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An introduction to Numicon
at Itchingfield
Aims of the session
• Understand the reasons for using Numicon
• Understand how it can help support your
child’s knowledge of numbers
• Have a go at using it yourself!
• Gain an understanding into how it is used in
school
• Opportunity to ask any questions
Links to the new curriculum 2014
• Develops fluency by using a visual, practical base
to develop conceptual understanding and fluent
recall.
• Helps children to reason mathematically through
the use of concrete objects
and spoken language to explain and justify.
• Develops children into confident problemsolvers.
Video clip
• Making numbers real
• https://global.oup.com/education/content/pri
mary/series/numicon/?region=uk#
Task 1 - counting
• Order the Numicon pieces
(Try to put them into a staircase shape)
Task 2 – Odd/Even
• Which ones are odd?
• What does an even add to an even make?
• What about odd + odd?
• Odd + Even?
Task 3 – Number bonds
• Now create your numbers bonds to 10
Task 4 – times tables
Using the Numicon:
• Count in 3s, 6s – what do you notice?
• Investigate whether 12 is in the 3 times tables
• How else can you make 12 using the same
number?
• Have you found all the possibilities?
Task 5 - Fractions
Using the Numicon:
• How can you show ½?
• What about 2/4?
• What about 3/6?
Task 6 – Investigations
The farmer has a field and a barn. Some animals can come into the
barn in cold weather.
Each animal takes up
space in the barn. Goat =
2, Donkey = 4, Cow = 6.
There are 24 spaces in the barn.
• The farmer has decided to put 2 types of animal in the barn at the
same time. E.g. goats and donkeys or cows and goats.
• All spaces must be filled
Task 7 - Algebra?!
• 4+2=3+?
• 3x3=?x1
• 1+5=2X?
How it used in Chestnut class