Category Archives for Gattegno Textbook 1

Introducing Zero

This is my last official post on Gattegno Textbook 1 which you can get free here. I'm sure we will be back and forth, but my 2 year series has come to a close with the introduction of zero. I'll be doing

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Numbers In A Series – Another Round of Staircases

One of last things in Gattegno Mathematics Textbook 1 is a section on numbers in a series. You can get a free copy online here. If you've been playing with staircases, you'll know that all we are doing

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Math Composition – Number Studies Wrap-Up

I am nearing the home stretch on Gattegno Textbook 1. It's been nearly two years of blogging on this textbook. We are ending the Number Studies series by writing a math composition. What is a math

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Multiplication Activities for Number Studies

In the last post on number studies, we started talking about single color trains and a few of the multiplication activities we use to study an individual number. This post will nearly wrap-up single color

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Number Studies for 11 – Single Color Trains

We're still doing an in-depth look at number studies found in chapter 6 of Gattegno Mathematics Textbook 1. You can get the book free by clicking on the image. This post covers single color trains and

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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