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

[Christopher Hunter]

On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 16:32 +0000, Dave Cross wrote:
> 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...

I had those too - Merseyside, late 50s, early 60s.  I got a set for my
daughter about 25 years ago, but had to buy them from France as they
didn't seem to be available over here.

Chris



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