You Are Assessing the Strategies Used to Solve Arithmetic Problems

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