This week is Creative Careers Week (21 - 25 November) where you can find out about different jobs and routes in the arts sector. Maths and creativity may not seem to go hand in hand but there's plenty of maths in the creative and cultural sector, and plenty of creativity in maths!
When you think of maths what colour comes to mind? Visitors to Glasgow Science Centre have been asked exactly that...and we can now reveal the results!
We love baking here at Maths Week Scotland, not least because there are a multitude of maths and numeracy skills involved in baking - from weighing, measuring and counting, to fractions, conversions, telling the time and more…
What colour is maths? How is maths used to navigate our world? And how can statistics and data analysis improve the performance of athletes? For World Science Day, we’ve rounded up some of our favourite activities at science centres across Scotland during this year's Maths Week Scotland.
In celebration of Scottish Careers Week (7-11 November), we've rounded up some of our favourite examples shared in our annual #ShowYourWorking campaign, which highlights the importance of maths across all jobs and sectors and provides real-life examples to inspire young people in their career choices.
Why does a golf ball have dimples? Who uses tea as currency? These were some of the questions being answered by museums across Scotland last week for Maths Week Scotland. For Scottish Museums Day (3 October) we’ve rounded up our favourite activities from museums over the last seven days.
For #AskAMuseum Day, we asked a few Scottish museums on Twitter who are taking part in Maths Week Scotland about maths related objects in their collections - and got some really interesting answers!
In a series of four instructional 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.
We have rounded up some of the activities that were shared with us by teachers on Twitter, for celebrating Maths Week Scotland in your classroom or school.
Maths Week Scotland 2022 will be back 26 September to 2 October with the theme Beauty of Maths. We will be exploring the beauty and creativity of maths as well as it's importance in art and music.
Your local museum may not be the first place you think of to head to find maths but in Maths Week Scotland 2021 museums across Scotland showed the importance of maths in their collections with family days, schools workshops and on social media.
