Course | Taking Maths Outdoors: Primary for Individual Users

Price

£30

Taking Maths Outdoors: Primary is an online course that will introduce you to a variety of ways to develop maths outdoors across the primary age range. This includes tips on behavior management, a useful kit, and practical ideas to support ongoing experiences in any outdoor space.

About This Course

School grounds are ideal environments for teaching mathematical skills. From calculating the perimeter of your outdoor space to exploring symmetry by examining leaves, pupils are constantly required to estimate, measure, calculate, collect, recognize patterns, and more while working outdoors.

Although some outdoor environments are more suited to specific maths lessons than others, it is important to remember that all outdoor spaces can have value for learning. Involving pupils in a wide range of meaningful experiences helps to support mathematical understanding – and this is far more important than the space they use.
Taking Maths Outdoors: Primary will introduce you to new ideas, research, and practice to help develop your confidence in an outdoor learning setting.
During this online course, you will:
Develop your knowledge on establishing routines, behavior for learning, and useful kit to support your outdoor lessons
Reflect on ideas for teaching children maths through outdoor learning and contextualized real-world experiences
Increase your understanding of how maths can be taken outdoors in any space, including the school grounds and a local walk to green spaces.

Course Curriculum

Preparing the Ground: Sowing the Seed

Sowing the seed: Your learning
Sowing the seed: Welcome by Steve Moiz

Preparing the Ground: Nurturing the Seed

Nurturing the seed: Your learning outcomes

Encouraging Shoots

Encouraging shoots: Establishing a routine, behavior for learning, and useful kit
Encouraging shoots: Using the school grounds to teach mathematical skills
Encouraging shoots: The importance of outdoor maths activities
Encouraging shoots: Number and number processes
Encouraging shoots: Measurement
Encouraging shoots: Shape
Encouraging shoots: Data Handling
Encouraging shoots: Making the most of available resources
Encouraging shoots: Making use of local greenspace

Flowering

Flowering: Taking new learning in your setting

Sowing New Seeds

Sowing new seeds: Final reflection
Sowing new seeds: End of topic quiz
Sowing new seeds: Assignment
Before you go