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Outdoor Maths
Objectives
To learn to use the outdoors to develop mathematical thinking.
Resources
Abacus Workbook 1 | Hit the Button (TopMarks) | Outdoor space | 📄 Venn diagram | Two large plastic hoops | 📄 Venn diagram template
Vocabulary
Venn diagram | sorting diagram
Today's Lesson
Introduction
EXPLORE - Hit the Button (TopMarks)
Ask your student to select ‘Number Bonds’. They should then select ‘Subtraction to 20’ again.
Spend two lots of 60 seconds, again trying to beat their score each time!
Main Activity
Watch this video with your student which introduces a Venn diagram. This will help set the task for the rest of the lesson.
Look at the 📄 Venn diagram with your student. Tell them that this is a special sorting diagram used in Maths that helps us to sort different things.
Show them that some letters of the alphabet have been sorted into the sections.
Ask them, without telling them first, how they think the letters have been sorted.
Ask: ‘What can you see that is the same and different about the letters in each of the sections?’
Lead them round eventually, if they are not sure, to seeing that the letters with only straight parts are in the first section, letters with only curved parts are in the last section, and those with straight and curved parts are in the middle, where it overlaps.
Write some letters on some plain paper that do not appear in the diagram.
Challenge your student to add these letters to the correct sections of the Venn diagram.
Then go outdoors and challenge your student to find some natural objects. Ask them to find a way of sorting them into a Venn diagram (place the two large plastic hoops on the ground, overlapping in the middle).
Let them explore some different options at first, without giving them too much help, as they may find they even come up wi
th ideas that you had not thought of!
When needed, encourage your student to see different criteria for sorting the objects.
For example:
- curved / not curved / both curved and not curved
- heavy / light / medium weight
- all green / no green / some green
- completely smooth / completely rough / partly smooth and partly rough.
Back indoors, ask your student to complete the 📄 Venn diagram template by drawing some of the objects that they found in the correct places.
Workbook
To help your student recap upon previous learning from this course, please ask them to complete the activities on page 18 of Abacus Workbook 1.
Quiz
*All quizzes on this course are optional, they do not count towards your student’s grade. If you decide to do them, they are a chance to explore your student's understanding of different topics.
If your student finds reading tricky, you can read them the questions.
If your student is unsure of an answer, talk with them about their ideas. You can also look back at previous lessons together.*