This time around we started without paper and just used the Cuisenaire Rods. I tried to help my girls see more interesting ways of naming numbers to help develop more number sense and especially to work on fractions skills. This is a great activity to do to help you know where a child is at in their understanding and to help stretch their thinking to more mature ways of viewing numbers. You can work on all sorts of skills. It’s the type of activity that can be done many ways and at many levels!
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Finding the Next Square – Free Math Tutoring Video
It’s easy to find the next perfect square if you’ve been playing with Cuisenaire Rods!
Or you could try to remember this formula…
(n + 1)^2 = n^2 + 2n + 1
…hmmmm, which is more appealing to you? Seriously, WHY is math not taught this way everywhere???
Long Division – Part Three – Free Math Tutoring Video
This is part three in the series of videos about long division. This free math tutoring video has divisors and quotients that are 2-digit numbers and shows how you can use drawings to aid in the conceptual understanding of these types of problems. This method works especially well for visual, right-brained, or global learners.
For more practice, click here to download a worksheet.