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

[Philip Hands]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:30:06 +0000, Christopher Hunter <cehunter at gb-x.org> wrote:
> 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.

I'll have to knock some of them up on my RepRap for my about-to-be-born
daughter (particularly since she's liable to have a touch of dyslexia
From me, so using physical objects is liable to suit her nicely).

Speaking of which, check this out:

  http://things.hands.com/thing/foetoscope/

Cheers, Phil.
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