I had these as a child. I think I learned multiplication more from Lego blocks b...

deepnet · on July 31, 2015

I liked lego much later than cuisinaire but lego was not based on a unit cube like cuisinaire.

Lego has a different unit height than unit width.

Cuisinaire were better for flat math rather than cubic math ziggurats that I dimly recall building.

deepnet · on Aug 5, 2015

\\ correction

replace "Cuisinaire were..." with "Lego were better for flat math rather than the cubic math ziggurats..."

Large Cuisinaire would be good, one could start younger like Duplo but cuisinaire - it seems to me there is a lot of value playing with cuisinaire at a younger age, before any numbers are introduced.