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6 outdoor lessons for teaching multiplication

Year 2 - Multiplication

Bring multiplication to life with these active outdoor lessons, where pupils solve problems through treasure hunts, grouping with natural loose parts, large-scale bar models, and creative maths-art activities. Combining movement, teamwork, and hands-on exploration, these lessons boost fluency and concentration while making multiplication fun, purposeful, and memorable.

Lesson Plans

Understanding equal and unequal groups

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.

Learning objective:

To understand equal and unequal groups.

Using repeated addition to solve multiplication

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.

Learning objective:

To use repeated addition as a way of solving multiplication.

Using arrays to solve multiplication problems

Use nature as the context for exploring multiplication outdoors and bring purpose to the calculations your children are solving.

Learning objective:

To use arrays to solve multiplication problems.

Using bar models to solve multiplication problems

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.

Learning objective:

To use bar models to solve multiplication problems.

Solving multiplication problems

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.

Learning objective:

To solve multiplication problems.

Solving multiplication problems in context

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.

Learning objective:

To solve multiplication problems in context.

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