Conference paper
Recognising the difference between additive and multiplicative thinking in young children
MERGA Inc.
24th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (University of Sydney, N.S.W., 30/06/2001–04/07/2001)
2001
Abstract
Multiplicative thinking cannot be generalised in any simple way from additive thinking. A premise of this paper is that teachers need to recognise the difference between additive and multiplicative thinking if they are to help children develop the latter. This paper describes an empirical study that investigated the potential of a set of tasks to distinguish between additive and multiplicative thinkers, and illustrates the results through the responses of two children.
Details
- Title
- Recognising the difference between additive and multiplicative thinking in young children
- Authors/Creators
- L. Jacob (Author/Creator)S. Willis (Author/Creator)
- Conference
- 24th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (University of Sydney, N.S.W., 30/06/2001–04/07/2001)
- Publisher
- MERGA Inc.
- Identifiers
- 991005540091707891
- Copyright
- 2001 MERGA
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
- Note
- Appears In: Numeracy and beyond: proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
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