Archive for January, 2009

Cuisenaire rods and WRGPYDKNEO

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Ever heard of the acronym WRGPYDKNEO? This stands for:

White - 白色
Red - 红色
Green - 浅绿色
Purple - 紫色
Yellow - 黄色
Dark green - 深绿色
blacK - 黑色
browN - 棕色
bluE - 蓝色
Orange - 橙色

These are small plastic rods each of which are assigned a number from 1 to 10. We’re trying these as a method for teaching Asher basic maths.

See the Wikipedia article on the subject here.

go go go

Thursday, January 8th, 2009


train travellers

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

hurstbridge line

Ying and Asher take the train.