Making Maths Count
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Super Maths at National Museums Scotland
8th September 2017 by Chris McCord
Super Maths at National Museums Scotland When I heard about Maths Week Scotland, it gave me the opportunity to think about how we could bring maths to life for schools at the National Museum of Scotland. Maths is key to the development of so many of our objects and a visit to the museum can...
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Maths Week Scotland – What’s On?
6th September 2017 by Chris McCord
What’s on each day? One of the biggest challenges the Maths Week Scotland team have faced is keeping a track on all of the fantastic things happening around the nation – we’ve been amazed by the sheer volume of enthusiasm. If there’s something you’re doing that you think we should know about, give us a...
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Maths Week Scotland – Renfrewshire
25th August 2017 by Lynne Scarff-Mcinnes
Can you feel it? The excitement…the momentum…Our wee nation has only gone and put a date in the diary for Maths Week Scotland and I for one could not be more pleased! “Scotland has a maths problem. Too many of us are happy to label ourselves as “no good with numbers.” This attitude is deep-rooted...
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Maths Week Scotland – Ali Floyd
25th August 2017 by Ali Floyd
Maths rocks. I mean really, look at those angles! Photo: Dr. Beth Clare Maths Week. Maths. Week. A whole week of maths, many years after my last double period of it… sounds fun, why not? It was the turn of the century. Well, a century. Image from http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/victorian_schools/ I’m a biologist by degree, but for...
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Grange Academy
25th August 2017 by David Taylor
For a few years, our Departmental Improvement Plan has boldly announced “The introduction of a Problem-Solving Week” as one of our ambitious plans. We have an enthusiastic, hardworking team who have organised some really exciting and worthwhile events and initiatives (including our P7 transition “ChrisMaths” Competition, annual Maths Camp for Higher and Advanced Higher students and...
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Chris Smith
25th August 2017 by Chris Smith
If you bump into a high school Maths teacher in a Nursery, you might assume that they’re lost or picking up their youngsters. But maybe, just maybe, they’ll be sharing the joy of Maths with enthusiastic little people! I’m invited, with minimal arm-twisting, by Mrs Rankin to pop along to a local nursery once a...
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Netherlee Primary School
25th August 2017 by David Duncan
At Netherlee Primary in East Renfrewshire we are very excited to be taking part in this celebration of all things maths. We have been particularly busy planning for Maths Week and the pace has increased as we have just returned to school for the new session. Personally, I am very interested in both Maths and Drama,...
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Letham Primary School, Angus
25th August 2017 by Karen Frain
At Letham Primary School, we have adopted a progressive, whole school approach to the use of representations in Numeracy and Maths; The Singapore bar model, empty number line, arrays, grids etc. These representations have all supported children’s development and have deepened their conceptual understanding. Our approach has engaged children from Nursery – Primary 7 and...
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Aileymill Primary School, Greenock
25th August 2017 by Laura McGilp
When my Head Teacher approached me in June and asked me to organise a Numeracy Week, I wasn’t exactly thrilled by the idea. But like all keen practitioners, I agreed and set to work. Once I began planning Numeracy Week and gathering different ideas, I became really enthusiastic, and I must admit, I am really...
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Travel Sale Spectacular!
30th March 2017 by Chris McCord
Travel Sale Spectacular! John Macdonald, teacher at Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Isle of Lewis, sets his P7 learners a real life task of planning a trip to the mainland that needs them to use their enterprising, communicating and mathematical skills. Sorry to disappoint, but we’re not actually offering blog readers a cheap holiday deal! Instead,...
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