Cuisenaire Task Library

1

Relationships Language Early ideas

Staircases

Compare and describe rod lengths without assigning number values.

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2

Structure Notation Algebraic thinking

Trains

Join rods end to end, name the structure and begin to record it symbolically.

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3

Equivalence Reasoning Proof

Equivalence

Different-looking constructions can have exactly the same length.

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4

Comparison Language Structure

Smaller, bigger, equal

Compare single rods and trains using relational language before formal inequality notation.

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5

Missing part Relationships Fluency

Complements

Find the part needed to complete one length to another.

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6

Difference Notation Comparison

Difference

See the difference as the physical gap between two lengths and record it compactly.

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7

Factors Multiples Remainders

Trains of one colour

Investigate which lengths can be composed from repeated equal rods, and what remains when they cannot.

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8

Parity Reasoning Proof

Odds and Evens

Move from physical definitions to conjecture, generalisation and proof.

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9

Fractions Whole Representation

Representing Fractions

Choose a whole and describe every other rod through its relationship to that whole.

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