Learning Resources Cuisenaire Rods Small Group Classroom Set, Math class, Teacher aids, 155 Piece Wood Set

I highly recommend that you buy the wooden Cuisenaire rods. The precision of the lengths is better than the plastic ones. This particular set is beautifully made and comes in a clear plastic container. The assortment is a good one for multiple uses of the rods. I bought a second container for tutoring once I saw the quality. This basic set was later developed into the Dienes Blocks, also called base ten blocks, wherein the color pattern continues using the white one rod and the orange ten rod. I recommend buying base ten blocks that build on this color system to make understanding the relations among numbers more easy. If Cuisenaire rods are new to you, you are in for a treat. As a modeling tool for arithmetic, they are beyond compare. When using them to represent the numbers one to ten, children see and feel relative length and learn measurement in centimeters. Instead of the flawed flashcard method for memorizing facts, lining up the rods beside a meter stick shows the learner exactly what 5+3 or 3+5 looks like. For multiplication, the rods are extremely valuable for showing that eight yellow rods is not the same situation as five brown rods though they are the same total length (8x5=5x8). Beyond this, the rods can represent fractional parts and are useful for making models for area and volume. On YouTube there is a remarkable video of Gaetagno working with Montreal first graders in 1963 that begins to show how Cuisenaire rods can encourage high level thinking in very young children. The Miquon books are helpful resources for using these rods. For those of you who work with the Singapore block diagrams or the Math Playground Thinking Blocks activities, the Cuisenaire rods are invaluable aids for representing word problems. Music teachers can use the rods in measure groups to "annotate" simple rhythm patterns brilliantly. Strongest recommendation.

This is my favorite set of Cuisenaire Rods available in the US. I like that they are wood (not plastic) and do not have the delineation lines for the ones, which is important for dyscalculic students gaining a sense of number and quantity. They are also the perfect size, at 155 pieces to work with one student and a tutor/teacher. Smaller sets than this don't allow enough pieces to adequately play games and do math activities with one student. I highly recommend this Small Group Set of Cuisenaire Rods from Learning Resources!

These blocks have inspired my 7 year old to enjoy math finally! We were really struggling to keep her engaged with math and doing her homework was torture! A math teacher friend of ours recommended these to keep things fun and to create a different approach to learning math. She has been loving it! Really recommend these to anyone, any age, struggling with math!

This set contains 155 rods, which overlaps considerably with a full set of Cuisenaire rods, which has 241 rods. The manufacuring quality of the rods is consistent for each size and throughout the set. I would recommend buying a larger set of Cuisenaire rods--at least the full set of 241 rods--or two of these smaller sets (which might be cheaper, all in all), as the limitations of the small set become very ovious even when working with the rods by oneself with larger numbers or more rod-intensive configurations. I am a language teacher who is very interested in Gattegno's extension of Cuisenaire's invention of the colored rods for the teaching of mathematics and languages. I use Cuisenaire rods to create visual analogs of dialogues and sentence patterns so that my students can feel the difference between speaking word by word (which no one does in any language under normal circumstances, but they learn to do after having been conditioned with a grammar + vocabulary aproach to language learning) and instead phrase the words in intonational groups, much like musicians phrase notes and dancers phrase their steps. On a personal level, I also play around with the Cuisenaire rods to reteach myself basic mathematics, since I am one of the tens of millions of people who hit a wall in their study of math in elementary school. Reading Gattegno's books, I recall the mathematical terms used in class and the terror and confusion I felt as a kid who just wasn't getting it. I also intuitively recognize that, had I been taught visually and not verbally, I would have been much better at math and what Gattegno calls "mathematization." So I use the rods profesional for language teahcing and personally for my math re-education.

We're a homeschool family. I bought these Cuisenaire Rods to go with our Miquon Math workbooks (which are amazing by the way). We switched to a more abstract hands on math program because my very bright child was struggling with addition and subtraction so I figured we'd tackle it from another angle. I started using these recently and was amazed at how quickly my son understood the concept that each color rod represented a number. He quickly figured out how to form addition and subtraction problems by putting the rods together. I was hesitant to buy these, but I am really glad I did. If you have any questions feel free to ask. My email is on my page if you'd rather communicate through there.

I bought these as an aid for my 12 year old who is having difficulty with math. They have made an enormous difference in her comprehension and she truly enjoys using them. Problems she could not answer without them, she easily answers using these rods. Even her math tutor was amazed- after so many struggles, we both said it seems like magic!! LOL. Hopefully they will help her retention as well, though we have only been utilizing them of a few weeks now. Time will tell! I found the rods themselves to be high quality wood, nicely painted, with easily distinguishable colors (barring color blindness, I guess). The plastic tub is decent quality, and very convenient for storing the rods. We even take them in her backpack when we meet with her tutor (they aren't too heavy or bulky).

I enjoyed cuisinaire rods in 4th grade. I remember that my teacher even had the scale so you could check sums that way (in addition to length). I know that the plastic sets get a lot of complaints from customers. This set is wooden and clearly and completely painted... exactly like the rods I fooled around with so many years ago. I bought these for my just - shy- of - 6 year old grandson whose class is not teaching addition by using memorization of tables (honestly, I feel that's the only way to go, but this is not the place for a curriculum debate). He had been confused by the complications of equations, and I could see he just needed to wrap his head around the actual physical process of something having greater units than something else. I wanted him to find an enjoyable way for us to just cut back the approach and see what a number represents. So I bought him this set. The set comes with no instructions or hints, so you kind of have to do your own research. I got him the set on a day when his uber-competitive , smarter, older brother did not also get a new toy or surprise. Wow, did this make the rods seem very valuable and special. The little one was really chuffed to be sole owner of this new interesting set of blocks and that motivated him to invest a bunch of time checking them out. But all I did was show him how the white cube was "one" and the red rectangle twice its size was "two" and so on. Immediately, he just started making a stair-step of the blocks, and he was rapt for (I am not kidding) half an hour, just making these gradients. With rods he wasn't using, I showed him that the one and the nine rods were the same length as the ten rod. So he caught on and started organizing the rods to equal length. Amazingly, he loved calling the rods the different numbers that they were representing. In a little while, he said, very matter-of-factly, "these are all different ways of making ten!" Like it was his own realization and he was very happy to discover this simplicity. I have left it at that for now, and will be doing some other challenges with him next, but the main thing is, a little guy who hated math, lost in an overcrowded class room at school, has discovered his own basic understanding of addition, and I didn't have to do more than get him started with the number concept. Looking forward to the next step towards learning his sums and subtractions, using this set.

Love these rods. They are useful for any math curriculum but I got them for Miquon Math. Also go to Education Unboxed website for lots of great ways to use them. I used that for preschool math instead of a textbook. Amazing how much little kids can do with math bc of these things prior to realizing it or being formally taught.

Es un producto excelente y llegó en perfectas condiciones

Great for kids to learn arithmetic and math. Also fun to play with !

Son las revistas de muy buen calidad. De madera, colores bonitos y las medidas exactas de 1cm hasta las 10cm.

Highly recommended, good quality reglettes Cuisenaire, fantastic for teaching little ones the basic concepts of math. I wish they had more rods in the package but otherwise cool

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