I love Numicon.
I can't believe that I haven't used it before.
I worked with my lower group today and they TOTALLY understand it and I had them doing sums with 3 numbers in...only simple number bonds to ten, but even so....Wowzers.
They said it was so easy because they could feel the numbers that they were using rather than just trying to hold them in their heads.
I never thought about it like that to be honest.
Come September when I get my new ones, I think I will use it straight away because it was so satisfying for my group today to be able to do something different.
Yes we can move on to make it more complex and eventually to written "sums" if we need to, but for now I'm very proud of my group.
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