Messy Maths: A Playful, Outdoor Approach

by Juliet Robinson

Overview

Children need physical experiences to make sense of the abstract ideas of math and to ponder, enjoy and discuss the concepts encountered. In Messy Maths Juliet Robertson, offers a rich resource of ideas that will enable you to tap into the endless supply of patterns, textures, colours and quantities of the outdoors and deepen children's understanding through hands-on experience. Packed full of activities that reimagine the outdoor space through mathematical lens, this book is suitable for all early years educators (of ages 3-6) who want to shake up their usual classroom routine and adopt a playful and child-led approach to maths.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781352663
Publisher:	Crown House Publishing
Publication date:	04/30/2017
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Juliet Robertson received an unexpected blood cancer diagnosis at the end of 2020 which altered her life trajectory. Juliet began writing poetry in 2021 as a way of making sense of her illness, treatment and prognosis. She discovered that sharing her poetry was a gateway to necessary, but not easy, conversations with family and friends.Prior to this Juliet was an education consultant specialising in outdoor learning and play and the author of two popular books, Dirty Teaching and Messy Maths. In 2024 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Education from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh in recognition of her pioneering work and significant contribution to education.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements iv

Introduction 1

1 Where's the Maths In That? 9

2 General Advice 25

3 Exploring Numbers 47

4 Number Functions and Fractions 69

5 Money 85

6 Measurement 93

7 Time 119

8 Pattern 129

9 Shape and Symmetry 149

10 Position, Direction and Movement 175

11 Data Handling 185

12 Routines 201

13 The Mathematical Garden 213

Conclusion 229

Bibliography 231

Ideas listing 233

Index 239