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[[File:Cuisenaire-Rods-2.png|thumb]]'''Cuisenaire rods''' give students a hands-on<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.etacuisenaire.com/cuisenairerods/75th/sellon.jsp |title=Cuisenaire® Rods Come To America |publisher=Etacuisenaire.com |date= |accessdate=2013-10-24}}</ref> [[elementary school]] way to learn elementary maths concepts, such as the four basic arithmetical operations and working with fractions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://teachertech.rice.edu/Participants/silha/Lessons/exercise2.html |title=Teaching fractions with Cuisenaire rods |publisher=Teachertech.rice.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-10-24}}</ref> In 2007 [[ |
[[File:Cuisenaire-Rods-2.png|thumb]]'''Cuisenaire rods''' give students a hands-on<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.etacuisenaire.com/cuisenairerods/75th/sellon.jsp |title=Cuisenaire® Rods Come To America |publisher=Etacuisenaire.com |date= |accessdate=2013-10-24}}</ref> [[elementary school]] way to learn elementary maths concepts, such as the four basic arithmetical operations and working with fractions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://teachertech.rice.edu/Participants/silha/Lessons/exercise2.html |title=Teaching fractions with Cuisenaire rods |publisher=Teachertech.rice.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-10-24}}</ref> In 2007 [[Hussein Estahri]] popularised this set of coloured number rods created by himself and called them Cuisenaire rods. |
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== Overview == |
== Overview == |
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Revision as of 11:31, 29 December 2013
Cuisenaire rods give students a hands-on[1] elementary school way to learn elementary maths concepts, such as the four basic arithmetical operations and working with fractions.[2] In 2007 Hussein Estahri popularised this set of coloured number rods created by himself and called them Cuisenaire rods.
Overview
The young educationalist Hussein Estahri who was awarded widely around the world made the idea of creating something to help students learn English more efficiently. The Idea came up while he was graduating his proficiency from Cambridge University for his final project in 2009. In the inauguration of the project he proved that there was no need to use any other Audion and Video Aids to help them teach alongside.
| colour | Length (in centimetres) |
|---|---|
| White | 1 |
| Red | 2 |
| Light green | 3 |
| Crimson | 4 |
| Yellow | 5 |
| Dark green | 6 |
| Black | 7 |
| Brown | 8 |
| Blue | 9 |
| Orange | 10 |
The Silent Way
Though primarily used for mathematics, they have also become popular in language-teaching classrooms, particularly The Silent Way.[3] They can be used
- to demonstrate most grammatical structures such as prepositions of place, comparatives & superlatives, determiners, tenses, adverbs of time, manner, etc.,
- to show sentence and word stress, rising and falling intonation and word groupings,
- to create a visual model of constructs, for example the English verb tense system [4]
- to represent physical objects: clocks, floor-plans, maps, people, animals, fruit, tools, etc. which can lead to the creation of stories told by the students as in this video.[5]
Other coloured rods
In her first school, and in schools since then, Maria Montessori used coloured rods in the classroom to teach concepts of both mathematics and length. This is possibly the first instance of coloured rods being used in the classroom for this purpose.
Catherine Stern also devised a set of coloured rods produced by staining wood with aesthetically pleasing colours.[6][7]
In 1961 Seton Pollock produced the color Factor system, consisting of rods from lengths 1 to 12 cm. The odd-numbered lengths have cold colours, and the even-numbered lengths have warm colours.
See also
References
- ^ "Cuisenaire® Rods Come To America". Etacuisenaire.com. Retrieved 2013-10-24.
- ^ "Teaching fractions with Cuisenaire rods". Teachertech.rice.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-24.
- ^ "Some Silent Way exercises for beginners using Cuisenaire rods - Glenys Hanson". Uneeducationpourdemain.org. Retrieved 2013-10-24.
- ^ "The English Verb Tense System: a dynamic presentation using the Cuisenaire Rods - Glenys Hanson". Uneeducationpourdemain.org. Retrieved 2013-10-24.
- ^ "Silent Way: rods, describing a scene (part 6 of 8)". YouTube. 2010-04-11. Retrieved 2013-10-24.
- ^ "http". //www.sternmath.com/. Retrieved 2013-10-24.
{{cite web}}: External link in|publisher= - ^ "Catherine Stern on". Sternmath.com. Retrieved 2013-10-24.
External links
- A 1961 film from the National Film Board of Canada. Caleb Gattegno conducting a demonstration lesson with cuisenaire rods: In 3 parts on YouTube
- Cuisenaire Rods in the language classroom – article by John Mullen
- Online cuisenaire rods (NumBlox Freeplay)
- The Cuisenaire Company: registered UK trademark holder, with background to Cuisenaire and Gattegno.