Children have more dificulties with division than with other arithmetic operatios. One of the causes could be a dual nature of division, which comprehends partition and quotition as models of division. The study investigates the problem of predominance of a division model in different age groups...
Table1DivisionbyPartitionandMeasurement TraditionalQuestionNameofApproachExample a÷bisinterpretedtomean: “Fromtheaobjects,how manygroupsofbobjectscan weform?” “Measurement” (sometimesreferred toas“quotition”) 12dividedby3equals 4becausethe12canbe dividedinto4lotswith 3objectsineach. a÷bisinterpretedto...