Edinburgh Maths Circle

Edinburgh Maths Circle

by | Jun 17, 2020

The Edinburgh Maths Circle is an opportunity for children aged 5 to 16 and their families to join us for an afternoon of fun and stimulating hands-on mathematics. This post gives you instructions to sign up to the mailing list to be notified of future events.

The April Maths Circle has been cancelled due to the current situation. 

If you would like to be notified of future Maths Circle events, you can subscribe to the Maths Circle mailing list. To do that, please send an email to sympa@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk with no subject, and text:

SUBSCRIBE edinburgh-maths-circle Name Surname QUIT

You will then receive an automatic email, asking you to confirm your subscription.

If you need any further information, please contact Francesca Iezzi by phone (0131 650 5842) or email (francesca.iezzi@ed.ac.uk).

Teach Computing Science: A guide for Primary and Early Years

Teach Computing Science: A guide for Primary and Early Years

by | Jun 10, 2020

Authors: Kate Farrell from Computing at School Scotland, Professor Judy Robertson from the University of Edinburgh, Professor Quintin Cutts from the University of Glasgow and Professor Richard Connor from the University of Stirling. This is an accessible guide to the...

‘Healthy Mathematical Snacks’ videos from the Association of Teachers of Maths

‘Healthy Mathematical Snacks’ videos from the Association of Teachers of Maths

by | Jun 5, 2020

The ‘mathematical snacks’ are tasks, puzzles, challenges, and games produced by the Association of Teachers of Maths to support children who are currently home learning, to support and enrich the mathematics taught at school. Many can be accessed by very young children, with a little bit of adult support, and all of them are relevant to pupils across the whole school age-range.

Teach Computing – a guide for primary school teachers

Teach Computing – a guide for primary school teachers

by | Jun 3, 2020

If you're a primary school teacher who'd like to get up to speed on teaching the computing outcomes within the Technologies strand, why not have a read of this guidebook for teachers? Written by Kate Farrell (a computing teacher) and three computer science academics,...

Tangrams

Tangrams

by | May 27, 2020

A tangram is a fun maths puzzle made up of seven shapes that can be arranged to form many different designs. Cut out the tangram pieces and then see if you can work out how to rearrange it to make the shapes shown. This activity is suitable for most primary and younger secondary students and parents/carers might enjoy to do them with their children.

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