Plan a backyard campout from start to finish: gear checklists, meal prep, a stargazing schedule, and a campfire activity plan. Kids use measurement, budgeting, time planning, and estimation to organise a real overnight adventure. Maths that ends with marshmallows.
Ages 6–14 · Project guide · 3 skill levels
Your child plans and runs a real campout in the backyard, and every part of it needs a number. Where the tent goes needs a tape measure and an area calculation. Feeding everyone needs multiplication. Getting the gear needs pricing and trade-offs against a limit. Then they actually sleep outside in the thing they planned.
When maths lives in real money, real measurements, and real decisions, it stops being a worksheet and becomes a tool. A kid who uses it to get something they actually want remembers it for life, and they did it with you. That is the moment "I taught my kid something real" starts to feel possible.
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Designed by a teacher with 15 years of classroom experience, now homeschooling her own kids.
