Making Maths Fun with Numicon!
Hands up if you have fond memories of maths class! If mathematics was not one of your favourite subjects, it may help to know that teaching methods have evolved.
At Bright Kids Nursery, a 21st-century learning nursery and leading daycare in Abu Dhabi, we believe that early years education should be child-centred and child-led. We create opportunities for playful learning in vibrant, stimulating learning environments, and provide high-quality education and safe care for children aged 0-4 years. At Bright Kids Nursery, we use Numicon to make maths fun!
A multi-sensory approach with step-by-step activities, Numicon encourages learning through play, developing children’s understanding of maths by making numbers real and tangible. While emphasising three key aspects of doing mathematics – communicating mathematically, exploring relationships and solving problems in everyday life – Numicon engages children’s strengths with structured apparatus that provides imagery, connections and enjoyment. Children learn to reason, think logically and systematically and apply their understanding in many ways, and teachers are able to observe the children’s thinking processes.
Bright Kids Nursery’s broad, balanced and highly inspiring curriculum is guided by the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) approach in a Montessori setting and supported by neuroscience-based learning strategies. Bright Kids Nursery harnesses the latest in innovative technology through its STREAM experimental learning curriculum. The Nursery’s age-appropriate Coding @ 2 programme introduces logic and problem-solving at a very young age, and the outdoor environment is designed to build coding logic in the children while they play real games – they learn to code while they skip and sing. At Bright Kids Nursery, the staff and educators are highly-qualified, passionate, friendly and caring, and they ensure that each child receives support and attention. At the leading EYFS nursery in Abu Dhabi, we view parents as partners in their child’s learning. Based on the belief that repeated experiences help to strengthen the connections in the brain, resulting in optimal development, we recommend communicating with young children through meaningful conversations, asking open-ended questions and introducing them to the colourful world of books, songs, rhymes and poetry to help the development of high-level language and communication skills.
Already emerging as a champion of technology and innovative teaching methods, Bright Kids Nursery – a Superbrand – is expanding fast. There are five branches across Abu Dhabi in Al Muroor, Bain Al Jesrain, Al Najda, Khalifa City A, and Al Manaseer, a branch in Al Ain and one branch in Sharjah. More branches across the UAE will be opening soon. KBBO Education, a subsidiary of KBBO Group, developed the Bright Kids Nursery brand around the three core pillars of innovation, dreams and connections to the future. Children are exposed to a curriculum that promotes the development of innovation, creativity, problem-solving and thinking skills that are transferable and empowering.
KBBO Group is a leading, diversified holding company headquartered in the UAE with operations across the Middle East, Europe and the United States. Committed to excellence, the Group invests in ideas that power tomorrow’s technology across diverse industries including education.
