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Open Word Problems: Taking the Additive or the Multiplicative Road?
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Degrande, Tine; Van Hoof, Jo; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Dooren, Wim – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2018
Previous studies have repeatedly shown that children often incorrectly use an additive model for multiplicative word problems, and a multiplicative model for additive word problems. The present study aimed to investigate which model upper primary school children tend to choose in word problems that are open to "both" ways of reasoning.…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Models, Multiplication