Lirika, is a primary school teacher at “Mileniumi i Tretë”, which was listed by an external evaluation as
achieving the best results in mathematics, compared to other schools within the same municipality.
This evaluation was carried out in all fifth grade10 classes. The evaluation also concluded that there
are still some obstacles related to the application of multiplication and division operations by students.
Lirika was concerned with these results and had her dilemmas: Should multiplication and division be
taught separately and does memorizing the table of multiplication help children understand division
concepts? Are the examples in the textbook related with different division situations? Is it possible for
students to understand the division concepts only as the inverse of multiplication? How can I better
teach these concepts? Thus, Lirika carefully analyzed the existing curriculum and relevant practices in
other countries, including the literature related to math teaching at primary education levels.