Schools Funding
If you require funding to take part in Maths Week Scotland, take a look at the Schools Enrichment Fund.
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.
Finn's Wild Maths Adventure Contest
This creative competition invites children in P1 and ELC settings to explore and record wild maths around them.
Finn's Maths Adventure Terms & Conditions
These terms & conditions pertain to our Finn's Wild Maths Adventure 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
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Codebreaker Challenge
Use your code cracking skills to work out the punchlines to five Christmas cracker jokes that have been encrypted as secret messages.
You can also have a go at encrypting your own secret messages, using our Cryptography resource developed by the Open University, with five different ciphers to choose from.
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)
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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.