Re: Quisanaut? Cuisinaut? huh?

On 2 Nov 2004 02:37:01 GMT, peter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Peter
Moylan) wrote:

>For a minute there I thought this was a reference to Cuisenaire, a
>method of teaching primary school mathematics that was briefly
>popular in about 1960.

I think it, or something very similar, is still around.  My 5-year-old
granddaughter goes to a Montessori school in Peoria, and they
certainly use a rod-based system almost identical to the set we bought
for my son in the 1960s (in England), though I couldn't swear the
colours are the same.

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Katy Jennison

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