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What is a Numicon shape pattern?
Numicon are a system of flat plastic shapes with holes in them. Each shape represents a number from one to 10 and each number has its own colour. Numicon can be used across EYFS, KS1, KS2, and to help bridge the gap to KS3.
What is Numicons?
Numicon is an approach to teaching maths that helps your child to see connections between numbers. From Oxford University Press, it supports your child as they learn early maths skills in nursery and primary school. It is a multi-sensory way of learning, which means your child learns by seeing and feeling.
How do you use a Numicon in kindergarten?
Another fantastic way for Numicon activities for preschool children to be utilized is Swap Shape or Swap Numeral. Have the shapes in order with matching numerals. Get your child to look away as you swap over two of the shapes or numerals. Then allow them the opportunity to place them back in their correct places.
Are Numicons weighted?
Each Numicon piece is weighted so that a ten piece will weigh the same as two five pieces or a seven piece and three piece. This activity is a great way of exploring number bonds.
What age is Numicon for?
The Numicon maths system is predominantly tailored for teaching children aged 4-7. However, it’s often used for older children with SEN, or older pupils who are struggling with maths anxiety.
How do preschoolers use Numicon?
How do you teach Cuisenaire rods?
How to Introduce Cuisenaire Rods through Inquiry
- Give kids time to explore with rods and centimeter graph paper to find proportional relationships between rods. After lots of exploration, make a list together.
- You may want to set up a shorthand system for labeling rods. Hand2Mind suggests:
What are benefits to Cuisenaire Rods?
The Cuisenaire Rods are an especially valuable tool for any student with math difficulties because they provide a visual, tactile, and concrete approach to abstract math. Color and size characteristics are systematically associated with numbers.
Why are they called Cuisenaire Rods?
The educationalists Maria Montessori and Friedrich Fröbel had used rods to represent numbers, but it was Georges Cuisenaire who introduced the rods that were to be used across the world from the 1950s onwards.