abstract:Cuisenaire rods give students a hands-on Cuisenaire® Rods Come To America elementary school way to learn elementary maths concepts, such as the four basic arithmetical operations and working with fractions.Teaching fractions with Cuisenaire rods In the early 1950s, Caleb Gattegno popularised this set of coloured number rods created by the Belgian primary school teacher Georges Cuisenaire (1891-1976), who called the rods réglettes.