• Full school digital access to the teaching programme written completely for Aotearoa/NZ aligned to NZC

• Hands-on manipulatives - so many!

• Student Text books for Years 4 - 8

• Supporting PLD to get you started

Being clever at maths includes understanding all the strands, not just number.

Being able to work with patterns, relationships and confidently converse in mathematical language developed in the explicit teaching, with rich tasks and a positive learning environment engages all children.

Making connections in maths and solving problems by applying rules and principles is necessary for all children to demonstrate mastery of a concept and connecting maths ideas.

For this reason, Numicon supports children to broaden their understanding, go deeper and think mathematically from Year 0.

The Curriculum clearly asks for children to investigate, explain and justify in every strand in Maths.

The Numicon Approach draws all children to work together to explore the relationships and patterns in maths. This is a conversational approach to teaching that is unique to Numicon. It allows for the class to reflect on the learning, bringing the most thought-provoking questions and answers. It provides access to all learners together - inclusive!

Maths is a language of patterns and relationships. Numicon makes this a key focus of the teaching and the learning.  Words and terms are provided for the teacher along with opportunities through each week to incorporate the use of the words and terms in the conversations and activities.

Generalising in maths is the Going Deeper. Just answering the question is not beneficial to the long term understanding for the children.  We want them to really know the how maths happens not just the what. Numicon is full of rich tasks!

Students record the learning in their exercise books. There are no worksheets with Numicon. Extra games, practice and problem-solving activities are available on Twinkl.

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• Further paid PLD is recommended to ensure a deep embedding of maths and the programme in your school.

• A spiral sequence teaching sequence throughout the year which enables children to revisit the same concepts in the different strands of maths while also supporting long-term memory strength and retrieval
• Explicit teaching with extra support for children who are struggling and extension activities for the more able children
• Rich tasks throughout enabling the connections in maths and in everyday life
• A structured approach built on mastery
• Formative assessment is built in. The teacher is cued for what to, 'look and listen for' in the lessons. Weekly assessment goals accumulate towards Milestones that are tracked throughout the year.
• Reduces teacher workload. Lesson plans are done for you. You always know what to teach, when to teach it, and how to teach it.  See Samples  "Jo: The Numicon teaching resources are fantastic!  The Implementation Guide, along with the lessons, ensures teachers have the appropriate knowledge and tools to be able to teach lessons confidently and effectively.  The Long Term Plan/Teaching Progressions gives teachers a clear progression and coverage of what to teach over the school year that fulfil the NZ Curriculum.  Each lesson is structured in a systematic way and use real life experiences to which children respond well.  It even gives you the questions to ask the students! Each activity clearly outlines what equipment is needed.  These manipulatives give students the confidence to be able to make connections and develop in that particular skill.  I highly recommend using the Numicon Teaching programme in the classroom.  Your students will love it!"

• Fulfils the NZ Curriculum for the Whole school - providing consistency for all children. Works for multi-year classes (See a sample plan for a mixed year 1/2 class). See the Mapping Chart for Numicon and the Curriculum
  
  
• It works. Every school that has fully implemented Numicon has seen a significant improvement in achievement across all year levels.  See case studies from Wigram School and St Patrick's School.

• Evidence-based with sound pedagogy delivering Structured Maths.

• All children are engaged and enjoy maths, often for the first time.
  
  
• Teachers enjoy teaching maths, often for the first time. 

• Inclusive - all children learn together regardless of where they're at.

• Supportive of more able students - download

• Intervention and acceleration programmes - purchased through Edushop

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Numicon totally supports Year 8 learners. The new curriculum has extended the learning expectations for this level, so more material has been written. 

Students enjoy the learning and challenges, especially with problem-solving in Numicon Feedback from our schools using Numicon at this level indicates that the students go into the top classes at high school. 

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"What teaching support is available online?"

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Clear planning and supporting documents online and ebooks (NZ version - August 2025)

Overview of the week's teaching/learning with quicklinks to the lessons

Starter image for conversation to introduce the learning 

TAB - Introduction to the learning to show and discuss with the students

TAB - Quicklinks to the resources for the week

TAB- Lesson steps... with illustrations than can be enlarged for teaching/sharing

Student Book image of opening question for conversation and problem-solving together or in pairs

Explore More activities for practice and Home Learning (optional)

Whole class reflections at the end of the lesson period instead of opening warm-ups as per NZC

Digital representations for teaching, creating slides/activities/ Student Accessible

Assessment cards for conversation/student reflection/formative & summative assessment

Explorer Progress pages for formative or summative assessment - recall and generalising

Assessment Tracking file to record progress in learning

Join one of our free Zooms. Watch the recorded webinars on the Edushop website

• Follow the Home NZ Index - the links are easy to find.
• The year’s sequence - Teaching Progressions have all the hyperlinks to the planning and the teaching resources and links with NZC. Easy!
• Mixed-Year Level planning shows how to integrate the teaching for two year levels in one class - composite classes
• Teacher support videos at Numicon Online
• Join our facebook group - Numicon Users NZ where you can ask questions and receive answers right away from our consultants

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How does Numicon support children of different abilities while exposing them to the demand of working 'at' their year level?

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• At the beginning of the programme for each year level, there is a 'Getting Started' week of activities to familiarise the teachers and students with the manipulatives, the new lesson experience, and assessment opportunities for the teachers.
• Each week, in the 'Educational Context', there is information on how the learning for the week is built on earlier work. This provides a background that teachers may want to incorporate at the beginning of the teaching week then extend into the week they are teaching. 
• Focus Activities 1 and 2 of each week of learning is always introductory in design providing access to all learners - the 'low threshold'.
• Throughout the week of teaching the students reach the year's expectations and beyond.  Rich tasks, open-ended problems to solve, Going Deeper - the 'high ceiling'.
• Using the Mixed Level plans the teacher can draw on the previous year's teaching to incorporate into this year.
• See Curriculum links below

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"How does Numicon provide 'follow-up' for personal extension?" "Assessment?"

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Numicon has a comprehensive 'follow-up' as Independent or paired activities where the children use the equipment to solve problems, practice their learning and record their discoveries in their quad exercise book. The Student Books - Years 4 -8 provide Practice questions to discuss and do with a partner followed by Going Deeper problem solving questions to satisfy the more able students.

The Numicon lesson plan follows the new curriculum:

1. Getting Started - Teach using the Focus Activities

2. Working - Practice using the + Activities and the Student Books for going Deeper and Extension for Phases 2 and 3

3. Connecting and Reflecting - Whole class practice and discussion

Numicon absolutely follows an explicit teaching approach – it began all this movement internationally! Read all the samples at this link.

The spiral nature of the teaching progressions allows many opportunities for students to reinforce their learning but also make the connections with all the strands in Maths. You will see this in the samples. You can read the Scope and sequence for each year here

Assessment with Numicon is mainly through a formative approach:

• Where teachers are looking and listening for students to demonstrate their understanding and also promptly correct any misconceptions or wrong thinking. They don’t have to wait for a test later in the term to discover this when it’s often too late.

• Assessment cards are provided for the students to self-assess, or the teacher can use these for summative assessment

• Explorer Progress Books provide the opportunity for the students to show their learning at the end of the week and also apply their learning in a new context.

• The students’ learning is recorded in a Student Tracker – an xl spreadsheet.

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"Does Numicon have clear curriculum links in the planning to incorporate into the lessons ? Are there clear files showing this as well?"

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The Mapping Tool shows all the links. You can see it here.

Our planning documents begin with the Curriculum, then show the Numicon teaching and assessment links.  See the example of Numicon 2- Year 3 below.  

1. The purple column is NZC, 
2. Sequence of teaching through the year- Calculations (operations), 
3. Teaching sequence through the week, 
4. Space for own comments, 
5. Adaptions for students and 
6. Milestone assessment link.

A complete rewrite of the online platform will be delivered progressively through July and August. This will completely cover the NZC and be written in a NZ context.

The ebooks, 'tabs' and weekly overviews will show the direct links to the curriculum. Coming July/August

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"Are there any 'extras' available for purchase? "

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Optional extras are:

• Pan balances - 1 per group. Keep a class set or two in your resource room for teachers to 'book'. They are used by all year groups but not every week.
• Large foam shapes - children of all ages love these!
• Place Value resources
• Investigations with Numicon - 10 deep thinking investigations for students in Phases 2 and 3
• Number lines to walk along, measure...
• Fun counting and patterning materials
• Clocks, Time
• Geometry
• Maths Games
• Numicon Essentials - a subscription to online resources - 100 lessons with teaching slides and notes of the Numicon programme
• MyMaths - an online extension and practice subscription with weekly links to the teaching programme
• Numicon Breaking Barriers for Tier 3 students, Numicon Intervention Programme for Tier 2 students Years 1 - 5 and Big Ideas for Years 6 - 9.
• Parents' support - First Steps with Numicon at Home - parent packs for early childhood - Year 1, and Next Steps with Numicon At Home for children in Years 2 and 3, other maths activities, Maths Bags
• Home Learning - Maths Bags
• You can see the prices on our website. These are quality products that last for a very long time.

You can see a detailed view of all the resources you will receive in the Government offer here. This is a wonderful gift!

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What happens at the end of the 2 years? Will we have to pay for the online resources?

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Read about this on the Tahurangi website - Q & A

'The resources will be available until our children are at the new Curriculum level.'

Purchasing Numicon Online NZ is another option, so too is Numicon Essentials