Cuisenaire rods
Numicon Ltd
Category
Education objects
Date
2006 - 2007
Materials
Wood, plastic and cardboard
Measurements
Cube - 10 mm (length); 10 mm (width); 10 mm (height), Box - 336 mm (length); 228 mm (width); 25 mm (height)
Place of origin
Pine Close, 12, Avis Way, Newhaven
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 663189
Summary
A set of coloured wooden rods and plastic cubes for use as a mathematics teaching aid. The plastic cubes are white and the coloured (stained) wooden rods are the corresponding lengths of multiples of the cubes. There are 108 cubes, 50 red 2s, 36 green 3s, 28 purple 4s, 20 yellow 5s, 16 dark green 6s, 14 black 7s, 12 brown 8s, 12 blue 9s and 10 orange 10s (306 in total). Each set of coloured rods is contained in a shape moulded into the clear plastic insert in the original box. The cubes are spread between four compartments - twelve in each of two of them, fourteen in another and sixteen in another. The box is made of corrugated cardboard with a white paper coating. Stuck to the lid is a white paper label colour printed with an image of coloured plastic shapes and black numbers, along with manufacturer's information. This, however, seems to relate to numicon rods - a different kind of teaching aid. Total number of items is 309.
Makers and roles
Numicon Ltd, maker