Messy Maths: A playful, outdoor approach for early years

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Use lining up to reinforce key data handling skills. For example, request children make two lines, e.g. those who are wearing green, those who are not wearing green. This creates a human line graph and can be used for counting and discussing differences between the length of each line. Change the attributes each time you go out. Your children will have plenty of suggestions here. Mathematics should be accessible to all of our students. Providing them with rich and meaningful experiences should follow them throughout their schooling. Providing a messy, relevant and fun experience at a young age should provide them with the tools to go forward confidently. This is a great book for all early years practitioners (activities suited for pupils aged 3-6), offering a wide and comprehensive range of practical activities that will help children with a sound base of mathematical confidence. If you are fortunate enough to attend one of Juliet's training courses you are in for a magical moment filled with "oo" and "ah's". Golden nugget moments begin formulating, which remains a constant throughout the entire session and beyond, as the sharing of educational knowledge and experience is abundant from Juliet, and is shared in the most unselfish way, that I have only really encountered a hand full of times in my life. The possibilities of your new knowledge become endless, and the concern of what next? in the bid to offer Children better, and more fascinating educational experiences, almost melts away, with each golden nugget that is shared by this wonderfully pioneering individual (Juliet Robertson). Wild Math series by Rachel Tidd. This series of books is aimed at the US Homeschooling movement but will be of use and value to a wider audience. A book for each grade level from Kindergarten through to Grade 5.

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Topics covered include: general advice; exploring numbers; number functions and fractions; money; measurement; time; pattern; shape and symmetry; position, direction and movement; data handling; routines; and the mathematical garden. Each chapter features a section on topic-specific vocabulary and expressions to help you integrate terminology into each area of study, while suggestions for embedding maths into routines are also provided to assist in the development of creative, progressive and flexible approaches to everyday situations. The outdoors is often the most underdeveloped and underused aspect of our practice and yet it yields additional and important elements to a child’s learning by contextualising concepts through first hand experiences.We’ll send you a newsletter shortly. Time to play is critical for every child – share your moments with us by tagging #OutdoorClassroomDay and make every day a day to learn and play outdoors! Maths Outdoors Published in 2005 – suitable for early years.This book was written in 2005 by Carole Skinner and for many years it was the core book to read. Hopefully in due course an updated version will be written.

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Even if you are simply planning a fun and educational activity at home, with your own children, it is good to consider these 3 I’s and how they will increase the learning opportunities for all children regardless of their age. Crown House is an award-winning independent publisher specialising in education, coaching, NLP, hypnosis, self-help and personal development. Wow, what a fabulous book! Incredibly comprehensive and full of exciting possibilities, it should convince anyone of the huge potential of the outdoors. I highly recommend Messy Maths to teachers working at all stages and in all manner of early years settings. You'll come away inspired - ready to get outdoors and help the children you work with feel super confident in their mathematical language and practical application of mathematical reasoning. I bet you'll get better at estimating weights and lengths too! Wildtime Learning– Free collection of resources, many very simple and doable in a range of subjects. Use the filter to find the maths suggestions.

Messy Maths: A playful, outdoor approach for early years

Using a long piece or rope or string. If you put a mark at every metre or yard on the rope then it becomes a giant measuring tape. The challenge to formulate and develop your thinking is offered in the most supportive and nurturing way, you really feel that the session has been individually tailored to you alone, then you look around the group and see that everyone is feeling the same way, as the smiles and nods of approval to ones own understanding are common place amongst the group. What supplements this session (for me), so well is the amazing piece of work that Juliet has clearly taken the time and upmost care to produce, I refer to Juliet's book MessyMaths: An outdoor, playful approach. Either one (book or training session), will offer the attendee (or reader), a bounty of great experiences, in which they are then able to share with their Children, Staff and Families.Games can be adapted to help the children acquire specific skills in many areas of maths. When you do this, it can be helpful to seek the children’s thoughts and suggestions. This gives them ownership of their learning and facilitates a personal interest. Children need time to learn each game by just enjoying the experience of playing it. Older children can assist younger ones. Hold a games session so that parents and carers can learn different games too. Messy Maths by Juliet Robertson is built on a career of academic experience of teaching outside. It brings the recently new concept of forest schools and outdoor nurseries very much into the mainstream conversation. This is not an alternative choice. Robertson puts the outdoor very much at the front of maths learning for early years. I would urge you to use this book as your go-to guide for fostering natural mathematicians out of our naturally inquisitive young nature explorers.

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I have always been a big believer in the Steiner Waldorf approach of teaching the whole child and was thrilled to read in the intro: National Curriculum Outdoors Series. This is a set of books covering KS1 and then Y3, Y4, Y5 and Y6. Each contains a series of lessons within a subject, including maths. A useful starting point for getting outside as a class teacher. Messy Outdoor Maths– Blush – I’m caught on camera 🙂 – this is an example of my maths workshops. This is a primary aged one. Developing Early Maths Skills Outdoors Published in 2015 – suitable for early years.This book has been less widely-publicised and is part of a series by Marianne Sargent, which focus on literacy, science and maths outside. We learn with our hearts and our hands before our heads. That holds true for every aspect of the curriculum and indeed for life - but doubly, trebly so for learning the foundations of mathematics at an early age.

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Maths and outdoor learning really go hand in hand for so many reasons. Juliet Robertson's book holds practitioners' hands in taking maths outdoors with advice and ideas.Our journey in outdoor learning is in it's infancy, but the small investment in several Messy Mathsbooks is having a long reaching and sustained positive impact on our improvement journey. This book is a must! Following on from the success of Dirty Teaching(ISBN 978-178135107-9), Messy Maths reimagines the outdoor space through a mathematical lens – providing a treasure trove of suggestions that will empower you to blend outdoor learning into your teaching practice. It is not a ‘how to’ guide, but rather an easy-to-use reference book replete with ready-to-use games and open-ended ideas designed to help children become confident and skilled in thinking about, using and exploring abstract mathematical concepts as they play outside. Many of these ideas and activities are also beautifully displayed in more than 140 full-colour photographs throughout the book, making it even easier to jump straight into outstanding outdoor learning opportunities.