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Cheeseman, Jill; Downton, Ann; Ferguson, Sarah; Roche, Anne – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2023
Children's multiplicative thinking as the recognition of equal group structures and the enumeration of the composite units was the subject of this research. In this paper, we provide an overview of the Multiplication and Division Investigations project. The results were obtained from a small sample of Australian children (n = 21) in their first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multiplication, Thinking Skills, Arithmetic
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Roche, Anne; Ferguson, Sarah; Cheeseman, Jill; Downton, Ann – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2020
Multiplication and division are complex constructs for young children to understand. In this article, the authors explore young children's ability to visualise and make groups of objects before they had formally been introduced to multiplication and division. The results provide some valuable insights into students' early understandings of…
Descriptors: Visualization, Multiplication, Division, Young Children