Cuisenaire rods
Regletas de Cuisenaire
- Date
- 1945 · confidence high
- Place
- Thuin, Wallonia, Belgium
- Credited to
- Georges Cuisenaire
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Wooden or cardboard rods of different lengths and colours, devised by Belgian teacher Georges Cuisenaire to teach arithmetic operations, fractions and divisors through hands-on manipulation.
What it led to
- Worldwide popularisation through Caleb Gattegno's method
- Adoption in mathematics teaching in more than sixty countries
- Influence on other hands-on materials for school mathematics