Thursday, January 30, 2014
Cuisenaire Rods
Cuisenaire rods are math-learning aids that provide students a hands-on way of learning fundamental math concepts, from the four arithmetical operations to working with fractions. They were originally designed by Georges Cuisenaire, a Belgian educator in the 1920s, and later popularized by Caleb Gattegno in the 1950s. Just as written musical notes allow one to visualize and perform music, Cuisenaire rods make mathematics visible by using wooden rods of varying lengths and colors. According to a primary school in Thuin, Belgium, students who were taught in this manner were said to have "learned mathematics faster than most other students in the world."
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i feel like this is so much more complicated than how we learn! does every different color mean a different number?
ReplyDeleteI know I was pretty confused myself but I guess visualizing the operations can help.
ReplyDeletethis is interesting but a little bit complicated. thanks for introducing it.
ReplyDeleteI like how they use color, it makes organizing it a lot easier, but still this is very confusing and learning it would be complicated
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