[Gllug] open source centric ICT in Schools from Sept 2012 ?

Dave Cross dave at dave.org.uk
Wed Jan 11 16:32:59 UTC 2012


On 01/11/2012 04:27 PM, John Hearns wrote:

> Hells bells - I remember as a very wee laddie in Scotland learning
> arithmetic using number rods - real cubes and bars of wood, about a
> square centimetre in corss-section. You put them on your desk and
> added up and subtracted lengths of differen t rods. Great fun.

Cuisenaire rods - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods

I had those too in south-east England. Late 60s/early 70s.

Dave...
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