Childcare & Early Years
These materials are provided by Cre8ate maths and are aimed at supporting the teaching of mathematics in the context of childcare.
The resources consist of Healthy Childhood, Keeping Baby Warm, Nappy Changing Challenge, Painting the Playground and Playground Design giving students the opportunity to experience mathematical principles in practice and include the ratio of surface area to volume, creating a maze, designing a playground, putting a nappy on to a toy doll and interpret complex charts.
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Keeping Baby Warm
This Cre8ate maths activity investigates the ratio of surface area to volume in adults and babies and explains why we keep babies wrapped up in winter. To calculate surface area and volume students make scale models of a baby and an adult. The models may be simple in nature, such as a single cuboid, or a more complex model involving…
Nappy Changing Challenge
The Nappy Changing Challenge from Cre8ate maths provides real data about students for analysis. They undertake a timed, practical, exercise of folding a towelling nappy and putting it onto a toy baby doll. Throughout the task students complete a form for the Nappy challenge and record their completed data in an excel file. The…
Painting the Playground
This activity from Cre8ate maths lends itself to the development of personal thinking and learning skills, based on activities for a playground. Making a maze involves students in quite complex 2-D visualisation, working with a prepared spreadsheet, in excel, which encourages students to refine and redraft their work. Jumping…
Playground Design
This activity from Cre8ate maths involves students in designing a playground. They will have to decide upon a suitable outdoor space and consider key features relevant to their design. Scaled templates can be used to trial several layouts giving consideration to safety needs, sight lines for supervisors, buffer zones between different…
4/5- Publication year: 2010 to date
- Activity sheet
Healthy Childhood
In this resource from Cre8ate maths students have the opportunity to work with complex charts, used by professionals who monitor the physical development of children. The activities, for students to undertake, include tasks such as plotting data onto charts and reading information from charts, then matching the data with written…
- 4/5
- Publication year: 2010 to date
- Activity sheet
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