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.

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 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!

Bright colors. Easy to handle. Well made.

These are such amazing things! These rods were made of plastic. My kids love doing math using these. I don't store them in my container as I ordered 2 sets and instead store them in an open lid tub. The container however is PERFECT for storing other things! The colors are true to the picture. I recommend this set to anyone curious about these rods or those that already know they love using them! These help my children learn math basic facts all the way up to algebra and they are only in preschool, 2nd grade, & 4th grade. These rods taught my struggling math child learning to do the addition and subtraction facts in her head, as well as multipication and some division!

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.

A good teaching set -- timeless.

The container for keeping the rods together is an added bonus. The price was right comparatively, considering the number of rods.

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Es un producto excelente y llegó en perfectas condiciones

The number of pieces promised was 150 and I got only 149 pieces instead. One of the white cubes which is 1 cm square is missing from the box. This is deeply disappointing. Since I had planned a couple of lessons using this I had to go ahead and use it in class, but with a replacement for the missing piece in the form of a coin. Wish you had taken care to deliver what you promise.