You Are Assessing the Strategies Used to Solve Arithmetic Problems

question 28

Multiple Choice

You are assessing the strategies used to solve arithmetic problems by a group of Grade 1 students.One of the children consistently uses strategies such as decomposition and fact retrieval.Is this child's behaviour unusual?

• A) no, if the child was raised in Canada
• B) yes, regardless of the culture of origin
• C) no, if the child was raised in an Asian culture
• D) no, regardless of the culture of origin

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