Natural Number Wonders
Audience: KS2 Numeracy
Location: Cuffley, Hudnall Park
Description of Activity
- Number or activity trail
- Establishing a scale for a map and estimation and calculation of
distance walked
- Tree measurements of height or canopy or age through girth
- Leaf area investigation
- Grass growth patterns
- Temperature trail of microclimates
- Grids and co-ordinates treasure hunt
- Finding natural spirals and making spirals based on number sequences
- Shape and symmetry challenges
- Transect mapping
- Plant or animal data collection, interpretation and presentation
- Quadrat surveys
Learning Outcomes
Children will:
- Use appropriate methods to solve practical outdoor problems
- Develop their estimation and prediction skills in calculations of
measures
- Practice relating maps to distances and areas
- Make connections between number patterns and natural forms
- Use appropriate mathematical equipment effectively
- Work collaboratively
- Draw inferences from their data collection
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