Can be used flexibly alongside your existing resources, as a complete maths programme or to encourage mastery Based on a concrete-pictorial-abstract approach, Numicon uses structured imagery and apparatus to help children explore and understand mathematical concepts. 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:

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. 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:

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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. Helps children to reason mathematically through the use of concrete objects and spoken language to explain and justify.

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. 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: 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 use these printable Counting Numicon Shapes worksheets to familiarise and build knowledge of different patterns and how numbers fit together.Designed specifically to help parents support their children’s maths progression in Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1.

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, OxfordshireThanks for getting in touch and letting us know how much you liked this resource. You might also want to take a look at this: The other way to explore subtraction with Numicon is by taking away part of a shape. For example, you could: 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.