Exploring Numicon for Teaching Maths

Teaching and learning with Numicon requires children to be active - to actively learn and to do the mathematics for themselves.  Doing mathematics (i.e. thinking and communicating mathematically) with Numicon, explicitly involves illustrating in every activity through exploring relationships.

Specific Learning Objectives

• Having participated in this presentation teachers will:
• Acquire a comprehensive working knowledge of how the unique materials that comprise Numicon can be used to explore and develop a broad range of key mathematical concepts with their pupils;
• Revise, refresh and utilise the key pedagogical approaches to the teaching of mathematics;
• Better devise, resource and deliver mathematics lessons that are hands-on and full of potential & possibility for discussion and conversation.

Presentation Outline/Overview

1. Matching Shapes,
2. Ordering Shapes,
3. Counting to 5,
4. Understanding One More,
5. Odd & Even, Sorting,
6. Investigate Ordering & Make Generalisations,
7. Basic Adding & Subtracting,
8. Using Numicon Pegs,
9. Number Bonds to 10,
10. Number Square Patterns.