From the analysis of the student‟s solutions, we see that the reasoning of most of them were the
same (48:6=8 because 6x8=48). Some of them just memorized the multiplication table, and the
others used the „drawing‟ model in the correct way.
During the textbooks analysis, we didn‟t find any problem related with measurement or quotative
problems. Thus we prepared some additional problems to understand how children think and use their
strategy to solve division problems (by grouping). Here is an example