Summary
An overview of Götze and Baiker's 2021 framework on the cognitive components of multiplicative thinking.
Framing Multiplicative Thinking
Highlights
Core Concepts of Multiplicative Thinking
Götze and Baiker (2021) define multiplicative thinking through the process of unitizing. This framework relies on two primary cognitive abilities: the capacity to conceptualize composite units and the employment of decomposition strategies that utilize associative, commutative, and distributive mathematical properties.
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Original text
Götze and Baiker (2021) further framed multiplicative thinking as unitizing and proposed two core concepts: the ability to think in composite units and to use these units through decomposition strategies requiring the application of the associative, commutative, and distributive properties.