What are your favorite math podcasts for parents? So far I’ve got Math Therapy…
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It's Shrove Tuesday today, also known as Pancake Day in the UK. You know how much we love baking here at Maths Week Scotland, and pancakes are no different, so here's a wee reminder of how much maths is involved in baking pancakes!
#MathsToday #UKMathsChat #PancakeDay #ShroveTuesday #tmwyk
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My 6 yo is always busy with projects. Currently, she is designing party hats for her dolls. I told her it was really impressive and she said “what? I’m just cutting out triangles, rolling them up, and taping them.” I asked her how she knew to do that and she said “I just saw it in my head.” #tmwyk
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Text styled BOO BOO BUTT Fit into a square
3yo fan of Numberblocks turns to this page: “Dada, ten is not a square” #tmwyk
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A game called Mountain Goats, with colorful cards with the numbers 5-10 and little wooden goats on them. A child's hand grabs for dice in the background.
A much needed game break with children. We're working on partitions today!
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Child: double 87 is… double 80 is 160 and (quietly chants double 1 is 2, double 2 is 4, double 3 is 6…. […] double 7 is 14)
— it’s 87!
He operates a lot with counting up and a lot of memorization. And he’s recently combining these skills pretty well!
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My 6yo asked me this morning:
"If 0 + 0 = 1, would 8 times 0 be 4?"
I wrote a blog post about it.
mathforlove.com/2025/11/big-...
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Question is Shade 1/5 of the shape blue. A rectangle is divided into ten equal parts by one horizontal divide and four vertical ones. Two parts are shaded: top right and bottom left.
Similarly, 3/4 of an eight-part rectangle is shaded irregularly.
Shade shape B so both shapes have an equal amount shaded. Shape A is a rectangle divided into three by two horizontal lines, the top two are shaded. Shape B is a similar rectangle with nine regions, shaded irregularly.
Similarly, half of 16 regions are shaded irregularly.
My son, everybody.
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A Desmos plot of a red square with vertices at (+-1, +-1) and a red circle of radius 2 centred on the origin. The "average" plot consists of a set of four blue arcs in between, and a black sort of shamrock shape inside the square.
Interesting question from 11yo Young Bill: what's the 'average' of a circle and a square? After a couple of questions, he clarified that he meant in terms of distance from their common centre, and he (quite impressively, imo) built the thing in Geogebra. I've […]
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New #tmwyk!
If you've been following #vehiclechat (or if you've been puzzled by it), here's some more depth and background.
talkingmathwithkids.com/blog/on-vehi...
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This hotel bathroom wallpaper has me contemplating patterns. Or not patterns? cc @triangleman.bsky.social Is it or not? #tmwyk
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We have a text thread with a bunch of friends sharing the ridiculous things we and our kids say.
Today's gem "Most people have an above average number of arms"
Feels like a good time to discuss mean vs mode
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But really #itaughtmath
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He’d made this map of seven regions where the two that are brown here are discontiguous parts of the same country, as are the blues. This isn’t covered by the FCT, but still - what a thing for a 10 year old to come up with!
2/2 #tmwyk
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A big outer green region. Inside this effectively a line of squares: brown, blue, then one that’s vertically separated half grey, half dark green, then brown, then blue.
When I woke, my son greeted me with a proposed counterexample to the Four Colour Theorem. He said he’d woken with the idea.
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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.
For #ScottishMuseumsDay (3 Oct) we’ve rounded up some of our favourite #MathsWeekScot museum activities from across the country!
mathsweek.scot/news/scottis...
#mathstoday #UKMathsChat #kidsinmuseums #tmwyk
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Talking about multiplication/division with my kid, and they told us that ½ of 12 is 6. So I asked what a ⅓ of 12 is. They figured it out ("8+4 is 12 and 8 is two 4s, so that's three 4s") and when my spouse asked about ¼ of 12, kiddo grinned and immediately said "three 4s is four 3s!"
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Photograph of the author David MacPhail giving a thumbs up, pictured with his two books Atlas of Scotland and History Atlas of Scotland. Alongside the Maths Week Scotland mascot Finn Finity.
Photograph of the author David MacPhail holding up a photo frame which reads “Every Week is Maths Week”.
Very excited to welcome author David MacPhail to the National Museum of Scotland this morning for “Legends, Myths and Maths: A Journey Through Scotland” - exploring the myths, legends, wildlife and landscapes of Scotland, with hidden maths.
#MathsWeekScot #KidsBooks #tmwyk #UKMathsChat #MathsToday
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Graphic with a purple background and white text which reads What's On for Families? Sun 28 September.
It’s the final day of our #MathsWeekScot family programme, and we have events & trails in Anstruther, Coatbridge, Cupar, Edinburgh, East Kilbride, East Lothian, Lerwick, Livingston & St Andrews.
Details at bit.ly/MWSFamilyEve...
#MathsToday #UKMathsChat #tmwyk
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Cool maths fact of the day! Thanks @kjartanposkitt.bsky.social
#MathsWeekScot #MathsToday #UKMathsChat #tmwyk
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Another one for the #MathsWeekScot puzzle fans!
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Another one for the puzzle fans among you!
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Graphic with a purple background and white text which reads What's On for Families? Tue 23 September.
For families today (23 Sep) we have #MathsWeekScot events & trails in Anstruther, Coatbridge, Dundee, East Kilbride, East Lothian, Edinburgh, Fallin, Hawick, Fort William, Livingston, Motherwell, Rosemarkie, and St Andrews.
Details at mathsweek.scot/news/maths-w...
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Graphic with a purple background and white text which reads What's On for Families? Sat 21 September.
Some more early #MathsWeekScot family events kicking off today in Livingston & Rosemarkie! Plus family maths trails in Anstruther, East Kilbride, East Lothian, Coatbridge, Stirling & Hawick. Details here >> bit.ly/MWSFamilyEve...
#MathsToday #UKMathsChat #tmwyk
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Graphic with a purple background and white text which reads What's On for Families? Sat 20 September.
Some early #MathsWeekScot family events kicking off today in Edinburgh, Livingston & Rosemarkie! Plus family maths trails in Anstruther, East Kilbride, East Lothian, Coatbridge, Stirling & Hawick. Details here >> bit.ly/MWSFamilyEve...
#MathsToday #UKMathsChat #tmwyk
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Loving this sweet idea for maths 'on the farm' 🐄🐖🐑
Works well for classroom, home learners and families.
#MathsWeekScot #UKMathsChat #MathsToday #tmwyk
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I asked the 10yo "what's the date today?"
{Looks at his watch} Sept 16
*What month is Sept?
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*What about the year?
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*What's unique about this date/these numbers?
{thinks for a minute} They're all composite numbers?
*True, what's special about these composites?
3*3, 4*4, 5*5
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“Reading from left to right. And then addition and subtraction, again in either order.”
I think he’s got it. I explained how multiplication & division are the same thing, and addition & subtraction. He seemed fine with it.
We told him lots of people struggle with this. “Why? It’s easy!”
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Today my son (10) had his first lesson on what he called “BODMAS”.
Me: “What’s that?”
Him: “Brackets. Order. Division. Multiplication. Except you can do those two in either order as you go through.”
“What do you mean ‘go through’?”
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A digital postcard with a pink background. On the right is a white text box, with the words I am an Environmental Statistician and Marine Biologist. and this is how I use maths in my job, followed by a list of bullet points highlighting the maths involved. On the right is a photograph of the person, below that their name, and below that the hashtag #ShowYourWorking and the Maths Week Scotland logo.
Still on the theme of Wild Maths, in our latest #ShowYourWorking highlight Katherine shares how she uses maths in her job as an Environmental Statistician & Marine Biologist.
Find out more about our campaign here ➡️ mathsweek.scot/news/showyou...
#MathsWeekScot #MathsToday #UKMathsChat #tmwyk
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