Research Related to Early Teaching and Learning of Multiplication and Division
Several researchers have studied how young students multiply and divide. Nunes and Bryant (1996) indicated that a general point of view about multiplication and division is that they simply “are inverse arithmetical operations ... that are taught after addition and subtraction” (p. 144). However, they stress that such a viewpoint is incomplete knowing the fact that “multiplication and division represent a significant qualitative change in children‟s thinking” (p. 144).