From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication ...

Imagine an equation as a set of scales. The scales will stay in balance as long as the same operation (addition, subtraction, multiplication or division) is applied to both sides.

Efraim Fischbein, Maria Deri, Maria Sainati Nello, Maria Sciolis Marino, The Role of Implicit Models in Solving Verbal Problems in Multiplication and Division, Journal for Research in Mathematics ...

As youngsters, math students are drilled in a particular convention for the “order of operations,” which dictates the order thus: parentheses, exponents, multiplication and division (to be ...