Messy Maths: A playful, outdoor approach for early years

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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. Juliet believes being outside makes maths real. In the classroom environment, maths can seem disconnected from everyday reality – but real maths is really messy. Lots of outdoor play and engaging activity along the way is a must, as being outside enables connections to be made between the hands, heart and head, and lays the foundations for more complex work as children grow, develop and learn. One of the greatest joys of teaching in the early years is the expectation and freedom to take your young students outdoors, getting them learning through play, and an unwritten rule allowing them to get all messy! Well, it's what young children do, so by providing them with rich, meaningful playful learning experiences should be part of every experiences for them. Giving young children an early and relevant understanding of basic mathematical concepts is critically important.

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Lots of outdoor play and engaging activity along the way is a must, as being outside enables connections to be made between the hands, heart and head, and lays the foundations for more complex work as children grow, develop and learn. 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.If a game isn’t going well, ask the children for their ideas about making it better. What rules could be adapted or changed? How can they make the game more exciting? ISBN-13: 9781781352663, 978-1781352663. Juliet believes being outside makes maths real. Lots of outdoor play and engaging activity along the way is a must, as being outside enables connections to be made between the hands, heart and head, and lays the foundations for more complex work as children grow, develop and learn. 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. In her book, Messy Maths: A playful, outdoor approach for early years, Juliet Robertsonoffers early years practitioners a valuable collection of resources and ideas that can support embedding early mathematical skills in a most practical and relevant approach possible. Portioned into 13 chapters, Juliet offers ideas to support teachers in thinking about how to place mathematics into everyday experiences, along with explorations of functions, fractions, time, measurement, patterns, shape and symmetry. Within each chapter Juliet offers tips, ideas and crucial vocabulary that should be used with young learners, accompanied by a collection of images that demonstrate the joy and curiosity experience by children.

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Grounds for Learning – Outdoor maths learning in local greenspace. Talking about personal impact – a teacher’s view from the Dundee Outdoor Numeracy Project.It is all written out in the book step by step. Just keep it all playful. This is undoubtedly a valuable resource for teachers, I would say, teachers of primary ages not just preschool. Messy Maths is what it says it is ‘Messy’, and I know plenty of 9 year olds who would welcome that too. 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! The book plants a seed and then encourages you to grow it using effective and thought provoking questioning. Pictures illustrate not only the activities described, but also how a range of different outdoor environments enhances children's learning.

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Thanks for joining the movement, we can’t wait to see what you get up to on the day! Please share this with your colleagues and friends to help us make it possible for every child to get outdoors to learn and play every day 🙂 The book is written to encourage teachers to take children's learning outside. We often see in inspection reports recommendations that settings "(further) develop the use of the garden area to facilitate those children that prefer to take their learning outside. "Messy Maths will really support teachers to recognise and plan for the distinct Characteristics of Effective Learning that they see in their children. We are constantly reminded of the need to engage children in terms of 'school-readiness' and we must work hard to develop mathematical skills in pre-school children. This book takes us beyond the simple building of towers, measuring in hand spans and spotting shapes in the environment. With this book, mathematical teaching goes to a whole new level - who could fail to be excited about making a number line with dandelion flowers, petals, small stones and blades of grass (idea 3.26). It can help to make group estimates where there is a consensus. With older children, the skill of rounding up or down is a natural progression within estimation.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. 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. Mathematics in the School Grounds Published in 1993 – suitable for all primary.This is a really dated book but in many ways the first one published about using maths outside. There’s lots of sensible advice and information and it would be brilliant if the publishers could do a 2nd edition that is up-to-date.