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Complete Mathematics/Teaching with Cuisenaire Rods: Counting and Arithmetic
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Teaching with Cuisenaire Rods: Counting and Arithmetic


This Cuisenaire course takes us on a journey from early number sense and counting through to the fundamentals of basic arithmetic.

Cuisenaire rods are used throughout to model and explain each of the key concepts and ideas when working with the four operations.
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Contents

An introduction to Cuisenaire Rods

This video gives a brief overview of the course and an introduction to Cuisenaire rods.
An introduction to Cuisenaire Rods
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Play!

This section of the course shows how play is an important part of Cuisenaire rods and how it can be used to introduce many mathematical ideas.
Learning through play
Preview

Counting

This section of the course shows how Cuisenaire can be used to model counting and our place value system. 
Numberness
Counting in base 10
Counting in base 5
Counting in other Bases Worksheet

Arithmetic

This section of the course we look at how Cuisenaire can be used to model the four operations.
Making Trains
Commutativity of Addition
The largest that can't be made Worksheet
The largest that can't be made
Number Bonds
Number Bonds Worksheet
The Comparison, or Difference Model
What can you make worksheet
What can you make?
Multiplication 1 × 1 digit and commutativity
Multiplication 1 × 2 digits
Multiplication 1 × 2 digits (larger numbers)
Multiplication 2 × 2 digits
Multiplication Worksheet
Division (Tables Facts)
Long division 1
Long division 2
Division Worksheet

Concreteness Fading

In this final section of the course, we take a look at the idea of 'concreteness fading' and the journey from concrete to abstract.
Scaled Multiplication Tables
Multiplication - A Journey
The Aim of Manipulatives

Summary

This section gives a brief summary of the course.
Summary of the Course