### Cuisenaire Squares

These squares have been made from Cuisenaire rods. Can you describe the pattern? What would the next square look like?

### Rod Fractions

Pick two rods of different colours. Given an unlimited supply of rods of each of the two colours, how can we work out what fraction the shorter rod is of the longer one?

### Cuisenaire Environment

An environment which simulates working with Cuisenaire rods.

# Cuisenaire Spirals

##### Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Here are two open spirals made from cuisenaire rods.

I used only the even numbered rods.
You can experiment making spirals using the rods on this computer activity below.
There may be some sets of real Cuisenaire rods in your school.

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Click on 'Rods', to choose rods and and drag them onto the squared background.
A rod can be rotated by $90^\circ$ by clicking any key whilst dragging.
You can change the  background squares (smaller or larger) using the 'View' menu.

When you've done a lot of exploring you might like to try the something similar with numbers.
If you do, have a look at Number Spirals here.