Focus on the Numicon Pegs and Baseboard

Seeing pattern and structure in numbers is a key part of mathematical thinking. The Numicon approach plays to children’s strong sense of pattern and the activities that feature the Baseboard and Pegs engage children in a range of playful tasks, which help them explore the number relationships represented by Numicon Patterns and the cardinal value of each number. Children love to cover the board in Numicon Shapes, copy or match the Numicon patterns with the pegs, build towers of number bonds and make repeating patterns to develop their reasoning and prediction skills.

The download below offers a summary of the activities from the Numicon Firm Foundations Kit and Numicon Kit 1 that feature the Pegs and the Baseboard, for more detailed information please refer to the teaching guides found in the kits.

Teaching Focus – November 2010 – focus on the Numicon Pegs and Baseboard

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