Friday, August 20, 2010

more cuisenaire rods

Belgian inventor and primary school teacher, Georges Cuisenaire (1891-1976), published a book in 1952 called Les nombres en couleurs and the use of rods for both mathematics and language teaching (the Silent Way) developed by Cuisenaire and popularized by Caleb Gattegno. It later widely utilized by Maria Montessori to teach concepts of both mathematics and length.

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