Inspire and Farsons foundations recently teamed up to facilitate the understanding of mathematical concepts for children who have difficulties in the area.

The Farsons Foundation will be funding the training for another Inspire staff member to become a certified Numicon Trainer by Oxford University Press. Numicon is a new approach to teach children numeracy using a more visual and multisensory approach.

Accredited trainers help to train and support staff using Numicon to teach children in a whole class approach or using one to one intervention. Inspire already has one accredited trainer but as the demand grows so does the need for more staff members to become accredited and trained in this approach.

Numicon trainer at Inspire Rosette Gatt said all children benefited from the Numicon approach but those who found numbers and the number system abstract would benefit even more because of visual and structured imagery.

Activities have been developed from direct experiences with children making the teaching approach more appealing to the children’s strengths and less reliable on their auditory capacities. This is done through multisensory activities using patterned shapes, rods, number lines, and a broad range of everyday experiences and contexts. Feeling, seeing, thinking, speaking, reading, and writing all come together.

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