Cuisenaire Rods are fabulous. I recommend them for everything from teaching pattern recognition, to teaching addition, multiplication, subtraction, division and fractions. They are a fantastic tool for the kid who need the visual stimulation or the sensory stimulation, and in this day and age of 'number sense' all kids need it. All kids have always needed it just never knew about it.
I use the one color set of single cubes, 10-cube rods, 100-cube flats and 1000-cube cubes. These are wonderful too but the color adds something else to the element of understanding.
I use these with Sunlight Boy to study numbers as groups of 100s, 10s and ones.
I use them with Ballet Girl to study subtraction from 100. It's a breeze. It's fun.
I have found that while my kids can do and understand a lot, if you just leave them tools to play with, they will enjoy what they have learned and will play and find patterns on their own. This I think is the point or at least this is the state I want my kids to reach and not let go of .
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