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Re: Is this an exceptionally hard set of questions to answer?
Posted:
Oct 2, 2002 1:08 PM
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"Karl M. Bunday" <"kmbunday"@yahoo.de.com.de (remove \".de\" twice to
E-mail)> writes:
> "Magi D. Shepley" wroteÃÂáG
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> > For the student with difficulty learning math:
> > Cuisinaire rods, and other math manipulatives of this type
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> Thanks for the suggestion. I have seen Cuisenaire rods in action
> with kids who self-describe as liking math, and who appear to have
> good math ability according to tests.
I don't know if the following is relevant to the above discussion, but
it might be a datum of interest to somebody.
I never had difficulty learning math (and I now have a Ph.D. in math),
but my earliest memory of any math class is playing with Cuisenaire
rods (though I just learned that's what they're called - I always
thought of them as "those coloured wooden rectangular things"). My
next memory of any math class is seemingly endless repetition of
"2+3=__, 3*7=__". Of those two memories, the Cuisenaire is the happy
one.
Kevin.
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