This active, outdoor unit brings place value and rounding to life through large-scale, collaborative activities using natural resources. With creative games, problem-solving challenges, and plenty of movement, children secure key maths skills in a memorable, hands-on way.
Lesson Plans
Rounding numbers to the nearest 10
The main activity of this outdoor lesson helps your children to visualise the concept of rounding and applying this in a practical way, while working large-scale. There’s plenty of active movement involved and minimal preparation required!
This outdoor lesson gives your children the opportunity to cover the key skills for place value and apply these to rounding to the nearest 100. Your children will play bingo, work with nature and work collaboratively in this creative lesson.
Recognising the value of each digit in 4-digit numbers
Deepen your children’s understanding of 4-digit numbers using this practical and hands-on outdoor lesson. Your children will work collaboratively with natural resources, sticky notes and chalk to secure their understanding of place value.
Learning objective:
To recognise the value of each digit in a 4-digit number.
Incorporating both individual and paired work, this practical outdoor lesson gives your children the opportunity to represent 4-digit numbers in different ways, through the use of natural resources and partner challenges!
Have your children apply their place value knowledge covered so far in this unit through blank number line challenges! Using this outdoor lesson will ensure your children are able to problem-solve, as well as understand how numbers fit within the number system.