Year 1 - Place Value to 10

This unit transforms early maths into an active, outdoor adventure; using movement, games, and nature to make numbers to 10 truly stick. Each lesson blends curriculum objectives with high-energy, hands-on activities that keep children engaged, moving, and loving their learning.

Lesson Plans

Representing numbers to 10 using objects and pictures

Bring plenty of physical movement to your outdoor maths lesson with our number touch game, using nature to represent numbers and large-scale bar models. Your children will be having so much fun, they won’t even realise they are practising representing numbers to 10.

Learning objective:

To identify and represent numbers to 10 using objects and pictorial representations.

Counting, reading and writing numbers to 10

Combine maths and movement with dance moves and sequences in this outdoor lesson plan which practises reading and writing numbers to 10.

Learning objective:

To count, read & write numbers to 10.

Counting backwards from 10 from any given number

This outdoor lesson is designed to get loud and get your children moving as they practise counting backwards from 10 with a range of activities to help build fluency.

Learning objective:

To count backwards from 10 from any given number.

Finding one more and one less

Deliver an active outdoor maths lesson that also deepens children’s understanding of one more and one less using numbers up to 10. This is a great lesson to run off some energy whilst developing your children’s fluency.

Learning objective:

To find one more and one less than numbers to 10.

Comparing numbers up to 10

This active, outdoor maths lesson provides an open ended number investigation that combines nature as objects for counting and your everyday PE equipment.

Learning objective:

To compare numbers to 10.

Solving problems with numbers up to 10

Bring active learning and higher levels of engagement to this curriculum objective by taking it outdoors. This outdoor maths lesson contains 3 games to apply your children’s understanding of place value with numbers to 10.

Learning objective:

To solve problems with numbers to 10.

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