Discussions about the representation of the multiplication table that emerged in continued training with teachers

Abstract

This article is related master's research at the Postgraduate Program in Teaching, Basic Education and Teacher Training (PPGEEDUC), at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) Alegre campus. During the research, a continuing training course in mathematics teaching was carried out with 13 mathematics teachers. During the meetings, the participants reported their students's difficulty in understanding the commutative property of multiplication. In this way, discussions and reflections were provided regarding the representation of the multiplication table. Thus, the objective of this work, with a qualitative approach, it is to present considerations that emerged from these discussions, as well as to think about continued training with teachers. At the end of the analyses, were noted the importance of using the idea of adding equal portions in teaching multiplication tables and the relevance of arithmetic articulation in teaching algebra.