Learning Resources Connecting Cuisenaire Rods Introductory Set

Cuisenaire Stick is one of the best mathematical blocks ever. They can be used for countless mathematical ideas from enumeration from four operations to fractions. This series of courses are designed to participate in the cuzinea first. They are designed to be attractive and rewarding; they are also easy to distinguish and can be used to select places, groups, for the whole classroom or time. First of all let the students show the Cuisenaire stick and tell them there is time to make what they want. Let them play as soon as possible and observe their structure. After playing for 10 to 15 minutes it will take a few minutes to talk about what the students have noticed. How is the color? Which color is longer and which color is shorter? Can you make colors from other colors? (Record these and other student's questions as potential ideas for future exploration.) Next, we will try to sort students from shortest to longest colors.

Choose a red Cuisenaire stick and indicate that the difference between the blue stick and the black stick is a red Cuisenaire stick. If you make the students find another pair of poles, the difference is just a red pole. Work the students for a few minutes, then have them share the results. What patterns did they notice? What are their predictions? Let the students make staircases of various colors from last time. Once they build it, display the card on the next page and ask which cards explain the longest Cuisenaire bar line problem. In order to show students the structure, read all 10 cards in turn (1 orange, 2 blue, etc.). Then select the first two cards and ask if 1 orange or 2 blue will be longer. Let the students guess at first, then build lines they make from others and compare. Then repeat the blues contrast three times Brown twice

I am a language teacher and I am very interested in expanding the invention of colored bar for Cuisenaire's mathematics and language education by Gattegno. I use the Cuisenaire stick to create a visual analogy of the conversation and the sentence so that my students can feel the difference in verbatim sentences (no one can express it under normal circumstances). In the vocabulary method, instead of the words in the phrase / tone / group, like the musician's phrase note and dancer phrase step