What people have told us about using NUMICON

Narelle Edmonds from Lismore,  Australia

We have kicked off our year with 7 students using the Closing the Gap Kit in individual sessions (1 more than last year). The teacher aides, myself and the children absolutely love the program. Parents are commenting on how their children have changed their view of Maths. We are thrilled with the progress of a 10 year old girl with William's Syndrome who couldn't count past 10 when we started her on Numicon and now she can tell us numbers that are more/less than a digit up to 20. She can add and subtract to 10 in her head and to 20 with the shapes. She tells us she sees the shape in her head and puts them together etc. Maths finally makes sense to her.

Nicola

Our staff are most impressed with the Numicon materials and we have decided to look at buying the additional materials to support the items purchased from you at the end of last year. (This school has allocated a Bag of shapes to every child in the school in their Stationery List.)

Gemma from Whangarei, NZ

One of our students has autism and Numicon is one of the highlights of his day. He is so excited to open the box everyday.

Dianne

My student has struggled with number for 5 years.  We have tried every programme without much consistent success.  But after 5 weeks with Numicon- he learned more than in the 5 years.  What a relief!

Mikella

I teach in many schools assisting students with special needs.  Every school is impressed with the progress of their students and have begun to extend its use to other students in the school.

Alida

The kids loves their Numicon shapes. They have learned the 1 times and 2 times tables with it today on the Number Chart. It helped my oldest, dyslexic boy to see the shape and number chart, to understand timetables. It's just the naming of the numbers that he struggles with, I must probably just drill it each day, by letting him count each day, and writing them. They love counting on the Number Chart to 50 now, seeing the number and number name.Thanks. (Home educator)

Mary

I have been teaching a small group of students requiring remedial help in years 3  and 4.  They have made outstanding progress in the 4 weeks and have taken their learning back into the classroom.  Weeks later, teachers have commented on seeing a renewed interest and success that has stayed with the the students.

Judy

Our students love it and have enjoyed counting activities with kiwifruit! I cut out egg cartons to match the patterns and with tthe students' help painted the insides the same as the Numicon patterns.  They are fun to use when making fruit salad for morning tea!

Katherine

I have used NUMICON for years now with my classroom.  I am always impressed with the quality of the programme and the equipment.  But the success is what is most amazing.  I enjoy using it for all children- gifted through to special needs.  I have it everywhere in my classroom.

Sheryl

I use this programme in my early childhood centre.  It's everywhere! We all have so much fun with it. We have it on the play dough table, natural resource table, at Mat Time activities, for daily routines (4 pieces of fruit), outside in the sandpit, throwing bean bags into container labelled, Play corner with 'shopping', construction corner for building towers, we have made some board games with Numicon, water play, the songs, cooking, music counting, patterns. I would be lost without it if I had to move to another centre. I encourage the children to tell me what they are learning and noticing. They are making some significant connections in maths that will take them on to school with confidence.

Clover Hill

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