Mathematics · Pedagogy of Mathematics
After teaching the concept of multiplication to her class, a teacher asked her children to multiply 48 by 4. One of her students solved it orally as 'To multiply 48 by 4, we first add 48 to 48, which makes 96 and then add another 96 to reach 192. So, the answer is 192'. What can you say about his / her strategy of multiplication?
- 1The child used a wrong method to multiply. He / She has to use the place value algorithm.
- 2He / She has not understood the concept of multiplication.
- 3The given problem is a multiplication problem and not an addition problem.
- 4He / She understood multiplication as repeated addition.✓
Correct answer
He / She understood multiplication as repeated addition.
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