Maths week Scotland 2025

build money confidence with Free classroom Resources

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Planning for Maths Week Scotland? Explore money and the environment 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 ELC to P7, you’ll get resources like:

  • A Maths Week activity pack

  • Milo’s Money magazine: Issue 3 – all about money and the environment

  • Range of resources made by our team of experts

These resources are free to use and created to help you link maths to real-world life skills — including saving, spending, and sustainability.

Children's educational magazine titled 'Milo's Money Magazine,' issue 3, featuring a plush dinosaur on a beach, with several inside pages showing gardening topics, prices of organic produce, and activities.

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 for a future of financial literacy and mathematical prowess.

LifeSavers 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, engaging worksheets and invaluable teaching materials. All of our resources are curriculum linked, covering subjects including Maths, PSHE, and even drama.

Maths curriculum content

All of our resources are curriculum-linked and cover a range of topics, subjects and skill. These are some of the topics covered throughout our LifeSavers programme.

EYFS

  • Recognise and know the value of different denominations of coins and notes.

KS1

  • Recognise and use symbols for pounds (£) and pence (p).

  • Combine amounts to make a particular value.

  • Find different combinations of coins that equal the same amounts of money.

  • Solve simple problems in a practical context involving addition and subtraction of money of the same unit, including giving change.

KS2

  • Recognise the value of coins, by adding and subtracting amounts, including mixed units, and giving change using manageable amounts.

  • Estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds (£) and pence (p).

  • Use all four operations to solve problems involving measure [for example, length, mass, volume, money] using decimal notation, including scaling.

  • Introduction to the division of decimal numbers by one-digit whole numbers, initially, in practical contexts involving measures and money. Recognise division calculations as the inverse of multiplication.

Explore money and maths with Milo!

A cartoon-style dinosaur with a green body, sharp teeth, and wearing a red cap. The dinosaur looks happy and friendly. He is throwing money into the air

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

  • Family resources

An illustration of a student lying on a desk, with stacked coins and a Facebook coin in front, alongside a quote about their math curriculum and life skills, credited to Jo McNicholas at St Bernadette's RC Primary.