In the examples cited, these children may have displayed their reasoning capability when they compared and contrasted the size of the counters with the given shapes and gave an appropriate estimate using the measurement referent or visual logical reasoning (Barbosa, Palhares, & Vale, 2007). The illustrations provided suggest alack of certainty in the teachers minds as to distinctions between reasoning and problem solving. Confounding these terms is consistent with teachers' limited us of reasoning verbs (Clarke et al., 2012).