Messy maths : a playful, outdoor approach for early years

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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. 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. Packed full of activities that reimagine the outdoor space through a 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