Case 2
Here the teacher prepared the supplement worksheet, with three word problems. The reason was: did
the students know to relate the „situations‟ with multiplication? In this context, students were required
to solve the three problems related to daily life and afterwards we analyzed their solutions and
reasoning. Below we present one of the analyzed problems.
It is shown in the Figure 1, that a student has used a drawing to solve the problem: On the table
there are 5 plates with 7 biscuits each. How many biscuits are altogether? A student explaining his
correct answer based in his „drawing‟.