Meanings Expressed by Primary Schoolchildren When Solving a Partitioning Task Castro Rodríguez, Elena Ferreira, Marisel Montoro Medina, Ana Belén Ruiz Hidalgo, Juan Francisco Partitioning Distribution Semantic triangle Primary education Representation Strategies This research was funding from Junta de Andalucia Research Group FQM-193 on numerical and algebraic thinking. This study entailed an in-depth exploration of the meanings identified by a group of 105 fourth year primary schoolchildren when solving a task involving partitioning. The research was based on a semantic triangle consisting of a conceptual structure, representation systems, and sense. The content of children’s answers was analysed qualitatively. One of the most prominent findings was that purposes or usages were recognised based on multiple strategies, new categories of which, not envisaged in earlier research, were defined. Most of the students deployed graphic, verbal, and numerical representation and established relationships among them. Concepts such as the part-whole relationship and fractioning appeared in their description of conceptual structure, although errors were detected in terms of inequities and confusion between numerator and denominator. 2022-05-10T08:45:47Z 2022-05-10T08:45:47Z 2022-04-18 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Castro-Rodríguez, E... [et al.]. Meanings Expressed by Primary Schoolchildren When Solving a Partitioning Task. Mathematics 2022, 10, 1339. [https://doi.org/10.3390/math10081339] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/74778 10.3390/math10081339 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España MDPI