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Direct linkCheeseman, 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
Download full textCheeseman, Jill; Downton, Ann; Roche, Anne; Ferguson, Sarah – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2021
In the context of a multiplicative problem, our study investigated young children's ability to visualise and draw equal groups. This paper reports the results obtained from 18 Australian children in their first year of school (age 5-6 years). The task "12 Little Ducks," taught by their classroom teacher, provoked children to visualise…
Descriptors: Multiplication, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Students
Livy, Sharyn; Muir, Tracey; Downton, Ann – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2017
One of the challenges facing teacher educators is providing our pre-service teachers (PSTs) with authentic experiences that cross the boundaries between Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and the classroom. An additional challenge facing the mathematics teacher educator, is addressing and deepening PSTs' mathematical content knowledge (MCK), which…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Educators, Preservice Teacher Education
