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Bought for the grandchildren to play with at our house.

My child really enjoys playing with these.Day by day we can take that play and start discussing mathematical conceptsBigger or smaller?How many white ones make a orange one?Pretty much every primary maths concept can be explained using these as a visual aide.Brilliant price, great quality and I feel like buying more.If you have a child under 5, you should get this to give them a good start to mathematical thinking.

Viga Wooden Maths Rods Set:Lovely set of wooden Cuisenaire Rods. I like working with Cuisenaire Rods because of all the possibilities to practically apply maths problems.These keep what they promise: they are wooden and nicely painted in the traditional Cuisenaire colours as would be expected. I personally prefer wood to plastic so I like them. There are lots of white ones but very few of the longer ones so you cannot make a square just from the orange, blue, or brown ones (i.e. using just one colour), which I thought was a bit wanting. There are only 6 each of the orange, blue and brown ones. (10 of the black, dark green, and yellow ones, 12 pink ones, 36 light green and red ones each and the rest is white) I would prefer to have at least 10 tens, 9 nines, and 8 eights but other than that they are okay. I am contemplating getting another box because of this.They are quite small so very young children might have problems handling them but most people use them for primary school age up. I like to use them with pre-schoolers because it gets them used to maths in a playful way and I stress that they are a toy so they don't get stressed out later when they find out it is maths they have been doing with them all along. I'd like a bigger version of these that would be easier to handle; however, traditionally 1cm is the standard size for Cuisenaire rods because it makes sense from a mathematical point.I reckon that anyone going for Cuisenaire Rods wants just that and this is what you get in a practical wooden box with an easy to slide out clear plastic cover.

Good quality product in nice case.I would have given it five stars but I would have liked more of the 'ten blocks' for teaching purposes. Also it would have been better for teaching if they had the number they represented printed on. A minor point as I wrote the numbers on.

This is a great set. Having seen the prices of alternative wooden sets with far fewer pieces, I was expecting these to be cheap and cheerful, so I was very pleasantly surprised by the quality. OK, so they're not hand-carved mahogany; they are mass produced from some unspecified light-ish wood, but they are mostly perfect and the stand up well to use. There are 3 or 4 slightly malformed ones in my set (all 1's, of which there are plenty anyway). The storage box is nice, too.

Fantastic! My parents bought me cuisenaire in the 50s and, aged 68, I still see the coloured rods in my head when I am adding up. It helps I am sure. My kids used the set occasionally as I wasn't able to find any to buy in the 80s to have at home. Now they have kids of their own they have asked for the set! I have bought 2 sets now so there are enough for each little family of the next generation! The "ones" are painted white as opposed to the plain wood of my original set and I would have preferred a few more of the longer rods. However it's a nice set in a useful box. We had a couple of books to go with the set when I was I child, but sadly they are no longer around. There didn't seem to be anything useful or reasonably priced in the way of books available on the Internet, which is a shame. Perhaps someone could produce a reasonably priced one suitable for families at home. However you don't really need the books, the joy is in the pattern making and the inherent use of mathematics in pattern making "playing" with basic arithmetic. Get a set for your primary age kids... They will love it.

I bought these for my 4 year old daughter to help her develop her months skills. These do a great job as a visual aid to help her understand numbers and simple mathematical functions. I also love that they are made of wood rather than plastics nd they seem like they might last for many many years.

bought these for my 5 yr old granddaughter. My brother and I had a set bought about 50 yrs ago and my children used them then I had a clear out.Granddaughter likes them and is getting the hang of subtraction with them. There will be sufficient pieces in the box if only one person is using them. They come in a wooden box with a clear perspex slide in lid so its easy to see whats inside.Just need to make sure the lid isn't put down where it might get trodden on.Not quite the same quality as 50 yrs ago but nicely painted/stained and they do the job.

Comprado para apoyar los ejercicios de matemáticas para un niño de 6 años de primero de primaria. Como gracias a su caja de almacenamiento. Piezas de madera coloridas. Tapa de plástico transparente. Ordenar las piezas también es un juego. Cómodo la guardar en la estantería.

la scatola si presenta con una chiusura scorrevole in plexiglass trasparente, ( meglio applicarci una etichetta altrimenti quando la si appoggia non si trova più) , i mattoncini sono ben rifiniti, perfettamente squadrati ma non pericolosi e rispettano le proporzioni tra l'i1 e il 10, non rilasciano colore ( ho provato a pulirli ). ottimo prodotto vs i regoli di plastica

Presque exactement le même que celui avec lequel j’ai appris les mathématiques en primaires! les réglettes sont en bois peint. J’utilise aujourd’hui ce jeu pour l’apprentissage des rythmes musicaux.

Echt klasse. Qualität super. Menge der Stäbchen ist absolut genug. Besonders toll finden wir, dass auf dem Deckel die Stäbchen und deren Wert aufgedruckt sind.

I bought these to teach fractions to my child. When teaching fractions, you need divisibility. That means that blocks should match up to others eg 10 small white blocks should make up one of the bigger ones. Then 3 others (for thirds), 4 others (for fourths) etc make a whole. This box is useless. All it is good for is to count or grouping for multiplication - you can use beans for that.You can show that 2 halves make 1. You can't show thirds, quarters, sixths, sevenths. You can show fifths.What is the point?