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Outdoors is an excellent context for exploring maths. Enabling children to collect their own resources, and use movement as part of the learning, helps them to understand and embed the concepts.
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Understanding place value and learning to subitise are crucial counting skills. Use the child’s own age – a number they are likely to recognise in written form – as the launch point for collecting as many matching sets of objects and making as many variations of that number as they can. Group the children by age so they work as a group of that number.
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