DOOFUS AND VALIANT LOOK AT CUISENAIRE RODS
". . . the colored Cuisenaire rods are used to directly link words and structure with their meaning in the target language, thereby avoiding translation into the native language. The rods vary from 1 to 10 centimeters in length, and each rod has a specific color. The rods may be used for naming colors, for size comparisons, to represent people, build floor plans, constitute a road map, and so on. Use of the rods is intended to promote inventiveness, creativity, and interest in forming communicative on the part of the students, as they move from simple to more complex structures." -- Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, by Jack C. Richards and Theodore S. Rogers, Cambridge University Press, 2001
"Sometimes, in some places, the rods seem to have acquired a semi-mythical status, and to carry your box of rods into class is almost like wearing a sort of badge of EFL-eliteness." -- Learning Teaching by Jim Scrivener
WHiCH ARe You? A DOOFus OR a VALiANT?