This product is a math program from England that uses Cuisenaire rods to teach math at all levels, starting with preschool. It consists of a computer program for "playing" with the colored rods on a grid, an e-book with extensive instructions, and a User's Manual (all downloadable--no shipping involved). This is a wonderful program for a visual learner. On the preschool level, it gets the child ready for math by just providing play time with the rods, enabling the child to visualize sizes and comparable amounts--leading to addition. The curriculum teaches vocabulary (letter names and color names for the rods) and refers to this as "algebra before arithmetic." If the child uses the rods and learns the concepts from the beginning, the program builds into addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, algebra etc.

I own a set of Cuisenaire rods and have used them in the past with math, but I never really had the knowledge of how best to incorporate them into the program. With this very detailed e-book and the accompanying software and manual, I now have those tools available to me. I intend to start my kindergartener with this program so that she can have this opportunity from the start. She already is familiar with the rods and plays with them; now I can start her on her math journey. Just introducing the preliminary concepts has already proven successful with her, and she is excited about using the manipulatives and using the computer program provided.

I highly recommend this product and this ingenious approach to math, especially for all the visual learners in our homeschools.