This free math video shows an excellent activity to do with children who are first being introduced to Cuisenaire Rods – even older kids! It is so simple but develops intuitive understanding of so many things – addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts; the commutative property of addition and multiplication, division with remainders, the associative property of addition – all this without needing to mention any of those terms! Once the terms are presented, children will actually understand them instead of letting them go in one ear and out the other.
It’s fun to play this math game with two or more children. They can compete to see who can come up with the most individual combinations in a specified amount of time.
Did you know that square numbers like “7 squared” (with a little 2) actually have to do with SQUARES??? I never did until a few years ago. If you do the activity in this free math video with your children, square numbers will make complete sense to them when they get to that point in their math education.
This is just fun math play, but she is learning about size, quantity, counting, and internalizing the fact that numbers can be square!
This free math video shows a good activity to help establish the relationship of the white rod to every other rod in the set. Probably not needed more than once for older kids or adults, but good for the preschool age group!
