Does CLE use c-rods?

[TyraTooters]

I've got a chance to buy the MUS manipulatives (locally) so I was just wondering if CLE used the c-rods at all. Or if they'd be helpful to have even if the curriculum doesn't exactly call for them. Is be using second grade CLE.

[alisoncooks]

No, they don't.  The main materials I've used are counters (unifix cubes, counting chips) and place value blocks.  There is no work with the c-rods.

[Farrar]

As far as I know, the only full program that has the C-rods integrated into it is Miquon. There are other resources, such as Mathematics Made Meaningful, that help you use the rods. Of course now that there's Education Unboxed, I think that's a format most parents will find superior and it's free to boot.

 

If you find a program that you like but also want to use the rods, you can, of course, do that. Just maybe schedule a routine "rod time" once or twice a week and use the activities at Education Unboxed to find whatever topic you're working on in your math program and have your child play around with them.

[mohini]

CLE doesn't but I use MUS blocks with CLE very successfully.  Whenever my kids have a problem I tell them "go get the blocks." and we work it out with the MUS blocks.

[Ewe Mama]

We have used CLE levels 100-703 (so far) and have never found a reason to pull out the C rods for it.

[AimeeM]

I'm using CLE 1 right now and while CLE itself doesn't *use* c-rods, I've pulled them out several times, especially now that we're getting into place value.

[boscopup]

I always make manipulatives available for CLE, even though they don't mention their use. There might sometimes be some teaching with objects as counters in the TM, but I don't teach from the TM.

[Samiam]

Nothing mentioned by CLE, but as others have said, we use MUS blocks if needed. Recently sold those, so sometimes we use Legos !