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Mathematics at Your Fingertips
196127 min 30 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: John Howe
Production: Joseph KoenigGuy Glover
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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Subject categories
- Education > Child EducationCurriculumElementary School Teaching and EducationTeaching Methods
- Sciences > MathematicsTeaching Aids
Credits
- 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
Awards
- Chris Certificate Award - Category: Information/Education International Film and Video Festival
- Certificate of Merit - Category: Training and InstructionGenie Awards