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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
  • 1 min
  • 14.3 MB
Preview

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
  • 3 mins
  • 42.9 MB
Preview

Counting

This section of the course shows how Cuisenaire can be used to model counting and our place value system. 
Numberness
  • 2 mins
  • 25.5 MB
Counting in base 10
  • 2 mins
  • 22.4 MB
Counting in base 5
  • 2 mins
  • 35.7 MB
Counting in other Bases Worksheet
  • 67.2 KB

Arithmetic

This section of the course we look at how Cuisenaire can be used to model the four operations.
Making Trains
  • 4 mins
  • 62.7 MB
Commutativity of Addition
  • 4 mins
  • 64.4 MB
The largest that can't be made Worksheet
  • 110 KB
The largest that can't be made
  • 5 mins
  • 77.8 MB
Number Bonds
  • 6 mins
  • 97.1 MB
Number Bonds Worksheet
  • 120 KB
The Comparison, or Difference Model
  • 3 mins
  • 44.8 MB
What can you make worksheet
  • 104 KB
What can you make?
  • 4 mins
  • 70.9 MB
Multiplication 1 × 1 digit and commutativity
  • 3 mins
  • 44 MB
Multiplication 1 × 2 digits
  • 2 mins
  • 33.3 MB
Multiplication 1 × 2 digits (larger numbers)
  • 2 mins
  • 35.5 MB
Multiplication 2 × 2 digits
  • 4 mins
  • 58.8 MB
Multiplication Worksheet
  • 276 KB
Division (Tables Facts)
  • 2 mins
  • 25.8 MB
Long division 1
  • 4 mins
  • 64.3 MB
Long division 2
  • 4 mins
  • 61.2 MB
Division Worksheet
  • 278 KB

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
  • 2 mins
  • 37.2 MB
Multiplication - A Journey
  • 3 mins
  • 42.1 MB
The Aim of Manipulatives
  • 2 mins
  • 22.1 MB

Summary

This section gives a brief summary of the course.
Summary of the Course
  • 1 min
  • 12.1 MB