Cuisenaire Math Rods

For every letter we study, we do a page with math rods. The kids are asked to “Build the P with rods of all different colors.” and then “Which colors did you use?” or “Build the P with only one color” and so on. They then color the P where the rods are placed and cover each color with the single-unit white rods. In this way, they find the numeric value of each different color. This gives them practice with whole number addition and multiplication concepts. They are also learning that more than one number sentence for the same sum can be generated.