ROUNDUP RARE Vintage Rote Counting Math New Ways with Numbers 1960s School Tool
In the 1960s schools in the Cleveland Ohio area used a learning toy / tool called Roundup. This consisted of plastic attached beads that were arranged in blocks of 100, strips of green plastic beads in rows of 10 and individual beads.
The purpose was to teach elementary students numbers.
ROTE COUNTING
These green beads were used for "Rote Counting".
For rote counting, the student was asked to recite numbers in order up to a certain point. Rote counting didn't apply to quantity, but it was an important first step in learning how to count with meaning and identifying number patterns.
The purpose of the beads was to teach the meaning of Decades, meaning of numbers 100-999, additive and subtractive combinations one and two place carrying and borrowing, multiplication - division - powers - base two, three, four.
This box contains 12 blocks / squares of 100 beads (according to the box, it originally came with 10 plats of hundred beads, so someplace along the line more plats were added to this box)
It contains 10 strips of ten beads (according to the box 20 strips of ten beads should have been in the box, so 10 strips seem to be missing)
It contains 9 individual beads (according to the box 40 individual beads should have been in the box)
The box has a stain (see pictures) it also has a slight tear on one side and is yellowed with some bent edges, but otherwise in tact.
This is super rare vintage item and in spite of searching all over the internet and on eBay I have not been able to find one that is for sale or one that sold.
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