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Best suited for Early and First Level

Ria Kirkpatrick, UHI STEM Outreach Coordinator for Orkney, has developed a playful set of resources that bring maths and science to life through the wonders of the weather.

Children will: measure puddles, compare sizes, and extend their maths vocabulary; create wind discs to explore direction and speed; watch the water cycle unfold in a jar; play with shadows and light as the skies change; build dams to test how water flows and moves.

The big circular windows that take pride of place in many churches or cathedrals - often referred to as 'rose windows' - are usually divided into symmetrical sections, with intricate designs made up of shapes. Today, we'll show you how to create your own mini rose window, with a symmetrical design.

Best suited for Early and First Level

Milo’s Money Game is a free resource for schools and families, that helps introduce key money concepts to children aged 5-7. Research shows that many habits around money are formed in these early years. When children learn how to manage money well from a young age, the benefits last a lifetime. 

Produced by the Just Finance Foundation

Shut the Box is a fun dice game for two or more players, though can also be played by one player as a solitaire game. It's a great game for encouraging number recognition and practicing addition and number bonds.

Best suited for Early and First Level

Bubbles are a fun way to explore maths, including counting, comparing sizes, identifying shapes, measuring, and describing movement and direction. For our 2023 theme 'Maths in Motion', Glenwood Family Centre created a sheet with a recipe to make your own bubble blowing solutions, and some suggestions for maths inspired activities. They have kindly provided us with a copy of their activity sheet to share, which you can download below.

Four friends went to the beach together. Can you work out what activity each of them did at the beach, and what flavour of ice cream they ate? There are two levels of difficulty to choose from. In Level 2, you'll also need to work out how they got to the beach.

Best suited for Early and First Level

All too often, a barrier to learning is a child's lack of confidence in their own ability, which is why the NumBots Scrapheap Stories were created, free for everyone to enjoy on YouTube. Each adventure serves as a gateway to a different growth mindsets, such as developing resilience, independent learning, respect, teamwork and more.

Tessellations are arrangements of shapes closely fitted together, in a repeated pattern without gaps or overlapping. how to make your own tessellation template, so that your repeating pattern fits together.

Best suited for Early and First Level

We’re thrilled to offer exclusive access to our outdoor-friendly, FREE NumBots resource — Break it to Make it! This flexible and engaging activity is all about breaking numbers into parts, a key skill for early maths learners.

Whether you're:

• marking part-whole models on the playground with chalk
• using cones, natural objects, or number cards in a woodland trail...

your students will love exploring numbers in creative, active ways!

Sevens is a fun dice game for two or more players, that you can play anywhere, any time. It encourages number and quantity recognition, and basic addition skills.

Best suited for Early, First and Second Level

Join Rusy the Robot from the NumBots, and learn some robot dance moves to practice subitising, number bonds, double/half and one/two more/less. The resource combines movement with teacher-to-pupil interactions. The teacher can put the resource on the board (one slide for each activity) and follow the steps to do an activity together.

A collaboration by Numbots and Move & Learn

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.

Suitable for Early, First and Second Level

Building with Lego is a great opportunity to incorporate a little maths in to children's play time. How many bricks do they need of each colour? What size of bricks? Download our free Lego Challenge Cards to for even more Lego maths learning! Use Duplo for younger learners and regular Lego for older ones.

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!

Create your own geometric cityscape, inspired by the artworks of Paul Klee.

Best suited for Early, First and Second Level

Twinkl Scotland have 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. NEW RESOURCES ADDED FOR 2025!

Best suited for Early, First and Second Level

We have rounded up some of the activities that have been shared with us by teachers on Twitter, for celebrating Maths Week Scotland in your classroom or school.

Learn how to play Dara - a row building game from Northwest Africa, that encourages number sense, logical thinking and spacial perception.

This fun card game is great for number recognition and for practicing number sequences.

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.

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'.

Best suited for Early, First & Second Level

In a series of four 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.

Created by Anne McNaught and Jo Hall