diff --git a/requirements/edx/base.txt b/requirements/edx/base.txt
index c88d8614fc..49318c34f6 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/base.txt
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ PyYAML==3.12
 requests-oauthlib==0.4.1
 rules==1.1.1
 s3transfer==0.1.12
+numpy==1.6.2
 scipy==0.14.0
 Shapely==1.2.16
 singledispatch==3.4.0.2
diff --git a/requirements/edx/pre.txt b/requirements/edx/pre.txt
index 265cd46ad0..2dd0fc294c 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/pre.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/pre.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,3 @@
 pyparsing==2.0.7
 setuptools==37.0.0
 pip==9.0.1
-
-# Numpy and scipy can't be installed in the same pip run.
-# Install numpy before other things to help resolve the problem.
-numpy==1.6.2