This paper explores Year 3 Irish students' problem-solving strategies when responding to a skyscraper growing pattern problem. Students' strategies reveal their understandings of multiplicative thinking, pattern, and algebraic reasoning. The version of the growing pattern lesson was that a 'teaching through problem solving' approach was taken,…

This paper investigates the impact of social interactions on mathematical language development in children during cooperative learning in a fourth grade mathematics classroom in Ireland. An experimental group completed mathematics activities in cooperative groups, while the control group completed these tasks individually. Participants from both…