Are you ready for a mathematical space adventure? Prepare for a journey to the Planet Turasmara. Download and complete your passport application ready for boarding, then solve the six space maths challenges!
Created by the Scottish Mathematical Council
Best suited for First Level
Busy Things highlight three of their engaging activities for Maths Week Scotland 2025, along with one of their teacher tools, which will support you when celebrating maths in nature.
‘Flowers’ is a Maths activity that explores symmetry. Pupils choose one of the four flower templates to decorate, and can use a whole range of colours, textures and stamps to do so. Want to extend the activity and make it wilder? Print out the Busy Things’ template and ask the children to create a symmetrical flower head using natural materials from the playground or park, like sticks and leaves.
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Pig is a dice game for two or more players. All you need to play is one six sided die, some paper and a pen or pencil to keep score. Pig is what's known as a jeopardy game, where you have to decide whether to jeopardise previous points gained by rolling again to gain even more points. As well as practicing basic maths skills counting up your scores, Pig teaches you to think strategically - if you are too greedy and take too many risks, you might lose your points!
Best suited for First and Second Level
Read the interactive story together, set at Edinburgh Zoo, and solve the maths puzzles and challenges along the way. Includes teachers pack with supporting notes, slideshow and more.
This is a great card game for practicing simple equations, including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. All you need is one deck of regular playing cards, with the face cards (Jack, Queen, King) removed.
Best suited for First and Second Level
For Maths Week Scotland 2019, Anderston Primary School in Glasgow created a Maths Code Game that you can play at school or at home, no matter where you live. You will need a mobile phone with the free Escape Team app installed.
Access the game, some maths trails to do locally in Glasgow, plus tips on how to create your own, via the Anderston Primary School website below.
Funding for the trails came from the Maths Week Scotland Small Grants Fund. Content for the day developed by school staff with support from the Parent Council.
How to fold an origami hexagon out of a sheet of A4 paper! You could write a letter inside your sheet of paper first, before folding it up.
In this video, we show you how to make a fun geometric brain teaser. You will need a square piece of paper, a ruler, a pencil, and a pair of scissors. Then find a willing volunteer to solve the puzzle. It's not as easy as it looks!
Best suited for First and Second Level
A good understanding of times tables, and the ability to recall them quickly, is an essential foundation for children’s learning. So at Sumdog, we've made all our practice tools fun and engaging!
Download our free Times Tables pack to access our Pathway to Multiplication Success, lesson plans and times tables cards to use during Maths Week Scotland.
Best suited for First and Second Level
Make learning fun by working together in your classroom or at home to get a high score in physically active times tables.
The Times Table Challenge resources are available completely FREE for two weeks. After this, you will keep a subset of sessions; if you would like to help your learners master times tables with all resources you can upgrade your subscription.
Puzzles are a fun way to learn about symmetry, and you can make your own out of Lego bricks and a base board. For younger kids, use Duplo bricks and simple patterns, for older kids use regular Lego bricks and make the patterns more challenging.
Best suited for First and Second Level
When we build wind farms, what happens to the wildlife? In this interactive talk, statistician Katherine Whyte looks at how we can use maths and statistics to help us balance the benefits of wind energy with the risks posed to ocean wildlife like seals and seabirds. Where were the animals before we built the wind farm, and how many were there? How many animals leave when a wind farm is built, and do they come back? What do animals do when they are near a wind farm, and can they still find enough food in the sea?
Statistics is an important tool in helping us to answer these questions, and helping us make decisions that are both good for the planet and good for our local wildlife.
Part of the Royal Statistical Society's William Guy Lecture Series
Maths War is a great little game to practice different kinds of maths skills, including number values, place value, addition and multiplication. All you need is one of two packs of regular playing cards, with the face cards (Jack, Queen, King) removed.
Best suited for First and Second Level
Numbers can be found everywhere. This talk provides an opportunity to learn more about how statistics can help us understand the world around us, with a strong emphasis on making the examples fun, engaging and applicable to anyone.
Illustrated examples are provided throughout the talk, supplemented with ideas for practical activities and topics for class discussion. The talk can be watched in one go, or each section can be used to support learning and spark follow-up discussion separately.
Part of the Royal Statistical Society's William Guy Lecture Series
Time to get your scissors & paints out to create your own Tower of Hanoi puzzle - and then of course you'll have to solve it! But don't worry, we've included the solutions at the end of the video. You can try it with 3, 4 or 5 discs.
Best suited for First and Second Level
The introduction to the talk will cover the types of AI that children might encounter, including generative AI systems such as ChatGPT. Principal Data Scientist Rebecca Duke will then show how you can use nursery rhyme lyrics to build your own generative AI, starting with a simple algorithm based on the most popular combinations of words and increasing the complexity using random chance. The last section of the talk will discuss some of the positive and negative aspects of generative AI to help children to become more informed and responsible users of the technology.
Part of the Royal Statistical Society's William Guy Lecture Series