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Cuisenaire

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Cui·se·naire  (kwz-nâr)
A trademark used for a set of colored rods and disks employed in the teaching of mathematics.


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The hands-on activities included manipulatives such as: counters, Cuisenaire rods, attribute blocks, Pattern Blocks, base-ten Blocks, papers, scissors, crayons, tapes, scales, bottles, colorful Buttons, beans, Geoboards, paper cups, straws, Unifex cubes, Tangram, ropes, and rulers.
They often played with Cuisenaire rods, sets of wooden blocks where each color block corresponds to a different unit length.
If bliss is quietly overwhelming, the extrovert color play aims for the requisite surfeit of meaning through its allusion to the counting system of Cuisenaire rods.
 
 
 
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