Closing the Gap with Numicon

Closing the Gap with Numicon Group Kit ISBN: 9780198486992

Price: £192.90+VAT

Closing the Gap with Numicon One-to-One Kit ISBN: 9780198487005

Price: £128.30+VAT

This kit has been designed specifically for pupils of any age who are experiencing significantly greater difficulty learning mathematics than the majority of pupils of their age. The aim of the Kit is to enable all pupils to have a positive experience of learning mathematics and to develop the sound foundation of basic number understanding that is essential if they are to achieve their individual potential.

This Kit is suitable for use as a Learning Intervention Programme and also for pupils who have special needs. It is well documented that pupils with SENs learn most effectively through multi-sensory teaching; Numicon’s emphasis on doing and seeing, alongside speaking and listening, capitalises on pupils’ visual and kinaesthetic strengths throughout the teaching activities.

If you are interested in using Numicon specifically for Intervetion please see the details on our intervention programme for TAs and/or Teachers involved in Maths Intervention. Numicon is unique in this form of intervention training in supporting trainee’s subject knowledge, pedagogy and classroom practice through a multi-sensory approach to number representation and we hope that you will be interested in and then benefit from CtGNIP. This has been developed to support Every Child Counts but is applicable to any school interested in maths intervention for 6 - 11 year olds.

Ideas covered in Closing the Gap Kit include: acquisition of early number skills, addressing the acquisition of numerosity (awareness of the number of objects in a set), counting, the ability to recognize and exploit pattern, and early computation.

Please see this link for an excerpt from the Closing the Gap Teaching Materials.

Watch a short getting started video about 'what is in the box?' for Closing the Gap.

N.B. The Closing the Gap Teaching Materials can be ordered separately for use in conjunction with Kits 1 and 2.

About the Teaching Materials File and Kit Contents

Class Kit or One to One Kit?
The One to One version contains enough materials to teach the activities to a maximum of two pupils and is therefore perfect for small groups. The Group Kit contains enough resource for large group of typically up to six. Depending on specific needs additional items may be required. Download this spreadsheet to see the additional Numicon maths resources that we recommend for each setting.

Teaching Guide
A vital part of the Kit, supports teachers’ subject knowledge of key mathematical ideas and provides suggestions for teaching approaches, organization and the learning environment. This particular Kit offers practical solutions to pupils’ difficulties to support teachers in their assessment, planning and teaching.

Programme of Activities
Easy to follow and clearly illustrated small step teaching programme.

Assessment Tools
A variety of tools to track pupils’ progress and assess at which point in the teaching programme they need to start.

Photocopy Masters
Resources used in many of the activities.

The Closing the Gap teaching materials offer practical solutions to pupils’ difficulties to support teachers in their assessment, planning and teaching. The programme of small-step teaching follows the typical acquisition of early number skills, addressing the acquisition of numerosity (awareness of the number of objects in a set), counting, the ability to recognize and exploit pattern, and early computation.

PLEASE NOTE
This Kit is available with the Numicon Maths Shapes in Grey and the Numicon Pegs in black and white for those children who have ASD and may find the bright colours a distraction. Please contact us for more details.