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Challenges

Test your numeracy, logic and creativity skills with our Maths Week Scotland challenges & competitions

MWS Daily Challenge

Each morning during Maths Week Scotland, a puzzle set by the Scottish Mathematical Council is shared on BBC Bitesize.

Maths Tales Contest 2025

This exciting story-writing competition invites young authors in classes P2 - P7 to create a tale incorporating some maths elements.

Maths Tales Terms & Conditions

These terms & conditions pertain to our Maths Tales Story Writing Contest, which runs from 1 September to 3 October 2025.

Fibonacci Poetry Contest

For our poetry contest, we are inviting young people of secondary school age, as well as independent adults, to write their own poem based on the Fibonacci Sequence.

Maths Wi Nae Borders

Inspired by the annual Mathématiques sans Frontières contest, this mini-competition is for any class to complete together.

SuperQuesters

Use your creative thinking and maths skills to design a new friend for B-bot the robot. For children children aged 4 to 12 years.

Maths Inside

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Maths Inside will unfortunately not be running in 2025.

Scotland Rocks

A country-wide times tables competition for schools, which usually takes place the week before Maths Week Scotland.

Sumdog

Celebrate maths and bring children together across Scotland with a fun online maths contest from Sumdog.

Climate Calculations

A class competition to encourage students to explore climate change contexts for maths questions at National 4/5 level.

0Maths Escape Room

Crack Count Moore-Cleverley's vault and win your school a premium subscription to 0Maths for a year.

STATWARS Challenge

The STATWARS: Climate Change Challenge empowers and educates pupils to tackle climate change using data they capture themselves. Closes 30 June 2025.

Graph Craft

An exciting infographic competition in which students can design and submit an infographic that tells a story about an issue that is important to them.
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Roll-a-Snowflake Game

This open ended drawing game encourages number recognition and counting, and celebrates the symmetry of snowflakes. Discuss why the die has only even numbers, and where to place your symbols on the grid to keep your snowflake symmetrical

>> Download Roll-a-Snowflake Instructions

Case Studies

Find inspiration for celebrating Maths Week Scotland from one of the school projects from previous years.
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Festive Lego Builds

Building with Lego is a great opportunity to incorporate a little maths in to your children's play time. How many bricks do they need of each colour? What size of bricks - 2x2 blocks, or 2x4? While they're having fun, they're already learning maths without even realising it.

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Baking Sugar Cookies

There are a multitude of maths skills involved in baking - from weighing, measuring and counting, to fractions, conversions, telling the time and more! Put your maths skills to the test as you bake our delicious sugar cookies! (gluten free, nut free, vegetarian)

>> Download Recipe Card

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Gingerbread Maths

In this simple counting activity with a seasonal twist, early learners can match the buttons to the gingerbread shapes to count from 1 to 5. The download also includes a bigger version of the template for younger children, so that bigger buttons or equivalent can be used.

>> Download Gingerbread Template

Note: Small parts can pose a choking hazard. Please supervise young children when doing this activity.

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Collaborative Drawings

In this collaborative drawing challenge, one person describes whilst the other draws. It’s not as easy as it sounds! You can use only shapes and directional words in your description. Why not have several people drawing at once and compare your pictures at the end – did you all draw the same thing?