Worldschool Maths

Worldschool Maths: Sailing Edition

Project-Based KS2 Maths for Families Learning While Sailing

Life at sea is full of real maths - planning routes, managing time, measuring distance, and making sensible decisions.

Worldschool Maths: Sailing Edition is a calm, project-based maths book for UK Key Stage 2 children (ages 7-11), designed for families learning while sailing, travelling, or learning outside traditional classrooms.

Instead of worksheets or rote methods, children use maths to solve real-life problems based on everyday sailing situations. Through practical projects, they develop understanding, reasoning, and confidence with numbers in meaningful contexts.

Across ten flexible projects, children explore:

• Number, fractions, and division

• Measurement, including distance, time, capacity, and speed

• Data handling and interpretation

• Problem solving and reasoning

• Applying maths to real decisions

The projects are designed for mixed ages and abilities, allowing siblings to work together and revisit activities with new numbers as confidence grows. Clear guidance is included throughout, with opportunities for discussion, estimation, and explanation.

This book focuses on understanding rather than speed or memorisation, making it suitable for children who feel anxious about maths or who learn differently, including those with special educational needs.

No specialist sailing knowledge is required, and no internet access is needed. Sailing is simply used as a real-life context to help maths make sense.

Whether used on its own or alongside Worldschool English: Sailing Edition, this book offers a flexible, confidence-building approach to maths that fits real life.