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Congratulations to the winners of our Finn Finity's Wild Maths Adventure Contest for Early Years! We received over 50 entries from ELCs and P1s across Scotland. Head over to our website to view the winning entries mathsweek.scot/news/finns-w...

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Photograph of a fern unfurling, over which has been superimposed an illustration to the Maths Week Scotland mascot Finn Finity standing amongst some tall grass.
November 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Our children showed great interest in building the Three Bears’ house, which led to a brilliant idea – we decided to rebuild our shelter and turn it into a Numeracy Den! 🧱🐻 A wonderful example of child-led learning and teamwork in action. #MathsWeekScot #LearningThroughPlay
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Congratulations to the winners of our Fibonacci Poetry Competition! With over 300 entries, it was not an easy choice. Find out more, and read the poems from the other finalists, on our website >> mathsweek.scot/news/fibonac...

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Little Robin by Theadora from Portobello High School (1) Come (1) Now (2) Bright Eyed (3) Little beast, (5) Bring us our winter (8) Bring the long-waited snow and cold, (13) And then you can feast on the holly’s red fruits ‘till spring (21) And your wonderful song will share share many stories needing told. So come, little robin. Gaming by Max from Kinlochbervie High School (1) Games (1) Console (2) Grab controller (3) Turn it on (5) Pick the game to play (8) Start the game and have lots of fun (13) Lose alot but win the game turn it off start again the next day. Hiding from winter, hoping for daisies by Cynthia from St Mary’s Music School (1) Five, (1) Six, (2) Seven, (3) Eight, nine, ten. (5) I’ll count the daisies (8) Before summer turns to autumn (13) Before the sky turns into a dusty shade of grey (21) Before the lakes form an icy shield, guarding the depth of the lake from all its secrets. (34) Before daylights duration increasingly starts to grow dimmer, while the cold, snowy and eerie nights are feeling unearthly and endless. (55) Soon we will meet winter’s chilly embrace. I will watch the icicles form under the rising sun, and the birds fly back and forth as the sun sets. Yet I still sit here and wish for the daisies to appear once again. There is hope. The Magic of Maths by Donald from Stirling (1) Life (1) Is (2) Superb (3) When Maths is (5) Part of the Magic! (8) The Wonders of the universe (13) Can start to be explored and understood with numbers (21) Astronomy, Time, Nature, the whole world around us, everything! comes to life with Maths (34) Unknown Planets orbiting distant suns, movements in our own solar system, the moon, the tides, the rhythm of our own lives. All down to Maths. (55) Our Mountains, Lochs, Valleys, Seas, created by ice-age forces, seemingly at ease. Maths explains events from our past, bringing logic and sense as we explore the facts. Dive into numbers, make it all fun - Maths is your number one! (89) Wing span of an eagle, speed of a hare. A ptarmigans plumage on the mountains, the temperature up there. The patterns of nature, plants and leaves, the lifespan, the carbon capture of trees. The height of Ben Nevis, the depth of Loch Ness, the two hundred and eighty-two munros, the thirty-thousand lochs, more or less! Let the Magic of Maths and Nature light up your life!
November 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Anyone else watching the Great British Bake off final? There are a multitude of maths and numeracy skills involved in baking.

Find out more about learning maths through baking >> www.mathsweek.scot/news/learnin...

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November 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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The #MathsWeekScot team is at the National Museum of Flight in #EastLothian today (Sun 2 Nov) for Science Sunday! Lots of fun STEM activities included in your admission in the Concorde Hangar until 3pm mathsweek.scot/events/scien...

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The photo shows a welcome desk in the Concorde Hangar at the museum of flight. Behind the desk you can see a picture of a plane, and some further desks with games set up on them.
November 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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This year for #Halloween, we've created some new spooky puzzles to hone your maths skills - from counting & pattern recognition, to logical thinking & code cracking. Download your free copy! mathsweek.scot/news/hallowe...

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A collage of previews from various Halloween puzzle sheets, including a pigpen cipher code cracker, sudoku with spooky symbols instead of numbers, and a Halloween themed logic puzzle.
October 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Download your FREE copy of the Wild Maths activity booklet developed by Dumfries & Galloway Outdoor and Woodland Learning Group (DGOWL), supported by grant funding from #MathsWeekScot mathsweek.scot/news/new-wil...

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The image shows a preview - three pages in total - of a printable booklet entitled: "Wild Maths - Games and activities for you to play outdoors"
October 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Great to see our Wild Maths theme inspiring part of the @scotwildlife.bsky.social Wildlife Watch Training Day in Perth! scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/2025/10/wild...

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Wildlife Watch Training Day, Perth
At the Scottish Wildlife Trust, we have a network of Wildlife Watch groups – our nature clubs for children. Wildlife Watch provides unparalleled opportunities for young people to connect with nature a...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Last chance to enter the final round of #MathsWeekScot competitions - all closing Friday 10 October!

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mathsweek.scot Maths Week Scotland @mathsweek.scot · Oct 6
Don't miss the deadline this coming Friday, 10 October, for our final round of #MathsWeekScot competitions:

⭐ Maths Wi Nae Borders (Secondary School)
⭐ Graph Craft (age 11-16)
⭐ SuperQuesters (age 4-12)

Info for all on our website mathsweek.scot/schools/math...

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A collage of different images advertising three competitions, with the text Competitions Closing on 10 November: Maths Wi Nae Borders, Graph Craft, SuperQuesters
October 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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We've rounded up some highlights of the Wild Maths themed posts that were shared with us during #MathsWeekScot this year: mathsweek.scot/news/maths-w...

(Preview image by Oakgrove Primary School)

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October 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Are you a student in #Scotland?

You could enter our infographic competition & win a lovely bundle of books related to maths, stats, biology & fiction by Scottish authors.
Closing date 10th October at midnight. Enter here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share! #MathsWeekScot
October 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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You've got just a few days left to enter our infographic competition, open to any student aged 11-16 in #Scotland. More information here: rss.org.uk/RSS/media/8....

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October 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Don't miss the deadline this coming Friday, 10 October, for our final round of #MathsWeekScot competitions:

⭐ Maths Wi Nae Borders (Secondary School)
⭐ Graph Craft (age 11-16)
⭐ SuperQuesters (age 4-12)

Info for all on our website mathsweek.scot/schools/math...

#MathsToday #UKMathsChat #EduSky 🎓
A collage of different images advertising three competitions, with the text Competitions Closing on 10 November: Maths Wi Nae Borders, Graph Craft, SuperQuesters
October 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
honeypisquared.bsky.social
It's Sunday night - and we'd love to plan a #maths lesson for you.

Please enjoy some lesson materials spanning #stats and #ecology - with a bonus that we are also running an infographic design competition for students where they could win a book bundle!
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Stats in the wild
As part of Maths Week Scotland 2025, Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith and Darren Macey have produced a set of bespoke evidence-based resources for exploring statistics using outdoor maths. Each set of resources…
rss.org.uk
October 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
darrenmacey.bsky.social
Are you a student in #Scotland?

You could enter our infographic competition & win a lovely bundle of books related to maths, stats, biology & fiction by Scottish authors.
Closing date 10th October at midnight. Enter here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share! #MathsWeekScot
October 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
darrenmacey.bsky.social
It's Sunday night - and we'd love to plan a #maths lesson for you.

Please enjoy some lesson materials spanning #stats and #ecology - with a bonus that we are also running an infographic design competition for students where they could win a book bundle!
#MathsWeekScot
Stats in the wild
As part of Maths Week Scotland 2025, Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith and Darren Macey have produced a set of bespoke evidence-based resources for exploring statistics using outdoor maths. Each set of resources…
rss.org.uk
October 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
honeypisquared.bsky.social
Are you a student in #Scotland?

You could enter our infographic competition & win a lovely bundle of books related to maths, stats, biology & fiction by Scottish authors.
Closing date 10th October at midnight. Enter here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share! #MathsWeekScot
October 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
darrenmacey.bsky.social
For more ideas for teaching #statistics - including lesson materials for teachers and students, and videos - check out our new #StatsInTheWild activities designed for Maths Week Scotland. rss.org.uk/resources/ed...

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October 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
honeypisquared.bsky.social
Are you a teacher in #Scotland?

Your students could enter our infographic competition & win a lovely bundle of books related to maths, stats, biology & fiction by Scottish authors.
Closing date 10th October at midnight. Enter here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share! #MathsWeekScot
October 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Last chance to enter our three creative writing competitions, the Zoo Adventure prize draw and the map prize draw. All close tonight (3 Oct) at 6pm!!

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mathsweek.scot Maths Week Scotland @mathsweek.scot · Oct 1
Don't miss the deadline this coming Friday, 3 October, for many of our competitions and prize draws!

School Map is here (add yourself by 3 Oct to win a goodie bag) mathsweek.scot/schools/put-...

Info for all others here mathsweek.scot/schools/math...

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On the left of the graphic is an illustration of the Maths Week Scotland mascot Finn Finity standing outside surrounded by trees, plants and flowers, with the words Wild Maths above his head. On the right side of the graphic it says: Competitions closing on 3 October! Finn’s Wild Maths Adventure Contest Maths Tales Story Writing Contest Fibonnaci Poetry Contest Finn Finity and the Zoo Adventure Prize Draw Schools Map Prize Draw
October 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Last week was #MathsWeekScot

Both primary and secondary students used I'm a Mathematician to connect with people using maths in their role. Take a look at one of our favourite interactions across the week. This student had explored Sam's profile beforehand and had more questions about his work.
A screenshot of a chat conversation between users jobs534deme9 and SamG. Jobs534deme9 says they are inspired by SamG’s work and asks for more details. SamG explains that their role is split between fixing faults (in hardware, software, or networking) and project work, such as investigating new technology or writing scripts to install software on 16,000 machines. Jobs534deme9 replies that it sounds interesting and asks if SamG enjoys it. SamG responds that they do, as every day is different, they work with a great team, and they enjoy the challenge, joking that they get paid to look at puzzles.
October 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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For #ScottishMuseumsDay (3 Oct) we’ve rounded up some of our favourite #MathsWeekScot museum activities from across the country!

mathsweek.scot/news/scottis...

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The photograph shows a table with large fern leaves and stacks of paper, along with some paint and paint rollers. Two sheets of paper show prints of fern leaves that have been made with the paint and rollers.
October 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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There is still time to enter the @mathsweek.scot competition to design a medal to reward the SuperQuesters for saving River Crest. 🏅

The deadline is 11.59pm on FRIDAY, 10 OCTOBER.

Enter now: tinyurl.com/3bz7fkf5

@pauliancross.bsky.social
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October 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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For more ideas for teaching statistics, check out our new lesson activities designed for Maths Week Scotland. rss.org.uk/resources/ed...

#MathsWeekScot
October 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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It's that time again when we ask you all for feedback to help us improve #MathsWeekScot 🙏

We have one feedback form for teachers & educators:
www.surveymonkey.com/r/MWS2025-Te...

And one for all other participants:
www.surveymonkey.com/r/MWS2025-Pa...

Deadline to respond is 12 October. Thank you!
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October 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM