Numicon Resources

Maths Outdoors 1 What to do Extensions and questions

A Numicon calculating • Take your container and gather
collections of objects. You might collect
• How many objects altogether?
• If you wanted to make each set up to a
activity leaves, acorns, seeds, shells, or twigs, tens number, how many more would
for example. you need to add to it?
What you will need • When you get back inside, sort out your • How could you make a set of sticks
• A container to carry outdoors objects into sets. Calculate how many bigger without collecting more? (E.g. by
• Numicon Shapes for when you are back of each you have by arranging them snapping them in half.)
inside into Numicon Shape patterns. Use the
Numicon Shapes to check your totals.
• Which objects did you gather most of?

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