Maths Week Scotland

Photograph of a hand holding a small cereal packet, which has a shape counting activity on the back of it. The packet says Count the Shapes and shows an illustration of a bowl filled with cereal shapes such as stars, fish and trees.

Spotting maths all around us 👀 - Shape counting on our holiday breakfast cereal packet!

#MathsToday #UKMathsChat #tmwyk

Catching up on the #MathPhoto25 challenge - here are all eight prompts, for anyone who still wants to join in!

CALLING ALL CROCHET GEEKS AND GRANNIES

Do you want to crochet something that ends up in a mathematical art exhibit in Paris* next summer? Join the project at www.grannylifecrochet.com

* We will find out in September if the project makes it into the Paris exhibit

A photograph showing print outs of five different kinds of puzzles, including a logic puzzle, pigpen cipher, maze, counting puzzle and picture sudoku. Some colouring pens are also in the photo.

Download our free Summer puzzles - with a side of maths mathsweek.scot/news/summer-...

Perfect for rainy days, train journeys, or simply if you love puzzles! There's something for all ages and to challenge different maths skills.

#MathsWeekScot #MathsToday #UKMathsChat

The image has the title Emoji Quiz: Books for Maths Lovers, followed by seven rows each with a series of emojis. Row 1: Three emojis of black women, one in front of a blackboard, one with a computer, one holding a wrench, followed by a rocket emoji and an astronaut emoji. Row 2: Emojis of a person wearing a turban, a sailing boat, a tiger. Row 3: Emojis of a thinking face, a dog, and a city shown at night time. Row 4: A smiling emoji surrounded by hearts, followed by an emoji of a brain. Row 5: Emojis of a triangle ruler and a globe. Row 6: Emojis of a house, a key, and a pear; then a plus sign; and finally an emoji of a man holding a book standing in front of a blackboard. Row 7: Emojis of a man, a heart, and the numbers 1, 2 and 3.

It's #WorldEmojiDay so just for a wee bit of fun, here's a quiz of book titles - can you guess the maths related novels & biographies? The emojis give clues either to the plot, or the title of the book.

#MathsWeekScot #MathsToday #UKMathsChat #MathsFun

Week 6 prompt for #MathPhoto25 is #measure 📷

Photograph showing a sandy beach, with a grid marked on it. you can see the lower body of three people, who are standing on the grid. Some of the grid squares have crosses in them.

Maths at the Beach - Cross Square is a game for 2-4 players that encourages logical thinking & spacial perception. Perfect for the beach! Grab the rules on our website, along with other maths related beach activities:
www.mathsweek.scot/news/maths-g...

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Our pleasure! Thanks for coming on board!

Photograph of an alarm system box on the side of a house. You can see a close up of the box on a wall. The box is pentagon shaped.

Spotting maths all around us: a pentagon shaped alarm system box on the side of a house in Edinburgh!

#five #MathPhoto25 #UKMathsChat #MathsToday #tmwyk

Almost missed Week 5 of #MathPhoto25 - and the prompt is, #five!! Still time to add your pics 📷

I'm a Mathematician, Get me out of here! - Maths Week Scotland Show students real-life applications of maths. Connect your students with people using maths in their work through I'm a Mathematician, Get me out of here!

Thank you to @mathsweek.scot for featuring I'm a Mathematician on the site!

Teachers, take part with your students this September
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#MathsWeekScot #CareersInMaths #STEM

Photograph of four bars of chocolate piled on top of each other.

Happy #WorldChocolateDay! Those chocolate bars that split in to equal little squares are perfect for learning fractions with your kids 🍫 Can they divide the bars into halves, thirds or quarters? (or you could just eat the chocolate - we won't judge you😉) #UKMathsChat #MathsToday #tmwyk

Loving all the maths jokes everyone is sharing! 😂

Haha 😂

Q: What ZZ Top song has a boogie blues rhythm subject to a constraint?

A: Lagrangian.

There's always this one: bsky.app/profile/teak...

Oh dear... 😂

Illustration of a tree with geometric symbols on it. The text reads: What's a maths teacher's favourite kind of tree? Geometry!

Here’s one final joke from us for #InternationalJokeDay 🌳 Which one has been your favourite maths joke today? Or do you have any even better #MathsJokes to share?

#MathsWeekScot #MathsToday #UKMathsChat

Illustration of a large herd of cows. The text reads: A farmer counted 396 cows in his field. But when he rounded them up he had 400.

Have you had enough of our #MathsJokes yet? Well, sorry, we’re not done yet. Got to milk #InternationalJokeDay all we can. Speaking of milking, here’s a joke about cows…

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An illustration of a chicken with a speech bubble. The speech bubble has the numbers 1 2 3 inside it. The text reads" Did you hear about the hen who could count her own eggs? She was a mathemachicken!

This is our favourite maths joke🐔 We tried it out on a couple of children, and they all thought it was hilarious too! But you can make up your own mind 😉

#InternationalJokeDay #MathsJokes #MathsWeekScot #MathsToday #UKMathsChat

An illustration showing on the two large yellow number fours on the left with the words. The fours have eyes and a mouth, one is smiling and one is looking surprised. On the right is a large pink number eight. The text reads: Why did the two fours skip lunch? Because they already eight!

Lunch time! And we have the perfect lunch time maths pun for you, in honour of #InternationalJokeDay. Let us know what your favourite #MathsJokes are.

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In this particular resource, which covers 30 different activities from all areas of maths, the focus is just on the number sequence itself so doesn't go in to depth about either of them.

An illustration of a pencil case containing a pencil and eraser. Next to the pencil case is a pen, and a ruler with a crown at one end of it. The text reads: Who is the king of the pencil case? The ruler!

It’s #InternationalJokeDay, so we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share some of our best (*cough*) maths jokes with you throughout the day. Here’s one to start you off. Feel free to share your favourite #MathsJokes with us too!

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A colourful graphic with a blue background and a yellow frame. Overlapping the top of the frame is a white circle with a picture of a an ant with a dotted lined showing the path it's walking. Inside the yellow frame are the Gaelic words "Rannsachadh Bhiastagan" and the hashtags #MathsWeekScot and #30DaysWild. Under the frame is the Maths Week website URL.

30 Latha Nàdair 30: Rannsachadh Bhiastagan. Gnìomh snog, simplidh airson crìoch a chur air 30 Latha Nàdair: Lorg biastag agus lean a slighe. Clàraich na mhothaicheas tu. Dè na pàtranan a tha i a’ dèanamh?
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#MathsWeekScot #EduSky #MathsToday #UKMathsChat #tmwyk

A colourful graphic with a blue background and a yellow frame. Overlapping the top of the frame is a white circle with a picture of a an ant with a dotted lined showing the path it's walking. Inside the yellow frame are the words "Insect Investigation" and the hashtags #MathsWeekScot and #30DaysWild. Under the frame is the Maths Week website URL.

#30DaysWild Day 30: Spot an insect and follow its path. Record your observations. What patterns does it make?

All activity descriptions + free downloadable resources on our website ➡️ www.mathsweek.scot/n...

#MathsWeekScot #EduSky #MathsToday #UKMathsChat #tmwyk

A colourful graphic with a green background and a yellow frame. Overlapping the top of the frame is a white circle with a picture of a Venn diagram with leaves of different shapes and colours. Inside the yellow frame are the Gaelic words "Diagram Nàdair" and the hashtags #MathsWeekScot and #30DaysWild. Under the frame is the Maths Week website URL.

30 Latha Nàdair 29: Diagram Nàdair.
mathsweek.scot/schoo...

#MathsWeekScot #EduSky #MathsToday #UKMathsChat #tmwyk

A colourful graphic with a green background and a yellow frame. Overlapping the top of the frame is a white circle with a picture of a Venn diagram with leaves of different shapes and colours. Inside the yellow frame are the words "Nature Diagram" and the hashtags #MathsWeekScot and #30DaysWild. Under the frame is the Maths Week website URL.

#30DaysWild Day 29: Sort collected nature items based on different and shared features, to create a Venn diagram.

Full activity description + free downloadable resources on our website ➡️ www.mathsweek.scot/n...

#MathsWeekScot #EduSky #MathsToday #UKMathsChat #tmwyk

Any day that involves eating lots of tasty food is a good day in our eyes 😋

A graphic showing the mathematical sign for Tau followed by an equal sign followed by an illustration of two pies.

It's also #TauDay today, a celebration of the circle constant. It’s numerically equal to 2*Pi, so some think it’s better than Pi. Are you #TeamTau or #TeamPi?

Maybe the Tau Manifesto will help you decide
https://tauday.com (we're not taking sides on this...)

#MathsToday #UKMathsChat

Today is a #perfectday mathematically speaking. 28th June (the 6th month) is the only day of the year that includes two perfect numbers: 6 & 28 – they're equal to the sum of their divisors🤯 Dave Gorman explains it, um...perfectly youtu.be/EM46_5Yd5II (contains some swearing) #UKMathsChat #MathsToday