With Maths Week Scotland 2024 behind us, we can now look back at the fantastic data-themed activities that we delivered in partnership with Maths Week.
Maths Week Scotland is a week of events and activities dedicated to the maths that is all around us. The 2024 edition took place Monday 23 September – Sunday 29 September around the theme “Maths Tales”, but other special events are scheduled throughout the year.
While most of the events are now behind us, upper primary/lower secondary students can still take part in our fantastic Escape Room Live Lesson – Find the Secret Lair (7th November 11am-12pm, online): book your space now.
We are thrilled to announce the outstanding success of this year’s Maths Week, with hundreds of schools and thousands of learners joining us to learn more about data! A total of around 13500 learners attended across all the events at Maths Week.
On the 26th September, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic ran an online session for an incredibly large and enthusiastic audience of 142 classes (around 3500 P2-P4 learners), from the Edinburgh city region and across Scotland, including Falkirk and Aberdeen! She read extracts from her book “Daphne Draws Data”, and the students were thrilled to follow the adventures of Daphne, the data-drawing dragon, who loves turning numbers into pictures.
The story of Daphne sparked the interest of the young learners, who were particularly eager to learn more about Cole’s work and how she combined her love for maths (and data) with her creative spark. Dozens of questions investigating whether there will be a new adventure by Daphne left us with the feeling that the kids will be looking for more and more stories around data!