School Grounds Maths Trail (KS2)

This is a maths trail that I devised for my pupils and involves them exploring the school grounds. It consists of two A4 pages of questions that can be really easily adjusted to suit your school grounds and the age/ability of your pupils. A great way for pupils to apply their mathematical skills and knowledge in context. The questions touch on many areas of maths including: percentages, measures (length), area, difference, calculation, time, shape, symmetry, reasoning and perimeter. I used this as a general baseline assessment at the start of the year and got lots of data to work with - not only from marking their work, but also from observing how confident they were with maths and listening to the things they were saying whilst going around the grounds. The resource is provided in WORD format as well as PDF so that you can adjust to suit your school grounds or the ability of your pupils if necessary.

Ideas for use:

• Moving Up Day: get to know the personalities and mathematical abilities of your new class before September.
• End of year fun outdoor activity - no prep but can stretch out for a whole afternoon!
• Small guided group activity or assessment opportunity.
• Make it a team building exercise by using mixed ability groups and introducing a prize for the first team back with the answers!
• Baseline assessment at the start of a new school year.
• Activity to be left with a supply teacher or a group of pupils who are staying behind from a school trip/residential.