What do I buy?

Welcome to Numicon!

• First Steps with Numicon in the Nursery Teaching Guide 
• Firm Foundations - for your 4 year olds (and younger) 
• Firm Foundations Apparatus Pack 
• Breaking Barriers - for children with Special needs 
• Numicon at the Seaside - A Big Book set 
• Large Foam Shapes 
• Pan Balance 

Numicon at home

Parents, if you are wondering what to buy to support your school children at home:

• First Steps with Numicon at Home- the booklet inside will give you so many ideas!
• Numicon shapes - 80 Shapes to use with basic maths right through to algebraic equations!
• Extra 10 shapes -These are used to help children understand place value by building numbers greater than ten and fractions, decimals
• Extra 1 shapes- These are used to help children build numbers 1-9 in the Numicon pattern to learn about 'ones'
• 10's Number line- This is used to help children understand addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
• Number bond overlays- These are used to help children understand and memorise their addition and subtraction facts
• Numicon dice to use in matching activities and games

Breaking Barriers click here

First Steps with Numicon at Home click here

• Breaking Barriers Teaching Pack
• Breaking Barriers Apparatus Pack - Group or 1 to 1 
• Pan Balance 
• Numicon at the Seaside - Big book set 
• Numicon large foam shapes 

When the student has completed BB, then move onto Numicon 3 employing the small steps approach you have learned in BB.

Numicon 1 - begins with a review of Firm Foundations for those children who began Numicon at that level or are new to your school at this level:

Buy all strands in both Number Pattern Calculating (NPC) and Geometry Measurement and Statistics books (GMS) 

• NPC Easy Buy and GMS Easy Buy Packs 

or 

• NPC1 Teaching Pack 
• NPC1 Explorer Progress Packs a, b, and c 
• NPC1 Explore More (Black line masters) 
• GMS Teaching Pack 
• GMS Explorer Progress Book 

plus

• Apparatus Pack A - group or 1 to 1 
• Pan Balance 

Numicon 2 - begins with a review of Numicon 1 (NZC Level 1 NP Stages 0-4) for all children. Numicon 2 covers NZC Early Level 2

Buy all strands in both Number Pattern Calculating (NPC) and Geometry Measurement and Statistics books (GMS) 

• NPC 2 Easy Buy and GMS 2 Easy Buy Packs 

or 

• NPC2 Teaching Pack Explorer 
• NPC2 Progress Packs a, b, and c 
• NPC2 Explore More (Black line masters) 
• GMS2 Teaching Pack 
• GMS2 Explorer Progress Book 

plus

• Apparatus Pack A - group or 1 to 1 
• Pan Balance 

Numicon 3 - which begins with a review of Numicon 2 (Early NZC 2 NP Stage 5) for all children. Numicon 3 covers NZC Late Level 2

Buy all strands in both Number Pattern Calculating (NPC) and Geometry Measurement and Statistics books (GMS) 

• NPC 3 Easy Buy and GMS 3 Easy Buy Packs 

or 

• NPC3 Teaching Pack Explorer 
• NPC3 Progress Packs a, b, and c 
• NPC3 Explore More (Black line masters) 
• GMS3 Teaching Pack 
• Pupil Book 3
• GMS3 Explorer Progress Book 

plus

• Apparatus Pack A - group or 1 to 1 
• Pan Balance 

Numicon 4 - which begins with a review of Numicon 3  (Late NZC 2 NP Stage 5) for all children. Numicon 4 covers NZC Early Level 3

Buy all strands in both Number Pattern Calculating (NPC) and Geometry Measurement and Statistics books (GMS) 

• NPC 4 Easy Buy and GMS 4 Easy Buy Packs 

or 

• NPC4 Teaching Pack Explorer 
• NPC4 Progress Packs a, b, and c 
• NPC4 Explore More (Black line masters) 
• GMS4 Teaching Pack 
• Pupil Book 4
• GMS4 Explorer Progress Book 

plus

• Apparatus Pack B - group or 1 to 1 
• Pan Balance 

Numicon 5 - Begins with a review of Numicon 4. Numicon 5 covers NZC Late Level 3

Buy all strands in both Number Pattern Calculating (NPC) and Geometry Measurement and Statistics books (GMS) 

• NPC 4 or 5 Easy Buy and GMS 4 or 5 Easy Buy Packs 

or 

• NPC4 or NPC5 Teaching Pack Explorer 
• NPC4 or NPC5 Progress Packs a, b, and c 
• NPC4 or NPC5 Explore More (Black line masters) 
• GMS4 or GMS5 Teaching Pack 
• Pupil Book 4 or 5
• GMS4 or GMS5 Explorer Progress Book 

plus

• Apparatus Pack C - group or 1 to 1 
• Pan Balance 

Numicon 6 - Numicon 6 covers NZC Early Level 4. Most schools find they when they are starting Numicon at this level, a lower book is needed to bring students up to this level.

Buy all strands in both Number Pattern Calculating (NPC) and Geometry Measurement and Statistics books (GMS) 

• NPC 4 or 5 Easy Buy and GMS 4 or 5 Easy Buy Packs 

or 

• NPC4 or NPC5 Teaching Pack Explorer 
• NPC4 or NPC5 Progress Packs a, b, and c 
• NPC4 or NPC5 Explore More (Black line masters) 
• GMS4 or GMS5 Teaching Pack 
• Pupil Book 4 or 5
• GMS4 or GMS5 Explorer Progress Book 

plus

• Apparatus Pack C - group or 1 to 1 
• Pan Balance 

Begin with Numicon 5 Getting Started and any further activities you discover you need to use to bring them to Numicon 6 level. You may only need access to this book for the first few weeks.

Eventually this book will no longer be needed for Year 8.  Instead they will be using a programme more geared to Year 9 Maths.  Discuss this with your local high school. We have some recommendations too.

Numicon 6 (similar to Stage 8) 

Buy all strands in both Number Pattern Calculating (NPC) and Geometry Measurement and Statistics books (GMS) 

• NPC 6 Easy Buy and GMS 5 Easy Buy Packs 

or 

• NPC6 Teaching Pack Explorer 
• NPC6 Progress Packs a, b, and c 
• NPC6 Explore More (Black line masters) 
• GMS6 Teaching Pack
• Pupil Book 6 
• GMS6 Explorer Progress Book 

plus

• Apparatus Pack C - group or 1 to 1 
• Pan Balance 

Big Ideas has been written just for you.  Look under the category Acceleration/Intervention, or for a classroom teaching programme:

Numicon 4 or 5, or 6 (Numicon 4 is similar to NF Stage 6, Numicon 5 is similar to NF Stage 7, Numicon 6 is similar to Stage 8) - Numicon 4 and 5 begin with a 'Getting Started' for all students. This shows students how Numicon will support their learning.

Buy all strands in both Number Pattern Calculating (NPC) and Geometry Measurement and Statistics books (GMS) 

• NPC Easy Buy and GMS Easy Buy Packs 

or 

• NPC Teaching Pack Explorer 
• NPC Progress Packs a, b, and c 
• NPC Explore More (Black line masters) 
• GMS Teaching Pack 
• GMS Explorer Progress Book 

plus

• Apparatus Pack C - group or 1 to 1 
• Pan Balance 

Formative Assessment links are provided with every Teaching Resource level in: 

1. Assessment Opportunities listed every week in the Activity groups 

2. Explorer Progress Books (Numicon 1-6) related activities provided for every week 

3. Milestones that sum up the previous 5-6 weeks of learning 

4. Milestones tracking spreadsheets which match the National Standards )- See under the RESOURCES link in the main menu. 

5. Summative Assessments -Numicon 2 and 6 Practice tests, easily adapted for Numicon 1-6. Refer to Numicon 2 and 6