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Jacob, Lorraine; Mulligan, Joanne – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2014
In this article, Lorraine Jacob and Joanne Mulligan discuss how arrays can be used to promote students' early learning in relation to multiplication and division. They provide examples of activities that can be used from Foundation to Year 5.
Descriptors: Young Children, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
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Treacy, Kaye; Frid, Sandra; Jacob, Lorraine – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2015
This research was designed to investigate the conceptualisations and thinking strategies Indigenous Australian students use in counting tasks. Eighteen Aboriginal students, in years 1 to 11 at a remote community school, were interviewed using standard counting tasks and a "counting" task that involved fetching "maku" (witchetty…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Numbers, World Views, Computation