Cuisenaire rods

[Irene]

Those rods were around years ago - I remember them from school, and yes, they were to do with mathematics!!
In their very simplest form, they were used for adding up. Ie green might be 3 and yellow might be 4. if you put both together, you would get 7, which might be a pink one. Can't remember what colours were what, but certainly remember the rods!! I think they were used for much more than that, but it was all too long ago now for me to remember!!!
I'm either older than some of you who don't remember them, and/or younger than others of you that don't remember!!!

[Dave Smith]

Irene, Elaine tells me I don't remember them because I never had them way back when but our kids had them, huh I don't remember that either.

TTFN

[Bob Pacey]

Yeah good one Dave your jokes are improving.


Thanks for the laugh

Bob

[Leonie]

I remembered them too when I saw the picture. I think my kids must have had them at some stage. At first I thought it might have been back in my own childhood but that was probably more like the age of the abacus.

[Kym]

Yup, it seems like one of those things that will show up on "My Generation" one day. They must have only appeared in the 70's (maybe 80's???). I was talking to a teacher about them, and said they were replaced by MAB blocks which were all brown (since some children found the colours confusing - shoosh Maureen!), but MAB blocks only came in 1's, 10's, 100's and 1000's. Brown blocks, eeww .... bring back the colours!!!!!

[Maureen K Clifford]

Kymmy - The old grey mare, she ain't what she used to be ... would you rather be piebald????

OK OK zipped and locked

[Kym]

Piebald? Well, actually, I think I'm getting that way. Lots of pie around the waist and I certainly don't have the lovely long flowing golden locks that I used to ...

[Heather]

Kymmie the yellow is a bit hard to read.

[Kym]

I know, I know. I saw that too, but I couldn't be bothered taking the time to fix it ...

[Dave Smith]

most if the kids in my school had little round counters, me I just used me fingers and toes 'cos ya allways had them with you, you could only count to ten if ya was running though.