Numicon: Numicon Pupil Book 5 (Numicon Teaching Resources)

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This means that they can then investigate different shapes with the same area by using several Numicon pieces to make them. When do children use Numicon in school? Numicon can be used across EYFS, KS1, KS2, and to help bridge the gap to KS3. Numicon’s approach to teaching maths helps children to see connections between numbers, supporting children as they learn early maths skills in nursery, primary school, and beyond. It's a multi-sensory way of learning, which means children learn by seeing and feeling. This is great for kinaesthetic learners – children who learn by doing. To maximise the benefits of Numicon as a teaching tool, it’s important to understand how to utilise it effectively in the classroom and prepare worksheets in advance to incorporate it into your lesson plans. 1. Numicon for number recognition All of our resources have been made by an experienced team of teachers, so no matter how much you know about a topic, you can trust that our resources will cover it in an accessible and informative way.

Early Calculating –Numicon shapes are great for practising simple addition and subtraction sums. Using the shapes that represent each number in the sum you can add and take away as and when needed and allow children to count at their own pace. Real-Life Applications – Incorporate Numicon into baking, measuring and budgeting. This helps demonstrate to children the practicality of real life. Early calculating: using the pieces to perform simple calculations e.g. putting a two and a three together and seeing that this is the same shape as (therefore equal to) the five. Using Numicon can also be a great way to create projects. Students can use Numicon to design projects, including posters, calendars, and graphs. This is a great way to connect math to real-world applications. The possibilities are endless when you use Numicon in your classroom.

Using Numicon boards, children can create different shapes and patterns. As they become more familiar with the pieces, they'll start to call them by their number name. Through Numicon, children learn about physical shapes, and patterns and help form a foundation for children. Using the CPA approach (concrete, pictorial, abstract), Numicon turns abstract concepts into tangible and visual ones. This helps children form connections between numbers, shapes and values. Children have two options for this question. Either they can go with the image on the left and just count each square to find the perimeter of 12 squares. Alternatively, they can measure each side separately and use addition (1+4+2+3+1+1) to also get the answer of 12 squares. Numicon practice questions

The Teaching Resource Handbook provides step-by-step activities for developing children's understanding of pattern, algebra, number and calculating. Numicon Firm Foundations and the Mathematics and Numeracy Foundation Stage of the Northern Ireland Curriculum (PDF)

Why use these Numicon Shapes and Numerals Matching Cards?

These Numicon Shapes and Numerals Matching Cards are a great way to teach younger children about numbers. They're ideal for helping them develop number recognition skills and are a fun way to practice counting up to 20. Initially when introducing fractions, pupils can use the Numicon shapes to represent the denominator of the fraction and then place pegs into the holes to show the numerator, therefore ‘filling in’ the fraction that is given. One Numicon activity that can be done to help support number recognition among pupils is to provide them with a range of Numicon pieces along with number flashcards. Numicon is a mathematics teaching approach designed to help children understand maths. It is based on the popular and highly effective concrete-pictorial-abstract approach (CPA). This particular system of learning uses physical and visual aids to develop a deep and sustainable understanding of abstract topics, such as maths.