Why Number Sense Activities Aren’t The Answer

I'm taking a slight detour from our study of the number 11 with Gattegno Mathematics Textbook 1 and diving into the deep waters of number sense activities and why we don't do them. And why I don't think

Find The Missing Number With Cuisenaire Rods

This blog post continues my series on Gattegno's Mathematics Textbook 1 with number studies.  We're in chapter 6 in number studies. The post will cover three activities for number study using number

Teaching Numbers 11-20 With Number Studies

This blog post is part of my series on Gattegno's Mathematics Textbook 1. We are on chapter 5 where we are teaching the numbers 11-20 through number study.Number study is likely new to most folks. But,

Numbers Up To 20 with Cuisenaire Rods

We are nearing the end of the series on Gattegno's Textbook 1. This last chapter deals with numbers up to 20. You'll notice it isn't 11-20, given that we did 1-10 already. Nope, Gattegno, in perfect Gattegno

What Cuisenaire Rods Do When No One Is Looking

Cuisenaire Rods – One Can Be Anything

The study of 1-10 is coming to a close and so is Chapter 4 of Gattegno Textbook 1. This last section, we cover the Cuisenaire Rod mantra - One Can Be Anything. The rods are not marked for a reason. You

Cuisenaire Rod Staircases – All About Counting

We're making Cuisenaire Rod staircases again in connection with numbers 1-10. We're in chapter 4 of the Gattegno Mathematics Textbook 1 series, which you can get here. Flip to page 60. Gattegno

Learning Numbers 1-10 Review

This blog post continues our work in Gattegno's Textbook 1. In the last post, I finished up with the number 6. At that point, we'd covered all the exercise variations that Gattegno uses for learning numbers

Charlotte Mason Math

My friend Lacy over at Play, Discover, Learn recently wrote this post about Charlotte Mason math. The result was a sudden increase of folks into the Facebook group and a tiny bit of controversy about Cuisenaire