We're bringing back subitising! Frequently overlooked, NumBots makes "counting without counting" a central feature in the early stages because, when done well, it lays the mental foundations for number bonds.

Building on their subitising skills, learners smoothly transition to number bonds. Over the course of NumBots, they'll become lightning fast at number bonds to 5, 10, 20 and 100.

Along the way, NumBots explicitly covers practical approaches such as bridging to the nearest 10, near doubles, partitioning numbers and compensating, by moving on from iconic image representations to the abstract.