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Your cart is empty.155 Rods for use with 4-6 students. In bucket.
Bob N
Reviewed in Canada on July 11, 2024
Great for kids to learn arithmetic and math. Also fun to play with !
karen tice
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2024
Bright colors. Easy to handle. Well made.
Wendy Shumway
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2023
I LOVE the wood blocks over the plastic sets.
LION
Reviewed in Mexico on December 12, 2019
Bonitos y ligeros
mnason williams
Reviewed in Mexico on October 10, 2018
Son las revistas de muy buen calidad. De madera, colores bonitos y las medidas exactas de 1cm hasta las 10cm.
Erin
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2018
We're a homeschool family. I bought these Cuisenaire Rods to go with our Miquon Math workbooks (which are amazing by the way). We switched to a more abstract hands on math program because my very bright child was struggling with addition and subtraction so I figured we'd tackle it from another angle. I started using these recently and was amazed at how quickly my son understood the concept that each color rod represented a number. He quickly figured out how to form addition and subtraction problems by putting the rods together. I was hesitant to buy these, but I am really glad I did.If you have any questions feel free to ask. My email is on my page if you'd rather communicate through there.
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on June 3, 2016
I first bought a set of these precision counting rods for my daughter when she was only 4 or 5 years old (she is in her forties now). Her brother then used them when he was old enough to understand them. I am a retired maths teacher from the UK and I can recommend these for children to help them to visualise the arithmetic they are learning. Excellent.
KB
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2016
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.
A customer
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2015
I bought these as an aid for my 12 year old who is having difficulty with math. They have made an enormous difference in her comprehension and she truly enjoys using them. Problems she could not answer without them, she easily answers using these rods. Even her math tutor was amazed- after so many struggles, we both said it seems like magic!! LOL. Hopefully they will help her retention as well, though we have only been utilizing them of a few weeks now. Time will tell!I found the rods themselves to be high quality wood, nicely painted, with easily distinguishable colors (barring color blindness, I guess). The plastic tub is decent quality, and very convenient for storing the rods. We even take them in her backpack when we meet with her tutor (they aren't too heavy or bulky).
Michelle
Reviewed in Canada on May 11, 2015
These are a great tool for children to get acquainted with math concepts (and especially for them to learn more independently if they're the do-it-myself type!). The quality is great - my two-year-old has been testing out the quality by banging the rods together and against other furniture and we haven't had any paint chip.Great buy!
Stratohound
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2014
This set contains 155 rods, which overlaps considerably with a full set of Cuisenaire rods, which has 241 rods.The manufacuring quality of the rods is consistent for each size and throughout the set.I would recommend buying a larger set of Cuisenaire rods--at least the full set of 241 rods--or two of these smaller sets (which might be cheaper, all in all), as the limitations of the small set become very ovious even when working with the rods by oneself with larger numbers or more rod-intensive configurations.I am a language teacher who is very interested in Gattegno's extension of Cuisenaire's invention of the colored rods for the teaching of mathematics and languages. I use Cuisenaire rods to create visual analogs of dialogues and sentence patterns so that my students can feel the difference between speaking word by word (which no one does in any language under normal circumstances, but they learn to do after having been conditioned with a grammar + vocabulary aproach to language learning) and instead phrase the words in intonational groups, much like musicians phrase notes and dancers phrase their steps.On a personal level, I also play around with the Cuisenaire rods to reteach myself basic mathematics, since I am one of the tens of millions of people who hit a wall in their study of math in elementary school. Reading Gattegno's books, I recall the mathematical terms used in class and the terror and confusion I felt as a kid who just wasn't getting it. I also intuitively recognize that, had I been taught visually and not verbally, I would have been much better at math and what Gattegno calls "mathematization."So I use the rods profesional for language teahcing and personally for my math re-education.
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