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Cuisenaire1 rods (“C-rods”) are color-coded rods used in kindergarten through eighth grade to help students develop an intuitive understanding of concepts such as whole numbers, fractions, measurement, ratio, area, perimeter, symmetry, congruence, three-dimensional geometry, patterns, and functions. All rods have square cross-section 1 cm. by 1 cm. and integer lengths from 1 cm. to 10 cm. The rods are white (1 cm.), red (2 cm.), green (3 cm.), purple (4 cm.), yellow (5 cm.), dark green (6 cm.), black (7 cm.), brown (8 cm.), blue (9 cm.), and orange (10 cm.).
C-rods were invented by the Belgian schoolmaster Georges Cuisenaire (1891–1976) and are available through the Cuisenaire Company of America [4].
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Hare, E.O., Chinn, P.Z. (1996). Tiling with Cuisenaire Rods. In: Bergum, G.E., Philippou, A.N., Horadam, A.F. (eds) Applications of Fibonacci Numbers. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0223-7_15
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