Outdoor Learning Leadership Conference 2026

Explore how outdoor learning environments, such as schoolyards, parks, forests, and sidewalks, are powerful spaces for teaching mathematics that align with provincial curricular learning outcomes. This session highlights how key concepts and skills in number sense, multiplication, division, fractions, and geometry can be enriched through hands-on, real-world activities that help connect learners to their local place. Try out easy-to-implement outdoor math instructional routines and activities and experience firsthand how the outdoors naturally stimulates mathematical thinking, increases student engagement, and deepens conceptual understanding. Leave with a deeper understanding of not only how the outdoors supports and enhances math instruction but also practical ideas to share with the educators in your school or district to encourage them to take their math instruction outside.