School Workshops
Maths Workshops for Primary Schools in Ireland
All of our maths workshops have been carefully designed to put into context and actively promote to both the Northern Ireland Curriculum and the Curriculum for Ireland.
Maths Week Ireland: 11th-19th October 2025
Why not celebrate Maths Week Ireland 2025 with a high energy, imaginative, fun, Whole-School Creative Maths day for all pupils to take part in? – take a look at what’s on offer below!
Our downloadable Maths teaching resource packages have recently been shortlisted for both a Teach Primary and Bett Award in the STEM category!
Workshops
Murderous Maths
School Workshops Interactive problem solving for up to 180 pupils (with follow-up workshops for up to four classes,…
Maths: Christmas Crackers – Teaching Resource Pack
Elton Elf is stranded in New York – and won’t be able to make it back to the North Pole in time without your pupils’ support.
Maths: The Santa Challenge
With the clock ticking away to Christmas Eve, Santa’s lost the combination to the key that unlocks his sleigh!
Maths: CSI: Christmas Storyland
In Christmas Storyland, Rudolph’s nose can’t shine. Pupils must use data handling, sequencing and numeracy skills to track down the thief!
Maths: CSI: Christmas Bake Off!
A festive Bake Off turns into a maths mystery, as pupils use fractions, percentages and measurements to catch the culprit.
Creative Approaches to Maths CPD
Explore a range of proven, highly engaging, creative methodologies for teaching and learning maths!
Number Patterns: The Bunker
A fast-paced workshop contextualising sequencing and making connections between maths and other subjects!
Outdoor Maths
Outdoor spaces provide wonderful opportunities to explore how numbers and shapes create both the built and natural worlds.
Historical Maths
School Workshop Historical Maths These uniquely cross-curricular programmes see children using a range of age-differentiated mathematical skills to…
Captain Morgan and the Maths Monster
Using understanding and knowledge of shape to beat a creature from the deep!
Family Maths
Uncover the meaning and importance of the three keystones of the Curriculum: fluency, reasoning and problem solving.
Sensory Maths
Students harness a system of binary questions and handleable resources to explore in concrete ways quantity, dimensions, capacity and texture.
CSI: Maths
A series of challenging mysteries to engage your students and get them thinking logically.
Maths Around the World – Teaching Resource
Phileas Fogg has pledged to travel around the world in just eighty days – but he needs your pupils’ help with the calculations!
The Captain’s Conundrum
A pirate-themed whole school maths challenge.
The Pirate’s Challenge!
One of our most popular maths workshops – allowing up to 60 pupils at a time to have some piratical fun with numbers and shapes!
The Riddle of the Sphinx
Acclaimed Egyptologist “Dr Colorado Smith” needs your pupils help to solve a 3,000 year old puzzle!
The Race into Space
The search is on for the UK’s next astronaut – and Major Tom wants your pupils’ help in selecting the best person for the job!
Times Tables Trattoria
Times’ Tables Trattoria gives pupils opportunities to use their times tables in context.
The Benefactor
Money-based maths fun for up to 420 pupils in a single day!
The Extraordinary World of Pirates – Pirate Day Teaching Resources
Host your own whole school, cross curriculuar Pirate Day with our wide range of activities exploring the topic of pirates.
Wild About Maths – Maths Week Scotland 2025
This workshop offers children opportunities to practise a range of age-appropriate mathematical skills and explore the maths of the natural world.
School Testimonials
“We completed a student voice survey at the end of the day and I am pleased to say that the outcome showed that your activity was the favourite. Activity was delivered in an excellent manner showing a clear passion which enthused the pupils.”
“We completed a student voice survey at the end of the day and I am pleased to say that the outcome showed that your activity was the favourite. Activity was delivered in an excellent manner showing a clear passion which enthused the pupils.”
Unashamedly fun workshops
Tapping into pupils’ own creativity, our unashamedly fun workshops engage, motivate and, crucially, challenge the children and young people we work with, providing them with meaningful contexts in which to practise their skills.
Our workshops are available as in-person sessions, live streamed workshops or themed Maths resource packages – all of which are listed above.
Our workshops have been specifically developed to support maths teaching and learning in the following ways:
- To support the use of mathematical understanding and language to ask and answer questions, talk about and discuss ideas and explain ways of working.
- To support the accurate use of mathematical knowledge and concepts.
- To support the use of mathematics to solve problems and make decisions.
- To support the development of methods and strategies, including mental mathematics.
- To provide opportunities for pupils to explore ideas, make and test predictions and think creatively.
- To provide opportunities for pupils to read and interpret, organise and present information in mathematical formats.