This outdoor lesson takes reading and writing numerals large-scale and outdoors, using hundred squares to deepen your children’s understanding of place value.
The outdoor maths investigation in this lesson plan will encourage your children to think creatively when representing numbers to 100, creating the perfect opportunity for you to assess their understanding of numbers to 100.
Deepen your children’s understanding of number lines and raise engagement by combining their learning with nature. This outdoor lesson plan is designed to secure your children’s fluency with numbers to 100 through its open ended activities.
During this outdoor lesson your children will build understanding of blank number lines using your outdoor space and washing lines to practise estimating with numbers to 100.
The main activity of this outdoor lesson uses movement to boost engagement as the children move around your outdoor space to investigate part, part, whole models and missing numbers to challenge their place value knowledge.
Gather evidence of your children’s understanding of place value of numbers to 100 with the large-scale representations of partitioning and part, part, whole models.