The critical stage in children’s understanding of the mathematical rational number and mental and written computation strategies and ‘big ideas’ to reconceptualise their thinking in what is involved in multiplication and division to comprehend the ‘multiplicative situation. (Hurst., 2015).It is important students construct and coordinate the three aspects of multiplicative situations when they are developing multiplicative thinking which is the number of equal groups, the number in each group, and the total amount (Hurst, 2015). When each aspect is abstracted and can be comprehended as a mental object, multiplicative thinking begins to develop. For example, the modelled of equal groups is abstracted when the children can trust the count and
