Modelling division: towards a local instructional theory for the teaching of multi-digit division
Neary, Patrick and Nic Mhuirí, SiúnORCID: 0000-0001-5008-5573
(2021)
Modelling division: towards a local instructional theory for the teaching of multi-digit division.
In: Eighth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education in Ireland (MEI 8), 15-16 Oct 2021, Dublin, Ireland (Online).
This paper reports on a teaching experiment in which a hypothetical learning trajectory was
enacted. The aim of this learning trajectory was to support children to develop efficient
strategies for calculating multi-digit division computations in ways that made sense to them.
This paper analyses the strategies that they used and how these changed over the course of
the teaching experiment. Findings indicate that the teaching approach, which emphasised
trialling multiple solution strategies and selecting and justifying computation methods,
allowed children to develop efficient, meaningful solution strategies.
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Kingston, Mary and Grimes, Paul, (eds.)
Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education in Ireland (MEI 8).
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Mathematics Education in Ireland (MEI).