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Mathematics at Your Fingertips

1961 27 min
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In today's classrooms various new ways are being tried to put children more at ease with numbers. This film shows one such system developed by a Belgian schoolmaster, Georges Cuisenaire. He carefully designed sets of coloured sticks to help children grasp simple mathematical relationships. (Originally released under the title Numbers in Colour.)

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Mathematics at Your Fingertips

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In today's classrooms various new ways are being tried to put children more at ease with numbers. This film shows one such system developed by a Belgian schoolmaster, Georges Cuisenaire. He carefully designed sets of coloured sticks to help children grasp simple mathematical relationships. (Originally released under the title Numbers in Colour.)
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  • director
    John Howe
  • producer
    Joseph Koenig
  • executive producer
    Guy Glover
  • photography
    Ray Jones
    Eugene Boyko
  • editing
    David Mayerovitch
  • sound editing
    Kathleen Shannon
  • narrator
    Stanley Jackson

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