During the main activity of this outdoor lesson your children will move around the space to locate questions to challenge their understanding. Bringing movement to maths in this way enables children to work directly into their books, whilst reaping the benefits of combining physical activity and thinking.
Use natural loose parts in your outdoor space to increase engagement and allow children to experiment with grouping to explore repeated addition. This lesson only requires chalk, natural loose parts and some pre-prepared questions.
Use nature as the context for exploring multiplication outdoors and bring purpose to the calculations your children are solving.
Take bar models and make them large-scale with this outdoor lesson to explore a different way of representing multiplication. This outdoor lesson plan also includes a relay race and a class challenge to move learning forward.
Combining nature, maths and art, this outdoor lesson will have your children deepen their fluency in solving multiplication problems whilst getting hands on with nature and knee deep in fun.
Develop your children’s fluency by taking multiplication problems outside and combining with movement to benefit their concentration. This outdoor lesson plan enables you to record straight into books.