DIRECTION HOW TO USE

CUISENAIRE RODS

ADDITION
Place the rods end to end, moving left to right to
make a train; find a single rod to match the
length of the train. The addends are the cars of
the train. The sum is the rod placed beneath the
addend train. If the addend train is longer than
orange, match it a with train made of as many
orange rods as will fit and whatever smaller rod
will fill out the length of the train.
SUBTRACTION
Place the smaller rod on top of the larger one
and see what rod is needed to make a matching
train or fill the gap. Place the subtrahend on top
of the minuend, and the difference is that rod
which fills up the space.

EXAMPLE:
Since the orange rod has a value of 10,
this picture shows 9+1=10.
It also shows 1+9=10.
It also shows 10-1=9
as well as 10-9=1