For Primary and Post Primary Teachers and SNAs

Fun Activities with Numicon

The aim of Numicon is to make numbers real for children through them being able to see and touch them. Numicon Shapes provide a concrete object to represent each number and also has a multi-sensory approach that's known to help learning.

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

This presentation will provide the necessary skills and resources to teach pupils the following:

• Learn to count with Numicon
• Explore Numicon Dice
• Make Patterns with Numicon Shapes
• Explore Numicon Pegs
• Number Games with Effective Questioning
• Use games like Snakes & Ladders to teach number recognition
• Find, Match & Colour with Numicon
• Shape Matching
• Feely Bag Activities

All printable resources will be made available following the webinar.

Facilitator Bio

Edmond Scannell is an Administrative Principal with over 25 years of teaching both Mainstream and Special Needs.  He is a Certified eTutor and a FRIENDS Youth Resilience accredited facilitator with NEPS.