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Maths Around the World – Teaching Resource

Maths Around the World – Perfect for World Maths Day 2025! (March 2025)

Phileas Fogg has pledged to travel around the world in just eighty days – but he needs your pupils’ help! It’s all going to take a lot of maths, you see – from calculating the amount of luggage he can take with him to keeping within his budget to interpreting boat and train timetables – and he’s really struggling.

Maths Around the World

This teaching resource pack from As Creatives features five age-appropriate maths challenges for every year group from EYFS to Year 6/P1-P7, taking Phileas from London to Paris, Paris to Cairo, Cairo to Hong Kong (via the Taj Mahal), Hong Kong to New York – and back to London again. The pack comes complete with opening and closing films, together with additional age-appropriate worksheets for each year group exploring the maths of iconic landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall of China and the Statue of Liberty – proving that there really is Maths all Around the World.

Eighty days. That’s 1,920 hours … or 115,200 minutes … or, if you will, 6,912,000 seconds. Can Phileas do it? Well, with your children’s help, anything is possible!

Who is it for?

You will find Maths resources here for all year groups from Reception/P1 to Year 6/P7. Each class teacher will be able to plan their own experience, using the age-appropriate activities

Year Groups	EYFS-KS2 P1-S7 Senior Infants – 6th Class
Curriculum	Maths
Pupil Numbers	Whole-School
Duration	One Day
Available As	Digital Resource

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What is included?

A short opening film to open the adventure to the whole-school
PowerPoint-based, whole-class maths activities for every year group (x5 maths challenges for each year group), which include opening and closing films. The maths topics covered are listed below.
Follow-up maths worksheet activities
Follow-up literacy worksheet activities

In age-appropriate ways and in line with the maths national curriculum requirements for each year group: number comparison, number operations, times tables, fractions, percentages, decimals, place value, data handling, patterns and sequences, logic problems, money, time, units of measurement, converting units of measurement, acute angles, right angles and obtuse angles, 2D shapes (including different types of triangles), 3D shapes.

How does it work?

Once you have purchased the package you and your colleagues will have access to the whole bank of Maths Around the World resources to use how and when you please.

Class teachers can use the structure we have suggested, or work to one of their own.

Of course, you don’t have to use the resources as part of a whole-school event. You may want to offer the experience to one key stage, one year group, or even just one class.