About
Hello and welcome to Maths Outside the Box! I'm Hannah, and this platform was created to support and empower other teachers who love teaching Maths creatively. With the rise of Maths schemes in recent years, Maths has become increasingly more formulaic and concerned with curriculum coverage.
Maths Outside The Box aims to provide creative and cross-curricular resources and ideas that support and enrich the Maths workbooks - with lessons that encourage students to see real-world purpose to Maths.
The potential for real-life and cross curricular learning opportunities in Maths are ripe with possibility... and we all know that practical, engaging application of any skill is a more powerful tool in the classroom.
A big passion of mine is teaching Maths through stories. With an increasing push in curriculum reviews for Maths to encompass 'real life problems', stories give us whole worlds that enable us to link both modern life and historical periods to Maths. Content such as recipes, sport league tables, currency and measurement conversions all give us fruitful material to work in a cross-curricular approach.
Chances are that when we teach the ancient Greeks in History we study one of the myths in an English unit, throw a democracy lesson in to our PSHE planning and maybe even host a one-off PE lesson to hold a mini Olympics with our class. But what do we do in Maths? Could we use our students' position and direction vocabulary to help Theseus escape the labyrinth? Could we teach ratio and proportion using Pythagoras' exploration into building instruments? Could we explore the types of houses the ancient Greeks lived in by using perimeter and area?
With so many possibilities for real-world, inspiring and off-the-page Maths, I hope you find these resources helpful. CPD training is also now available to be delivered online or in person to help Maths Leads and senior leaders implement a more holistic and creative approach to Maths.