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Save the Date: SMC Conference

Save the Date We are excited to announce details for the hugely popular Scottish Mathematical Council Conference 2026: Saturday 16th May 2026 Stirling University Bringing educators and enthusiasts together to explore innovation in maths teaching and learning. Watch out on here and on socials for more information in the coming months. See you there!

SQA Markers Opportunities 2026

Marker opportunities 2026 SQA recruits approximately 11,000 markers for the National Qualifications exam diet every year. Recruitment for the 2026 exams is underway, with opportunities available across all subjects and levels including mathematics and applications of mathematics. Markers play a key role in supporting the exam diet, ensuring the consistent application of national standards. Marking…

Scottish Mathematical Challenge Mugs

Do you have a mug from years gone by? Have a look at this article and see if you can help us see when the first mugs were given out. adfs::HardDisc4.$.mathchall.2025-2026.Mug-Page.mug-page

Social Media Channels

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SQA Marker Opportunities 2025

SQA recruits approximately 11,000 teachers and lecturers as markers for the National Qualifications exam diet every year. Recruitment for the 2025 exams is currently underway, with opportunities available across many subjects and levels; including Applications of Mathematics and Mathematics. SQA markers play a key role in supporting the exam diet, ensuring the consistent application…

Book Review in The Mathematical Gazette: On The Plus Side

Attendees at the last SMC Conference will have picked up their copy of ‘On the Plus Side’ by Achievement Award 2024 winner Chris Pritchard. The November issue Mathematical Gazette includes the following review of this wonderful book. On the plus side by Chris Pritchard, pp 208, £12 (+ p&p, SMC website). ISBN 978-1-3999-8226-9, Scottish Mathematical…

The importance of teaching ethical literacy, report by LSG

The Learned Societies’ Group for Scottish STEM education (LSG) is calling for the teaching of ethical literacy and critical thinking to begin in primary schools, and for this to continue throughout the whole school curriculum.

SMC Statement on Recent PISA Results

The Scottish Mathematical Council have released a statement on the recent PISA results. See our Resources and Publications section (https://scottishmathematicalcouncil.org/resources-and-publications/) for full information.

SMC Council Member Awarded Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize

We are pleased to report that Prof. Jonathan Fraser, of the University of St Andrews, has been awarded the Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize for 2023 by the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. This award is periodically awarded to an outstanding early-career mathematician having a specified connection with Scotland. Prof. Fraser, who has sat on the SMC…

SMC Journal Archive

We are delighted to announce that electronic versions of the SMC Journal going back to 1983 (Journal 13) are now available on the website (https://scottishmathematicalcouncil.org/resources-and-publications/).