Structured images In pairs or threes: • Put out the numicon pieces randomly • What do you notice? • The imagery motivates numerals, it gives a picture of number ideas
Firm foundations for all learners • Ordering Numicon Shapes, giving them number names and attaching numerals • Grouping objects into Numicon patterns without counting • Combining Numicon in addition • Using Numicon Shapes to show subtraction • Confidently using the language of addition and subtraction
• Reciting numbers • Counting songs and rhymes • Counting one-to-one: objects, pictures, children…How many children can play etc.
Getting to know the shapes • Using the feely bag to find the matching shape. • Make the numicon staircase
• Put two shapes from the extra set in the feely bag. • Point to a shape • Can your child find the matching shape in the feely bag?
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Language Have a 10 shape and a 1 shape. Ask the child to pick the smaller shape and then the bigger shape. Put the shapes in the feely bag. Ask the child to find the bigger and then the smaller shape. Repeat for different pairs More ideas: 3b, 4a
Addition • Have ready shapes, numeral cards and feely bag containing two each of shapes 1-5. • Take out two shapes. • Put the shapes together, say what shape has been made, find the equivalent shape to check. • More ideas 11a, 11b
Counting experience forms an essential part of children’s developing understanding of numbers, but it is by no means the best foundation for their calculating
What is calculating? • Calculating is used to answer ‘how many?’ questions without counting • Adding is what we do instead of counting. Multiplying is what we do instead of adding • Beware! Complex ideas can appear deceptively simple
Numicon in Key Stage 2 • All work in KS2 extends ideas already met in KS1 • Look at multiplication and division in Kit 2 for work on factors, primes, square numbers • Place value – work with higher numbers • Addition and subtraction working with higher numbers and towards written calculation
Quality first learning Progressive Inclusive Children can: • understand number relationships • do calculating without counting • learn mathematical language in • context • make connections to use and • apply their understanding
A proven approach that gets results...
47% increase in students achieving Level 3 at KS1 after using Numicon
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