Year 1 - Place Value to 20

LO: To count forwards & backwards up to 20

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

• count to and across 100, forwards and backwards, beginning with 0 or 1, or from any given number
• represent numbers to 20 using objects
• count, read and write numbers to 20 in numerals

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.

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LO: To represent numbers to 20

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

•  count to and across 20, forwards and backwards, beginning with 0 or 1, or from any given number 
• count, read and write numbers to 20 in numerals

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

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LO: To write numerals to 20

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

• count to and across 20, forwards and backwards, beginning with 0 or 1, or from any given number
• count, read and write numbers to 20 in numerals
• identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial representations including the number line

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.

LO: To identify one more and one less up to 20

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

•  count to and across 20, forwards and backwards, beginning with 0 or 1, or from any given number
• count, read and write numbers to 20 in numerals
• given a number, identify one more and one less

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. 

LO: To compare numbers to 20.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

•  To count, read and write numbers to 20 in numerals
• To use the language of: equal to, more than, less than (fewer)

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.