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!
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What’s Missing?
This free math video introduces a quick activity to help familiarize children with the Cuisenaire Rods.
Cuisenaire Rods are excellent math manipulatives to use for teaching everything from addition to percents and beyond!
Learning the Rods
This free math video gives ideas for introducing Cuisenaire Rods. These ideas will work for older children, too, not only preschoolers. These should be done after much time spent in unstructured play with the rods.
The rod numbers are based on length and prepare the child to learn about addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions/decimals/percents (as well as negatives and algebra with a few cosmetic changes to the rods).