Education Scotland’s Parent Zone has a wealth of information on how to support numeracy at home.

Click here for some practical ways to help at home for parents.

All of our children have logins to access sumdog at home.

Other free learning sites:

Topmarks

Maths Playground

BBC Bitesize Daily Lessons

Oxford Owl Maths Games

Daily Ten Beat the clock with a variety of mental maths challenges, focusing on working with number.

Active Maths Games

CoolMath4kids Games and Puzzles

Matholia Tools An app with lots of tools for exploring number and wider maths concepts. No need to log in – simply press OK and off you go!

Daily Rigour A great weekly resource which presents maths problems in a real-life and current context.

Nrich Maths A site with plenty of challenging activities and games to help children to develop their mathematical thinking skills.

Top tips for parents and families:

Be positive about maths. Don’t say things like “I can’t do maths” or “I hated maths at school”; your child might start to think like that themselves.

Point out the maths in everyday life. Include your child in activities involving maths such as using money, cooking and travelling.

Praise your child for effort rather than talent – this shows them that by working hard they can always improve.

If you struggle with maths yourself – try our free online tool the National Numeracy Challenge to improve your maths level. Click here for more ways to help your child at home with maths.

Free Coding Games

Coding is a basic literacy in the digital age, and it is important for kids to understand and be able to work with and understand the technology around them. Having children learn coding at a young age prepares them for the future. Coding helps children with communication, creativity, math,writing, and confidence.

Blockly Games for tomorrow’s programmers

Code.org Take a Code break or create a Code Project

Scratch Create stories, games or animations.

Tynker Create stories, games or animations.