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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Least Common Multiple – Free Math Tutoring Video
This free math tutoring video shows how to teach least common multiple using Cuisenaire Rods. This is helpful for everyone, but especially for those with visual or kinesthetic learning styles. The concept is easy to understand when you can see it in a picture and not just abstract symbols!
Learning About Multiples – Free Math Tutoring Video
This free math tutoring video shows how to introduce multiples to children using Cuisenaire Rods. If they have already been working with the rods for a while and know how to do mental addition, this should be no trouble at all! If not, then they can line up rods underneath the find the answer. It’s easy when you can SEE it!