Links Between Children’s Understanding of Multiplication and Solution Strategies For Division

This paper reports on strategies 26 Year 3 students used to solve a range of division word problems in a one-to-one interview, following the participation of half of the group in a teaching experiment. The focus here is on the strategies used by case study students to solve equivalent groups and times as many division tasks. Results suggest that young children are capable of solving complex division problems given experience with a range of semantic structures for multiplication and division. Studies on children’s solutions to multiplication and division problems indicate that children as young as kindergarten age can solve a variety of problems by combining direct modelling with counting and groupin