“He’s so fast at drawing” – Children’s use of drawings as a tool to solve word problems in multiplication and division
Résumé
This paper examines how young pupils (age 8–9) use drawings as a tool in exploring multiplicative situations. Analysis shows that drawings play an important role in their problem-solving process. Drawings are mainly used as information holders and as a tool to organise calculations for problems with a relatively easy structure; in problems with a more complex structure, drawings are more frequently used as a tool for reasoning. The results show no connection between the degree of abstraction in the drawing and the sophistication of the calculation strategy.
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