Explicitly Connecting Mathematical Ideas: How Well Is It Done?
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| Title: | Explicitly Connecting Mathematical Ideas: How Well Is It Done? |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Hurst, Chris, Huntley, Ray, Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia |
| Source: | Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia. 2017Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) (40th, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2017). |
| Availability: | Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia. GPO Box 2747, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia. Tel: +61-8-8363-0288; Fax: +61-8-8362-9288; e-mail: sales@merga.net.au; Web site: http://www.merga.net.au/ |
| Peer Reviewed: | N |
| Page Count: | 8 |
| Publication Date: | 2017 |
| Document Type: | Speeches/Meeting Papers Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Elementary Education |
| Descriptors: | Multiplication, Mathematics Skills, Mathematical Logic, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Mental Computation |
| Geographic Terms: | Australia |
| Abstract: | Multiplicative thinking is a critical stage of mathematical understanding upon which many mathematical ideas are built. The myriad aspects of multiplicative thinking and the connections between them need to be explicitly developed. One such connection is the relationship between place value partitioning and the distributive property of multiplication. In this paper, we explore the extent to which students understand partitioning and relate it to the distributive property and whether they understand how the property is used in the standard multiplication algorithm. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Number of References: | 13 |
| Entry Date: | 2018 |
| Accession Number: | ED589450 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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