In this free math video, a bright 7-year-old gets a brief intro to fractions that equal one whole. Do this with various lengths until you see the light bulb go on in the student’s mind. It will take longer for some than others.
Cuisenaire Rods provide a visual and kinesthetic way for children to learn about numbers. They are also great for kids with dyslexia and dyscalculia!
This is part two in the series of videos showing my daughters doing an activity where they discover fraction rules on their own. In this free math video, you can see them begin to abstract the concepts once they’ve understood them in a concrete way. Of course, kids love big numbers so we end up with 1,000,000/2,000,000 at one point!!!
This activity should be done many times and with different rods being used as “one” in order to get the full benefit. With enough experience with the rods, children will begin to generalize the rules and extend them (as mine did in this video) into larger and more abstract numbers.
Cuisenaire Rods are a visual and tactile way for children to explore fraction concepts. They can discover for themselves the fraction rules that are often so hard to remember (because most of us have no visual representation to help the rules make sense!). These are a great learning tool. Go buy some!!!
This free math video shows my daughters doing the “discovering fractions” activity that I explained in this intro video. You can see them figuring out equivalent fractions, adding fractions with different denominators, and doing little bit of multiplying fractions.
In part two, they get into some more difficult stuff, so check that one out, too!
Cuisenaire Rods are a visual and tactile way for children to explore fraction concepts. They can discover for themselves the fraction rules that are often so hard to remember (because most of us have no visual representation to help the rules make sense!). These are a great learning tool. Go buy some!!!