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Maths Outdoors: Scavenger Shape Hunt

A scavenger shape hunt is a simple yet effective way for early learners to start recognising shapes in the world around them, and to learn their names.

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Revolution: Edinburgh Science Festival 2022

April in Edinburgh can only mean one thing - Edinburgh Science Festival!

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Maths Week Scotland 2022: Beauty of Maths

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.

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Maths in Museums Highlights

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.

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Do you have what it takes to be a code breaker?

Test your problem-solving skills and try to crack the secret messages using clues in the brand new Codebreak challenge.

Created by the Open University Code Break is an interactive web app consisting of three ciphers: Pigpen, Caesar and simple substitution (solved by frequency analysis). Earn stars for each challenge, and learn about code-breaking through the ages.

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Maths Inside 2021 Winners

On Saturday 30 October the Maths Inside Award Ceremony celebrated all participants and announced the winners of this years competition. Take a peek at the winning entries and get inspired for next years competition!

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Our #MathsWeekScot 2021 Highlights

Maths is everywhere in the world around us. You've helped demonstrate in wonderful ways the world of maths in everyday life on Twitter and here are just a few of our highlights from the week!

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#MathsWeekScot 2021 - What's on this weekend?

What an incredible week it's been so far and there is still so much more to do as we head into the weekend!

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#ShowYourWorking 2021 - We asked, you told!

In the run up to and during Maths Week Scotland 2021, we’ve been encouraging people from all walks of industry to get involved in our #ShowYourWorking campaign and show off how they use maths in their roles and demonstrate the importance of maths in a whole range of potential future careers for Scotland’s young people.

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Calculating Climate Change on Scotland’s Coast

Maths underpins science and allows societies to better understand and predict change, risk and ways to make the world a better place. Alistair Rennie from Nature Scot tells us how a few simple measurements and calculations can be cleverly scaled up to understand how our coastlines have changed over the last 140 years, and how they may change under different climate scenarios over the 21st century.

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Maths Protecting Our World

Data are everywhere from Covid to Google to geese and it is messy. How do we make sense of that data when there is all that uncertainty? Statistics! Emma Mitchell from Nature Scot tells use how statistics are helping us make sense of the natural world around us.

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#MathsWeekScot 2021 highlights so far!

Maths Week Scotland 2021 is nearly upon us and we’ve already seen an incredible amount of mathtastic activities! Keep tagging your posts with #MathsWeekScot and we’ll be sharing our highlights from the week. In the meantime, here are just a few that we’ve seen so far and we can’t wait to see what else you get up to!

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One World: Edinburgh Science Festival 2021

This year Edinburgh Science Festival (26 June - 11 July) explores how science connects us. We've rounded up our top five maths events from the festival. Which is your favourite?

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Maths Week Scotland 2021: Our World

Maths Week Scotland will be back 27 September - 3 October 2021 with the theme 'Our World'.

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Maths at the Museum: Art Challenge 2020

Maths is all around us. At home, in everyday objects and in nature. National Museums Scotland collects and cares for millions of objects. We have taken a delve into the stores for some maths inspiration to help you enter the Museum Art challenge.

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Maths Week Scotland 2020 Highlights

We are coming to the end of another fantastic year of maths inspiration and activity throughout Scotland! We’ve really enjoyed seeing all of your social media posts and following your exploration of maths throughout the week.

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Maths at the Museum: Contributing to Conservation

Over the last few days we have been hearing how maths is important to people and workplaces all across Scotland with #ShowYourWorking. National Museums Scotland has millions of objects in it's collection. We spoke to Ashleigh Whiffin, Assistant Curator of Entomology, about her work with the insect collections at National Museum Scotland.

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#ShowYourWorking 2020 Highlights

This #MathsWeekScot, we’re looking for you to #ShowYourWorking and show us an interesting example of how maths is used in your workplace.

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The Scottish Friendly Children’s Book Tour with Dekko Comics

This year, Scottish Book Trust is bringing literacy, art and numeracy together with Rossie Stone of Dekko Comics who creates comic books to explore maths through illustration.

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Make sure your sector is represented in Maths Week Scotland 2020!

This #MathsWeekScot, we’re looking for you to #ShowYourWorking and show us an interesting example of how maths is used in your workplace.

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How we use maths in Scouts Scotland

Have you ever been orienteering? Out on a hill, or maybe a woodland, working with friends to follow a map and find those little markers hidden around a trail. Having great fun in the outdoors, staying just on the right side of not getting lost. Do you realise you were learning maths skills while you were doing it?

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The countdown is on to Maths Week Scotland 2020!

With just under two weeks to go, people all over Scotland are preparing for Maths Week Scotland 2020 which will take place from 28 September – 4 October this year.

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Maths Week Scotland is back for 2020!

Maths Week Scotland will be back for 2020 this year jam packed with online events, competitions and activities for getting out and about with maths.

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Women in Maths (Part 2)

To celebrate women in Maths Day (12 May) we interviewed six women with maths at the core of their role and will be releasing the videos throughout May.

Our next two videos are women who work with large numbers which affect all of our lives. Kate Forbes is the Cabinet Secretary for Finance for Scotland and Esther Roughsedge is a Statistician at National Records of Scotland.