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- Title
Understanding children’s reasoning in multiplication problem-solving.
- Authors
Lu, Lianfang; Richardson, Kerri
- Abstract
This article investigates two children’s intuitive thinking in solving multiplication problems from different educational backgrounds. One of the children is in a southern elementary school in the US. He was given the same problems both in first and second grades. The other child was a first grader in a southwest region of China, and she was given the same problems. The findings reveal a variety of intuitive thinking in solving the multiplication problems through addition beyond direct modeling and counting strategies. The authors also discussed how different educational backgrounds in early elementary mathematics education may affect children’s intuitive ideas and reasoning in solving multiplication problems. The study implies the importance of understanding children’s intuitive ideas of multiplication and highlights potential opportunities for developing children’s understanding of multiplicative thinking and algebraic thinking in earlier stages of arithmetic learning.
- Subjects
REASONING in children; MULTIPLICATION; PROBLEM solving
- Publication
Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2018, Vol 10, Issue 4, p240
- ISSN
1947-7503
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1080/19477503.2017.1414985