{"id":11830,"date":"2015-04-19T13:21:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T13:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/19\/the-cuisenaire-gattegno-log-cabin\/"},"modified":"2015-04-19T18:55:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T22:55:38","slug":"the-cuisenaire-gattegno-log-cabin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/19\/the-cuisenaire-gattegno-log-cabin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cuisenaire-Gattegno Log Cabin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rods! Or more specifically, Cuisenaire\u00c2\u00ae Rods<\/a>! Staples of my childhood arithmetic education: coloured wooden rods (now plastic, which will save them from the mouldy fate that befell some sets at Mearns Primary School), 1 \u00c3\u2014 1 \u00c3\u2014 1\u00e2\u20ac\u201c10 centimetres long. Use them for counting, number lines, don’t-do-that<\/em> renditions of Sun Arise<\/a>, but absolutely never<\/strong> for flinging at tiny classmates.<\/p>\n

Since it may actually have been Mrs.<\/em> Cuisenaire who came up with the concept of rods, I drew a log cabin quilt section in virtual rods. The Gattegno<\/em> in the title refers to Caleb Gattegno, the mid-century educator who popularized Cuisenaire’s work.<\/p>\n

Should you too feel the need to have a virtual set of rods, here are some files you can play with in Inkscape<\/a> (or any other SVG-aware editor):<\/p>\n

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rods.svg \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A palette of horizontal and vertical rods<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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rods-quilt.svg – source for the header image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The colours might be a bit off reality, but they’re near enough. I found it helpful to set a grid snap in Inkscape to 1 cm so that you could get the rods to align easily. If you want to get really nerdy, here’s the PostScript source I used to create the rods: rods.ps<\/a>. I think I finally<\/em> got the hang of basic arrays in PostScript \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Creating this was in no<\/span> way<\/span> a means of me displacing getting round to doing my taxes this year, nosirree<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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