Situated multiplying in primary school: counting instead of adding !
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Situated multiplying in primary school : counting instead of adding ! / Ruwisch, Silke.
Developments in Mathematics Education in German-speaking Countries: Selected Papers from the Annual Conference on Didactics of Mathematics, Bern, 1999. ed. / Hans-Georg Weigand; Neville Neill; Andrea Peter-Koop; Kristina Reiss; Günter Törner; Bernd Wollring. Verlag Franzbecker, 2002. p. 67-75.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Situated multiplying in primary school
AU - Ruwisch, Silke
N1 - Conference code: 33
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - The paper describes an empirical investigation about the arithmetical strategies of primary school children dealing with mutiplicative real-world situations. We constructed three multiplicative settings, similar to each other in their arithmetical structure but different in the situational contexts. 66 second-graders - age 7 to 8 - and 56 third-graders - age 8 to 9 - solved in pairs of two of these problems. The results show that children did not use addition as their main strategy but preferred counting and number patterns. Several hypothesis are discussed explaining these results. The conclusions drawn depend on the preferred hypothesis.
AB - The paper describes an empirical investigation about the arithmetical strategies of primary school children dealing with mutiplicative real-world situations. We constructed three multiplicative settings, similar to each other in their arithmetical structure but different in the situational contexts. 66 second-graders - age 7 to 8 - and 56 third-graders - age 8 to 9 - solved in pairs of two of these problems. The results show that children did not use addition as their main strategy but preferred counting and number patterns. Several hypothesis are discussed explaining these results. The conclusions drawn depend on the preferred hypothesis.
KW - Didactics of Mathematics
KW - Mathematikunterricht
KW - Grundschule
KW - Grundrechenart
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
SN - 3-88120-328-1
SP - 67
EP - 75
BT - Developments in Mathematics Education in German-speaking Countries
A2 - Weigand, Hans-Georg
A2 - Neill, Neville
A2 - Peter-Koop, Andrea
A2 - Reiss, Kristina
A2 - Törner, Günter
A2 - Wollring, Bernd
PB - Verlag Franzbecker
Y2 - 1 March 1999 through 5 March 1999
ER -