does anyone use a c-rod track?

[lorrainejmc]

I ordered one today to use as a number line along with MM....

[Kuovonne]

I have a c-rod track, and while it is fun, we don't use it much. I find it was most useful when introducing multiplication and division.

[momsuz123]

I do - my younger dd loves it. I read on some thread how it was a must, so being new to Miquon, I did.

[Julie of KY]

I have one and the kids play and learn from it, but I don't really use it to teach.

[blondeviolin]

I bought one and it sits next to my bookshelf. It's kind of pointless here. Take that with a grain of salt, though, because we're not quite to the point of multiplication and division too deeply. We do have a jillion rods, though...so maybe that's why we don't use the track.

[Dana]

We used Miquon for a bit as a supplement in grades 1 & 2. Singapore is our main program.

 

We did use the rods but we never used the track.

[KristenR]

We don't have a track. Where did you order your from?

[Mommyfaithe]

We never used ours, except for a sword.....:tongue_smilie:

Faithe

[kristinannie]

what is a c-rod track?

[Dmmetler]

I have one that goes both positive and negative. DD enjoyed playing with it for awhile, then put it away, but C-rods and base 10 blocks have both been used more as building toys than as actual math manipulatives around here.

[Nart]

My 5 yo DS loves the track and it only costs $3.95. It is the only way he wants to play with the C-rods. Here is a link to a picture of it:

http://rainbowresource.com/pictures/014565/d420e12af5320e4c7f951fcc

 

It is like a centimeter ruler with a groove where the c-rods can fit. DS likes to verify the lengths of rods and to find out how much different amounts of rods add up. For example an hour ago he put in two blue rods and a red one and asked me if I knew that 9+9+2 equaled 20. Then I had him swap it for orange ones. He switched and said "two orange rods are two tens and that is twenty."

 

Another great activity to learn numbers to 100 is to build numbers using only orange and white rods. He would grab a mix of the rods and insert them in the track and figure out for example, three orange rods and seven whites is 3 tens and seven ones which is 37. He liked verifying this fact by looking at the centimeter markings on the track.

 

And lastly it is a centimeter ruler which came in handy when I had to measure something. I don't think you could buy a 50 centimeter ruler for less than four dollars anywhere.

[lorrainejmc]

We don't have a track. Where did you order your from?

 

I'm in the UK so I got mine from Amazon UK. It's made by Numicon and is in 10cm connectable pieces up to 100cm.

 

 

My dd is currently learning division with remainder so I thought it would be easier than her current method of placing counters on a 100s chart.:tongue_smilie: But mainly I got it for my 8 yr old ds who has speech/language/comprehension difficulties. He is very strong visual learner.

[mom2att]

When my youngest was starting to learn multiplication, we used the c-rod track frequently. Put one nine rod on, you're at 9. A second nine rod takes you to 18, a third to 27, etc. I think it's a great visual representation of skip counting and multiplication.

[In the Rain]

I bought one and had it around for a couple of years. I don't think we ever used it. :blush5:

[Amira]

We used them, but it seems like they were more often turned into swords like a previous poster, but now that we're using the rods again with my youngest, my oldest keeps saying we need our tracks. I guess he got more out of them than I thought he did, at least mathematically.

[Jay3fer]

I was very eager to get one but it honestly has been used only a couple of times. But like pp's, we haven't done multiplication, and also, to be fair, Miquon isn't our main math program.

[Deb in NZ]

We have 3 rod tracks (100, 50, & 20). I found them to be a wonderful addition to Miquon Maths. Yes, you can do Miquon without a rod track, but when you get to multiplication & division the track makes everything so-o-o-o much clearer IMHO. Miquon begins to introduce multiplication & division in the first book, so having a way to show the "why" easily & clearly is important IMHO.