Cuisenaire sticks
Mathematics has the task not of teaching calculus, but of teaching the methods of human thought in calculus.
Lev Tolstoy
As they say, everything ingenious is simple. This is just about Cuisenaire's counting sticks. This game is so simple and understandable, but what important, complex and abstract mathematical concepts it forms in young players.
Number and its composition, natural series of numbers, magnitude, order, ratio, operations on numbers, space. The child becomes familiar with all these concepts in an absolutely natural way - by playing with Cuisenaire's colored counting sticks.
My daughter Anya is absolutely delighted with the sticks. And how could it be any other way? After all, she has a real treasure in her box - as many as 116 sticks of different colors and sizes
