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...Died. Emile-Georges Cuisenaire, 84, creative educator who invented an internationally recognized method of teaching children to count by associating numbers and colors; in Thuin, Belgium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 12, 1976 | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

Cuisenaire, who became the head of his local grade school in Thuin in 1934, retired 13 years later to complete work on his invention and to publish his findings in a book, Nombres En Couleur (1951). Cuisenaire's brainchild was a set of ten different colored wooden rods ranging in length from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 12, 1976 | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

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