Unionlearn celebrates this year the fifth Maths Workout Week. The campaign week will run 12-16 October with a hashtag #mathsworkout encouraging everyone to take a moment to update their everyday maths skills. 

Like previous years unionlearn will be offering our fiendish maths quiz on Twitter. Check @unionlearn every day, work out the answers to the maths questions and congratulate yourself. The right answers will appear in our Twitter account the day after the question goes up and all the questions are level 2/GCSE level maths. 

During the Maths Workout Week unionlearn is also promoting unions’ stories of interesting and exciting maths learning journeys and publicise blogs. If you’d like to write us a blog pondering your own relationship with maths skills, get in touch with [email protected]. 

SkillCheck has two initial assessments: maths basics and another that goes all the way to level 2. There’s also a quiz on Everyday finances that puts some maths in context of personal finances. 

What you can do: 

• Organise a maths event by email or using online tools such as Zoom with fun quizzes and competitions. 
• Challenge your colleagues to take up one of the online assessments. Your union may offer one or use SkillCheck or Numeracy Challenge. 
• Join Unions’ English, maths and digital skills network meeting online 12 October at 2pm. Register now at unionlearn Events page. 
• Watch out for the Let’s talk about maths virtual workshop 15 October at 11-11.45pm. Register now at unionlearn Events page. 

More information [email protected].