We investigate thirty-three second and fifth-grade students' solution strategies on integer
addition problems before and after analyzing contrasting cases with integer addition and …

In this study the mental multiplication ability of primary school children and the difficulty
structure of all single digit and 469 multidigit multiplication problems, each solved tens of …

The two misconceptions" multiplication makes bigger" and" division makes smaller" are
troublesome when rational numbers are involved. To counteract, teachers must develop and …

The inadequate choice of operations and misleading interpretations of operations are major
obstacles for students to mathematize and solve word problems successfully. Based on …

Multiplicative thinking underpins much of the mathematics learned beyond the middle
primary years. As such, it needs to be understood conceptually to highlight the connections …

This paper is part of a larger study focuses on a teaching experiment (pre-test, instruction,
post-test) that aims to analyse primary school students' features on the transition from natural …

METHOD The entire grade seven cohort of 41 students was given a pretest on the following
topics containing decimal numbers: Writing adecimal between two given numbers with or …

Abstract The Numeracy Intervention Research Project (NIRP) aims to develop assessment
and instructional tools for use with low-attaining 3rd-and 4th-graders. The NIRP approach to …

Discusses an exploratory study that examines student interpretation of remainders in
division as applied to word problems in a restrictive school setting and in a real-world, out-of …

Children's solutions to a variety of multiplication and division word problems were analysed
in a cross-sectional pilot study of 34 children from Grades K to 2. Responses indicated a …