“This is the way we count our trains.....”

Abstract

(The following narrative bas been recorded with far more subjectivity than is usually associated with a description of the teaching and learning processes in elementary arithmetic. It describes the use of Cuisenaire rods in one of a series of sessions with a kindergarten child of low average mentality. The current efforts towards helping children to “see” relationships between numbers is the focus of this interview between a little girl and a person serving as an elementary school district consultant in arithmetic.)