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Post by Judy on Nov 10, 2020 8:07:52 GMT
Do you or your setting use Cuisenaire rods? If so, how are they being used and with which age groups?
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Becky
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Post by Becky on Nov 10, 2020 19:19:52 GMT
We use them in our primary school across all age groups.
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Post by Katherine Bishop on Nov 12, 2020 3:02:06 GMT
I use rods of a different type - they are similar but you can feel a bump to divide the units, and they are colour coded but differently from the cuisenaire rods. I use them with tutoring students 1-1. I find that students who are struggling with addition and subtraction strategies, so primary aged (Years 2-5) benefit from them in learning place value, bridging strategies, general number sense etc.
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Jenny
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Post by Jenny on Nov 14, 2020 12:12:14 GMT
There are small boxes of them in each classroom. I have never seen them used. I am hoping to use them with my tutee but it means that even though she is 10, I'm going to need to spend some time with her just getting familiar with them.
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Post by catherine on Nov 14, 2020 12:34:52 GMT
I use Cuisenaire rods almost every day for so many things. Here are just a few:
1. Basic number bonds to 10, creating best friends and playing games with them based on Ronit Bird
2. Demonstrating bridging through 10 and multiples of 10 - this has been very successful as it follows on the number bond work
3. Creating arrays for multiplication and demonstrating that 3 x 4 is the same as 4 x 3 etc. I have also used them to show 6 x 7 can be 6 x 5 + 6 x 2, etc. This has been very successful as they can create their own versions. Also creating arrays for larger numbers such as 17 x 6 and portioning as an introduction to grid method.
4. Pattern work - odd and even numbers, prime numbers, square and cube numbers
5. Fractions and ratio - describing rods as a fraction or ratio of another rods
6. Algebra work - mainly based on Jo Boalers algebra mindsets and developing proofs
I have found that Cuisenaire rods have been particularly beneficial for my high achieving gifted kids, not just for the children that struggle with Maths as they rarely have the opportunity to use models as they went straight to the abstract concepts. The rods have clarified what they actually understand and enabled them to explain in different ways and identified some misconceptions.
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Post by Anna on Nov 14, 2020 15:23:58 GMT
I use Cuisenaire rods frequently when teaching maths in similar ways to previous comments. I also use them to teach languages too. Most children I work with respond best to multi-sensory teaching and the roda come in handy for verb endings (conjugations) and tenses too and provide a visual example of what has to happen to the word in order for it to make sense. I've also used them for timelines in history to show how long a period of time has lasted in comparison to another. I think they're a great tool for many elements of the curriculum.
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sami
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Post by sami on Nov 14, 2020 17:15:49 GMT
I love cuisinaire rods! I think they are great with the rod track to support understanding of calculation and to pattern spot . The range of ways they can be used is huge and pupils of all ages respond really well to them. Often I will return to them with a student at the proof and reasoning stage of a concept as well as at the initial discovery stage. One of my favourite resources.
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Post by Judy on Nov 15, 2020 17:15:21 GMT
Thank you for all of thos responses- some great use of Cuisenaire out there . They are often used for teaching language as well, that was one of there original uses. Beware of resources that look like Cuisenaire but aren't, so anything with ridges or marks on are not Cuisenaire- they are still useful but at more of a base ten/counting resource as the 10 rod is sectioned into 10. Whereas the Cuisenaire rods are all about the relationship between the rods- is the orange rod is twice the yellow rod. So if the yellow is 13 say, then the orange is 26- this is what makes them so versatile, but is also what can make them frustrating for some learners.
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