May 26, 2012 | Maths Outdoors
The maths sticks continue to get well-used. Each time I bring them to a class I see something unique and creative demonstrated by children. One time I had the pleasure of working with a P4 (Year 3) class who have been working very hard on developing their mental maths...
May 12, 2012 | Maths Outdoors
Almost one year ago I blogged about a class that created fraction walls with wind-fallen sticks. This was very successful and really required a bit of organisation and thought by the P6 (Y5) children. Earlier this year I noticed that Muddy Faces was selling a maths...
Apr 30, 2012 | Maths Outdoors
Whenever I facilitated whole day of maths training, one of the outdoor activities would involve looking at information handling outside. As one participant said, “We’ve always done traffic surveys, but that’s it.” Now the beauty of information...
Feb 12, 2012 | Maths Outdoors
There are some wonderful maths activities which naturally lend themselves to outdoor work. This past year I’ve been messing about with fractals and thought I might as well blog about this… A fractal is a never-ending pattern that repeats itself at...
Nov 9, 2011 | Maths Outdoors
Here in the UK we are leaving autumn and definitely heading into winter. Whilst many teacher believe that this means more time indoors, I tend to see the opportunities to do activities which can’t be done at other times of the year. One example is aspects of...
