THE LEARNING EQUATION: 

              L = U + M 

Learning equals understanding plus memory. 

This programme is built upon the foundation of understanding and not learning by rote. 

The kinesthetic approach afforded by the rods provides the understanding.

This must be consolidated by memory recall. 

We remember via our senses.

You can begin to increase children’s capacity for recall now by engaging his/her senses in every activity. 

We have all experienced an occasion when a smell, a sound, a color, or a particular taste triggers memories we often did not know we possessed. 

The smell of leather transports me back to my first day in school. I see murals on the wall that have long since disappeared. Experience once again the panic of being abandoned by my mother for a whole day! 

Color, for example, is a greater stimulus for memory recall than verbal cues or objects (Backman et al and Allen) 

If your children want to build a fairy tale castle with the rods then ask them to imagine themselves standing outside the castle first.

What might they see, smell, hear, taste?

Get them to ‘see’ the object they are about to create in their mind.

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