Numicon: Bag of Numicon Shapes 1-10

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Have fun with your child by playing the games in this kit together and help them to thrive at the maths they’re learning in school. Designed to work both brilliantly on its own and as a natural progression from the First Steps Kit, the activities and apparatus here will build your child’s understanding of numbers to 100 and their ability to use and talk about them with confidence.

Especially created for use at home, Homework Activities Intervention Resource kit supports children’s mathematical development and learning outside of school.Extra activities and resources have been provided for the First Steps Kit, the Next Steps Kit and for anyone with both kits, which you can go straight to here: A. You can change the settings on your Shopping List at any time. if you want to make a private list public, update the quantity of a specific item, remove items or simply change the name of the list, follow the steps below: Helps children to reason mathematically through the use of concrete objects and spoken language to explain and justify. Numicon is often taught in primary schools as a whole-school programme, meaning it is their main way of teaching maths. Teachers use worksheets, physical shapes, online activities, and more to teach using Numicon. As well as mainstream maths teaching, Numicon is also sometimes used as an intervention programme to help children struggling with maths. This kit provides all you need to support and develop your child’s maths learning, through carefully designed activities and games you will enjoy doing together.

All rights reserved. Consortium is a trading name and registered trade mark of RM Educational Resources Ltd.Welcome to all those who have bought a Numicon at Home First Steps Kit, a Next Steps Kit or want to know more about them. If you're not a big fan of Numicon, you really should be! From EYFS right through to KS1 and beyond, this multi-sensory resource is the perfect tool for developing children's early maths skills, and counting abilities and introducing them to a new way of learning. In the Numicon at Home kits for parents section below there are links to products that you can buy, designed to work with the kits. Can be used flexibly alongside your existing resources, as a complete maths programme or to encourage mastery This activity helps your child see that numbers can be made up of multiple smaller numbers, and will give them a go at adding different numbers together to get a total. 2. Number bonds

My first activity to introduce subtraction involved using a ‘feely bag’ (an big bag that you can’t see through). As with addition, it helps if your child is already familiar with Numicon shapes when you introduce the idea of subtraction because otherwise the activity might seem a bit confusing. You can build on this by taking away larger numbers (for example, holding your finger over two holes) when your child is confident with the process of taking away 1.This is a good activity to gently introduce the idea of adding two numbers together to make a bigger number. Have a go at making number towers like this: My three year old is not ready for this stage yet, so her big sister (age 6) had a go with me. Here are some of the activities we tried out that were most successful. These activities use resources from the 1st Steps with Numicon at Home Kit, but if you don’t own the kit you can still follow along with these free cut-out Numicon shapes. 1. Number towers Ask your child to find the shape that matches the pattern that is left. For example, if the original shape had a value of 6 and you held your finger over a hole, your child would need to find a shape with a value of 5.

Numicon has become part of what I do when teaching maths. It has become an integral part of maths lessons because it works! However did we teach maths before Numicon? - Maths Coordinator, Chandlings Manor School, Oxfordshire Put the smaller shape on top of the bigger shape, and encourage your child to count the difference between the two shapes (i.e. to count the holes in the bigger shape that are not covered). Simply print off the Counting Numicon Shapes worksheets and cut out the Shapes for children to investigate. What are Numicon Shapes?This kit provides all you need to give your child’s early maths learning the right start, with carefully designed activities and games you will enjoy doing together. Encourage your child to explain what is happening using mathematical language – the difference between, smaller than, leaves, equals , and so on . If your child’s school uses Numicon, they may hold workshops to tell you how it is used in the classroom, and you can always ask your child’s teacher if you have any questions.