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Brandon McMillan – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2025
Mathematical coherence is a goal within the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. One aspect of this coherence is how student mathematical thinking is developed across concepts. Unfortunately, mathematics is often taught as isolated ideas across grades. The multiplicative field is an area of study that needs to be examined as a space to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Thinking Skills, Mathematical Logic, Multiplication
Lei Bao; Max Stephens – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
Research has shown that many primary students experience transition barriers between additive and multiplicative thinking. This paper analysed responses from 253 Years 3 to 6 students to a diagnostic assessment which consists of whole number multiplication and division problems involving equal groups, arrays, multiplicative comparison and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Instruction
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Tracey Hopkins; Judith Mills – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2024
When teaching the multiplicative domain in New Zealand primary schools, teachers tend to spend a greater proportion of time on the meaning and processes of multiplication, to the detriment of a specific focus on understanding the concept of division. When division is taught, it tends to be by reversing the context and turning the division…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Division, Multiplication, Mathematics Instruction
Amelia M. Farid – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Mathematical definitions are central to learning and doing mathematics. Research has uncovered significant differences between how mathematicians and non-mathematicians construct, reason about, and refine mathematical definitions. Various strands of research provide insight into the development of definitional practices, yet an integrated approach…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Definitions, College Mathematics, Humanities
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Nicholas Shaver; Anna DeJarnette – The Mathematics Educator, 2024
This study was guided by the question, how do we understand the multiplicative reasoning of upper high school students and use that to give insight to their performance on a standardized test? After administering a partial ACT assessment to a class of high school students, we identified students to make comparisons between low and high scoring…
Descriptors: High School Students, Mathematical Logic, Standardized Tests, Scores
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Güven Akdeniz, Dilsad; Yakici Topbas, Esra Selcen; Argün, Ziya – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2022
The aim in the current study is to examine the conceptualizations of zero in arithmetic operations among students with learning disabilities (LD) and no learning disabilities (N-LD). The similarities and differences in the understandings of students with LD and N-LD of zero in arithmetical operations will be discussed. The study is a multiple case…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Arithmetic, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities
Booysen, Tammy; Westaway, Lise – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2022
Early years mathematics textbooks are support material for teachers and learners as they contain visual representations which communicate and clarify mathematical concepts. In this paper, we report on the types and functions of visual representations of multiplication and division in South African early years mathematics textbooks. There seems to…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Multiplication, Division, Mathematical Concepts
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Melhuish, Kathleen; Czocher, Jennifer A. – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2020
Within a study of student reasoning in abstract algebra, we encountered the claim "division and multiplication are the same operation." What might prompt a student to make this claim? What kind of influence might believing it have on their mathematical development? We explored the philosophical roots of "sameness" claims to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Algebra, Multiplication
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Erik Jacobson – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2024
This study used units coordination as a theoretical lens to investigate how whole number and fraction reasoning may be related for preservice teachers at the conclusion of a math methods class. The study contributes quantitative evidence that units coordination provides a common foundation for both mathematical knowledge for teaching whole number…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Methods Courses
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Schiller, Lauren K.; Fan, Ao; Siegler, Robert S. – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2022
The number one plays a special role in mathematics because it is the identity element in multiplication and division. The present findings, however, indicate that many middle school students do not demonstrate mathematical flexibility representing one as a fraction. Despite possessing explicit knowledge of fraction forms of one (e.g., 95% of…
Descriptors: Numbers, Mathematics Instruction, Multiplication, Division
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Joung, Eunmi; Lin, Cheng-Yao; Kim, Young Rae – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2021
The purpose of this study is to explore preservice teachers' (PTs') ability to implement multiple strategies using standard algorithms and alternative strategies and to investigate their conceptual knowledge of decimal operations. There were 37 PTs who participated in this study, all of whom attended a mathematics course in the K-8 Teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Education Programs
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Yorulmaz, Alper; Uysal, Hümeyra; Sidekli, Sabri – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2021
The aim of the study was to determine the concepts that primary school fourth-grade students reveal with their mind maps related to four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) and to compare the mind map and achievement test scores. In the study, a mixed method was used in which quantitative and qualitative data were…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Concept Formation, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Achievement
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Yavuzsoy Kose, Nilufer; Kiziltoprak, Ayhan – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Purpose: Since there are a limited number of studies on how to develop relational thinking in secondary school students in mathematics education literature, this study will contribute to the field both in theoretical terms and concerning the implications for in-class applications. In this respect, this study aims to examine how to develop the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Video Technology
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
In this set of tips, parents and caregivers will learn how to: (1) support children's understanding of fractions at home with activities on dividing objects (recommended for grades K-5); (2) support children's understanding of fractions at home with measurement activities (recommended for grades K-4); (3) support children's understanding of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Fractions, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
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Hurst, Chris; Hurrell, Derek – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2020
Multiplicative thinking is widely accepted as a critically important 'big idea' of mathematics that underpins much mathematical understanding beyond the primary years. It is therefore important to ensure not only that children can think multiplicatively, but that they can do so at a conceptual rather than procedural level. This paper reports on a…
Descriptors: Multiplication, Thinking Skills, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Students
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