{"id":507,"date":"2021-04-03T12:17:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T19:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/?p=507"},"modified":"2021-04-03T12:17:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T19:17:50","slug":"cuisenaire-rods-and-number-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/cuisenaire-rods-and-number-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuisenaire Rods and Number Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the students would say, &#8220;rods, rods, rods!&#8221; Initially, students commented about the colours of the rods and how there are many colours like the colours in a rainbow. Then, they learned that each rod has a value and when you place the rods in numerical order from 1 to 10, it forms a &#8220;staircase&#8221;. Fascinating! Students enjoyed playing with cuisenaire rods to find different ways of building numbers up to 10. For example, students learned that 7 is not just 7; 3 and 4 more equals 7 or 5 and 1 and 1 more equal 7.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about cuisenaire rods, please visit: https:\/\/www.hand2mind.com\/glossary-of-hands-on-manipulatives\/cuisenaire-rods<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-508\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/files\/2021\/04\/F5D42AE3-FC0B-4EC3-89FB-65FB5C0080A3-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/files\/2021\/04\/F5D42AE3-FC0B-4EC3-89FB-65FB5C0080A3-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/files\/2021\/04\/F5D42AE3-FC0B-4EC3-89FB-65FB5C0080A3.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-509\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/files\/2021\/04\/3D93EC6C-A75F-4EE6-B9FF-41A4EA9C42B5-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/files\/2021\/04\/3D93EC6C-A75F-4EE6-B9FF-41A4EA9C42B5-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/files\/2021\/04\/3D93EC6C-A75F-4EE6-B9FF-41A4EA9C42B5.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-510\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/files\/2021\/04\/17C9D492-4982-4BF1-825B-DA036F68C34A-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/files\/2021\/04\/17C9D492-4982-4BF1-825B-DA036F68C34A-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/files\/2021\/04\/17C9D492-4982-4BF1-825B-DA036F68C34A.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the students would say, &#8220;rods, rods, rods!&#8221; Initially, students commented about the colours of the rods and how there are many colours like the colours in a rainbow. Then, they learned that each rod has a value and when you place the rods in numerical order from 1 to 10, it forms a &#8220;staircase&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9822,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}