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Schmidt, Siegbert; Weiser, Werner – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1995
Proposes a four-category classification of semantic structures of one-step word problems involving multiplication and division: forming the n-th multiple of measures, combinatorial multiplication, composition of operators, and multiplication by formula. This classification is compatible with semantic structures of addition and subtraction word…
Descriptors: Addition, Classification, Division, Elementary Education