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).

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Rooted in exceptional early years practice, Messy Maths is an indispensable guide to getting maths right - not just with our youngest learners, but with all children. Messy Maths: A playful, outdoor approach for early years Published in 2017 – suitable for those who work with 3-6yr olds.For personal commentary about the book and hopefully any questions you may have are answered in this blog post. Many of the suggestions apply to all ages but it has been written with the early years as the target age range.

It's a practical book aimed at those who work with children aged 3-6yrs. It covers standard maths expectations but also includes specific chapters on key issues such as "Where's the maths in that?" which considers how to take a child-centre approach to maths outdoors. Wild Math series by Rachel Tidd. This series of books is aimed at the US Homeschooling movement but will be of use and value to a wider audience. A book for each grade level from Kindergarten through to Grade 5. There is such a wealth of activities included in the book which highlights the way that Maths can be promoted through outdoor activities. The chapters are easy to use and the activities could be easily adapted for a range of ages and preferences of children. This book is already a firm favorite in the staffroom and I have had difficulty keeping hold of it!!! I teach maths to Year 6-8, I would love to take more of my lessons outside but when I look for outdoor maths resourses they are nearly always for Early Years or Key Stage 1. Where would you suggest I look for resources and ideas for teaching maths to 10-13 year olds outdoors? Reply

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Maths Outdoors Published in 2005 – suitable for early years.This book was written in 2005 by Carole Skinner and for many years it was the core book to read. Hopefully in due course an updated version will be written.In Messy Maths: A Playful, Outdoor Approach for Early Years, Juliet Robertson offers a rich resource of ideas that will inspire you to tap into the endless supply of patterns, textures, colours and quantities of the outdoors and deepen children's understanding of maths through hands-on experience. Juliet believes being outside makes maths real. In the classroom environment, maths can seem disconnected from everyday reality - but real maths is really messy. These deceptively simple data-handling activities will add a creative element to wildlife surveys and pond-dipping, much more exciting than simply recording on a worksheet. Looking forward to the start of term and testing them out! Explore the size of the circle made when children hold hands, stretch out and touch each other’s fingertips or huddle together shoulder-to-shoulder. Discuss and explore how the size could be measured. This may include: Use lining up to reinforce key data handling skills. For example, request children make two lines, e.g. those who are wearing green, those who are not wearing green. This creates a human line graph and can be used for counting and discussing differences between the length of each line. Change the attributes each time you go out. Your children will have plenty of suggestions here. Messy Maths will motivate the reader to harness the outdoors' special nature for embedded, meaningful mathematical thinking and satisfying, deep-level learning - I particularly love the mathematical garden. Why would you stay indoors?

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Our children are playing shape team games, learning about measure through natural materials, counting, sorting and problem solving whilst smiling, hopping, skipping and dancing as they learn! Messy Maths has been named a 'Gold Winner' in the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards 2018 in the Education category. Mathematics can often be met with disdain bymany of us, through dull, and uneventful learning experiences that we encounter in our younger years of learning. This resource shares with us all what Maths truly is, and that is Maths is a language. We have forgotten this, with the dulling and tailored approach to the subject area, and this resource is a breath of fresh air and a reminder that Maths is fun!The books best use is not as a lesson plan resource, but more a reference to dip into, providing inspiration and ideas to expand upon. Ideas are brief, succinct, and written in a way that poses questions of practitioners and educators. This is a clever skill of the author, making the book come alive, challenging the best educators to expand learning opportunities within their environment. 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. Developing Early Maths Skills Outdoors Published in 2015 – suitable for early years.This book has been less widely-publicised and is part of a series by Marianne Sargent, which focus on literacy, science and maths outside. Children love messy play and with the right invitation and well thought out activity, children will have the opportunity to learn, discover and take part in fun activities, in an environment designed with the EYFS in mind. 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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I would urge you to use this book as your go-to guide for fostering natural mathematicians out of our naturally inquisitive young nature explorers.Following on from the success of Dirty Teaching (RBE210), Messy Maths re-imagines 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. 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. Many of these ideas and activities are also beautifully displayed in full-colour photographs throughout the book, making it even easier to jump straight into outstanding outdoor learning opportunities. 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. 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 🙂 Many of these ideas are expanded upon in her book: Messy Maths: An Outdoor and Playful Approach for Early Years. There are also more than 750 outdoor ideas and suggestions on her blog, I’m a Teacher Get Me OUTSIDE Here! www.creativestarlearning.co.uk/blog