Maths week Scotland
build money confidence with Free classroom Resources
Planning for Maths Week Scotland? Explore money matters with our free resource packs.
Sign up now to access a wide range of curriculum-linked activities designed to spark real-life learning in your classroom. From P1 to P7, you’ll get resources like:
A Maths Week activity pack
Milo’s Money magazine
These resources are free to use and created to help you link maths to real-world life skills.
Free Maths resources and training for primary schools
Explore free primary school lesson plans, activites, worksheets and teaching resources to help you teach maths and financial literacy.
Research shows that the connection between mathematics and financial literacy is important. By combining maths and finance in your classroom, you are preparing the next generation with maths lessons they can apply in the real world.
LifeSavers, our financial education programme, puts age-appropriate learning materials into the hands of teachers and children in primary schools.
Our resources have been developed to help children develop relevant maths based skills through CPD training for teachers, engaging worksheets and invaluable teaching materials. All of our resources are curriculum linked, covering subjects including Maths and Health and Wellbeing.
curriculum for excellence
All of our resources are curriculum-linked and cover a range of topics, subjects and skills. These are some of the Numeracy Experiences and Outcomes covered throughout our LifeSavers programme:
Early level
I am developing my awareness of how money is used and can recognise and use a range of coins.
first level
I can use money to pay for items and can work out how much change I should receive.
I have investigated how different combinations of coins and notes can be used to pay for goods or be given in change.
second level
I can manage money, compare costs from different retailers, and determine what I can afford to buy.
I understand the costs, benefits and risks of using bank cards to purchase goods or obtain cash and realise that budgeting is important.
Explore money and maths with Milo!
Fully funded resources - access them for free!
Milo’s Money follows the story of a young dinosaur (Milo), the teaching resources use a story book and unique interactive activities to bring financial capability to life. The story of Milo’s Money could be used as a thematic resource to support a week’s mathematics focused on coin recognition, counting in ones, twos, fives and tens, simple addition and subtraction using money as a context and developing problem solving through investigational work.
There are opportunities to reinforce coin recognition throughout the classroom resources, along with opportunities for children to engage in counting within the context of money, carrying out simple addition and subtraction calculations. There are also some mathematical investigations which will enable these skills to be used and strengthened alongside developing problem solving skills and considering other aspects of problem solving such as systematic approaches and developing recording.
Milo’s Money classroom resources are grouped around the theme for each stage in the story.
All the LifeSavers resources are fully funded - this means that schools can access everything for free. Our generous funders contribute funds, resources and expertise that helps us continue to provide high quality financial education at no cost to schools.
Contact us to find out more about how our free programme can make a difference in your classroom and improve financial literacy across the UK.
Teachers receive:
CPD training
Curriculum aligned lesson plans
Values-based lessons
Assembly resources
