Cuisenaire rodn.
One of a set of wooden rods of different length and colour according to the number they represent, invented by Cuisenaire as an aid in the teaching of arithmetic to children.
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1954 G. Cuisenaire & C. Gattegno Numbers in Colour p. vi For the child engaged in work with Cuisenaire's rods, the monotonous and uncertain feeling that is associated with counting is transformed into an exciting, intense experience of the active intellectual mind.
1962 Listener 5 Apr. 593/2 Dr. Dienes's structural games are widely used, as are the Cuisenaire rods and the original apparatus devised by Stern.
1965 in P. Jennings Living Village (1968) 208 Children are introduced to number work by using Cuisenaire Rods. Each child has a box of ten compartments with wooden rods of different colours and lengths. Each colour stands for a number of units, and the rods increase in length from one unit to ten units.
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