Well, my long awaited and much worried over Cuisenaire rods arrived today in all their wooden glory!! Given that there is a postal workers strike going on here this was huge, and tells me that I CAN order some things for delivery.
I presented them to DD, showing her that they were a math tool and ecstatic to have her take them, manipulate them, and be solving Calculus problems by dinner. I came back in from the kitchen to find the ones were children, the twos, threes and fours were mommies, and the eights and nines were teachers. Everyone was positioned just as we were for a school assembly/show last week. DD was directing everyone and singing.
Yeah, she's a Dreamer. I think calculus is going to have to wait.