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Posted: Sept 13 2007 at 10:09pm | IP Logged Quote JEJE
Hello everyone

Does anyone know of free, online cuisenaire rod lesson ideas? I'd love to glean some ideas for showing my 7 yo regrouping and borrowing in an interesting, hands on way. We actually have the MUS blocks instead of the cuisenaire rods, but we don't use any set curriculum.

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Posted: Sept 13 2007 at 11:15pm | IP Logged Quote cathhomeschool
Math toolbox (or here as an HTML page) has some great examples of homemade math manipulatives, and in the Base Ten Block section they show regrouping.

We have Math U See and teach it in that way. We have a big chart and, using tag board, I made a blue "tens" house (It is a blue rectangle topped with a triangular roof and chimney -- the typical "house" that a first grader would draw. The rectangle portion of the house will fit 9 blue ten blocks.), a skinny green "units" house (that holds 9 green unit blocks), and I should have (but didn't) make a large red "hundreds" house. I placed my houses in proper order at the top of each column on my chart. The numbers to add went below (made out of necessary blocks). It was easy to see when regrouping or borrowing was needed because the boys could place the blocks in the house and see when the house was too full and they needed to move out to have enough space for that tenth block. I hope that this wasn't too long winded or too much/unneeded info! I have a tendency to go on and on...   

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Posted: Sept 14 2007 at 1:50pm | IP Logged Quote JEJE
This is *perfect* - exactly the kind of idea I was looking for

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