Research has shown that preschool children can make sense of multiplication and division situations. However, researchers suggest that sharing is the most intuitive way for young children to solve division problems using manipulatives. Starting from the hypothesis that drawing might be another means by which young children can represent division situations, we conducted a task-based interview with a small group of Australian and Italian 6-year-olds about measurement and partitive division situations. Results indicate that the children could interpret both types of division and their drawings and gestures captured the strategies used. We contend that children’s drawings capture their thinking more effectively than their use of manipulatives.
PRESCHOOL CHILDREN’S REPRESENTATION OF DIVISION WORD PROBLEMS THROUGH DRAWINGS / Ann Downton; Andrea Maffia. - ELETTRONICO. - 2:(2023), pp. 235-242. (Intervento presentato al convegno 46th CONFERENCE of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education tenutosi a Haifa nel 16-21 luglio 2023).
PRESCHOOL CHILDREN’S REPRESENTATION OF DIVISION WORD PROBLEMS THROUGH DRAWINGS
Andrea Maffia
2023
Abstract
Research has shown that preschool children can make sense of multiplication and division situations. However, researchers suggest that sharing is the most intuitive way for young children to solve division problems using manipulatives. Starting from the hypothesis that drawing might be another means by which young children can represent division situations, we conducted a task-based interview with a small group of Australian and Italian 6-year-olds about measurement and partitive division situations. Results indicate that the children could interpret both types of division and their drawings and gestures captured the strategies used. We contend that children’s drawings capture their thinking more effectively than their use of manipulatives.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
