2023, DYW Live held a day of live webinars on the theme of 'maths in motion', featuring:

• Professor of Mathematics talking about their journey to becoming a STEM Ambassador.
• Stream Marine Careers talking about the maths required to work at sea sailing on ships and boats.
• Firstbus explaining how maths is core to their business from ticket prices to timetabling to how many buses and drivers they need.
• A consultant for the energy sector will explain how maths is crucial to her work.

Replays of all talks are available to watch on the e-sgoil website.

Best suited for Third/Fourth Level

To celebrate Maths Week Scotland 2024, DYW Live held a day of live webinars on the theme of 'maths tales', featuring:

• Hans Unkles, fisherman and boat builder
• Eliza Ralph, founder of Spectral Wrender
• Mary Sowter, mechanical engineering student

Replays of all talks are available to watch on the e-sgoil website.

Best suited for Third Level and above

This set of bespoke evidence-based resources are for exploring statistics using outdoor maths, and includes three lessons: Creature Features, Wings and Things, and Flora Explorer.

The lesson resources can be done in any order and are suitable for students aged 11-16.

Produced by Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith and Darren Macey as part of Maths Week Scotland 2025.

Best suited for Third Level and above

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.

Best suited for Third Level and above

Watch the replay of the Code Breaking and Cryptography interactive talk from Maths Week Scotland 2022. Join Katie Chicot and Vicki Brown on a whistle stop tour of historical codes, where you will learn to make and break codes and see how cryptography is used today.

Hosted by the Open University

Best suited for Third Level and above

Using Statistics to Monitor Air Pollution - Around 30,000 deaths per year in the UK are linked to air pollution according to government figures. Around the UK, governments and local authorities are increasingly taking action to reduce air pollution levels through schemes which reduce vehicle emissions and encourage the use of public transport, cycling and walking. To target these interventions in the right areas, it is crucial that we can understand which parts of the country are most exposed to pollutants. This talk will explain how statistics is at the heart of this process.

Part of the Royal Statistical Society's William Guy Lecture Series