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Year 1 Place Value to 20 outdoor lesson plans

Year 1 - Place value to 20

This unit of outdoor maths lessons develops children’s confidence with place value, counting, and number formation up to 20 through active, large-scale, and nature-based activities. From counting circles and number hunts to games exploring one more, one less, and partitioning, pupils will build fluency, problem-solving skills, and motor development—all while enjoying the fresh air.

Lesson Plans

Counting forwards and backwards up to 20

Bring plenty of physical movement to your outdoor maths lesson with counting circles, nature hunts and our number tap game. Your children will be having so much fun, they won’t even realise they are practising counting forwards and backwards up to 20.

Learning objective:

To count forwards & backwards up to 20

Representing numbers to 20

Engage your children with natural resources and active maths games with this outdoor maths lesson which introduces partitioning numbers to 20.

Learning objective:

To represent numbers to 20

Writing numerals to 20

Deliver an active outdoor maths lesson that also deepens children’s understanding of tens and ones to help them write numerals to 20 correctly. Making this large-scale on your playground will also help develop your children’s motor skills to improve number formation.

Learning objective:

To write numerals to 20

Identifying one more and one less up to 20

Bring active learning and higher levels of engagement to this curriculum objective by taking it outdoors. This outdoor maths lesson contains 3 games to develop your children’s fluency in recalling one more and one less. 

Learning objective:

To identify one more and one less up to 20

Comparing numbers up to 20

Deepen your children’s understanding of place value with numbers up to 20 with the hands-on, visual main activity in this outdoor lesson plan. The only required resources are some number cards, sticks, natural loose parts and chalk.

Learning objective:

To compare numbers to 20.

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