Numicon: Bag of Numicon Shapes 1-10

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A great way to encourage children to practise their addition skills and perfect for visual learners. This Number Bonds of 20 Activity Booklet is a great help when teaching your children all about Number Bonds of 20. Consisting of various number bond worksheets and activities. Learning about numbers for the first time can be challenging for children. Lots of children struggle to understand the concept of numbers to begin with, often because of their abstract quality. Children can struggle to make the connection between, say, the number 8, and the physical quantity that the number represents. If you found counting with Numicons from one to ten helpful, then an abacus may work really well, too. Children learn through Numicon ideas for early years through a multisensory way, by both feeling and seeing.

Children can explore different ways of adding numbers to make ten with this fantastic Making 10 Using Numicon Shapes Activity Sheet. The study found that a large majority of teachers (91%) believed that Numicon 'had a positive impact on children’s mathematical learning.' In particular, it was found that teachers perceived that using Numicon had a particularly positive impact on children's problem-solving and reasoning skills. These are really great outcomes that show the advantages that Numicon can have in your classroom or learning environment. This Numicon Shapes number bonds resource comes in a PowerPoint format, making it ideal for putting up on a whiteboard and working on as a whole class. Alternatively, if your child is learning at home you could set the resource up on a laptop or home PC for an interactive learning experience. You can also use these activities as revision activities, or to bring lessons to their close, as they can be used to help students revise and consolidate what they've learnt in a visual and interactive way. Furthermore, by introducing the competitive element of a game into an activity, you can motivate children to work harder as they will want to get more answers correct!Develops fluency by using a visual, practical base to develop conceptual understanding and fluent recall. Perfect as a whole-class activity focusing on number bonds of 10. Simply show or call out different cards in turn and children write the number on their bingo card if it completes one of the number bonds shown. We have a selection of wonderful Numicon resources to help you teach your children. Here are just a few we think you might love:

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. Based on a concrete-pictorial-abstract approach, Numicon uses structured imagery and apparatus to help children explore and understand mathematical concepts. 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:Later on in their education, children will be able to use Numicon to see more complex mathematical ideas, like how two fours make eight, three twos make six, and so on. This lays the foundation for their understanding of numbers all the way through school. Numicon number lines show children that each number has a different value but can be made up from smaller numbers by adding them to make a new total (number bonds).