Hello, my name is Amanda and I'm going to show you some Cuisenaire rods. Cuisenaire rods were used for mathematics.
The colours and lengths represent one through to ten. One is a one centimetre cube and a ten rod is ten centimetres.
Here I have two examples of boxes they came in.
Children used the rods to learn addition and number sentences. For example, two plus two equals four, three plus two equals five.
Rods were used for multiplication facts, subtraction and fractions.
The language of Cuisenaire rods was mats, steps and trains.
We have many boxes of Cuisenaire rods in our collection as they were very popular maths resource in the 1960s and 1970s.
They were one of the first concrete mathematical materials used in classrooms.
In addition to set activities, students had opportunities to play with rods, experiment and discover mathematical concepts themselves.
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