Tzur, RonJohnson, Heather LynnNorton, AndersonDavis, AlanWang, XinFerrara, MichaelHarrington, CodyHodkowski, Nicola Mercedes2021-04-272021-04-272021-03-120737-0008http://hdl.handle.net/10919/103147We examine a hypothesis implied by Steffe's constructivist model of children's numerical reasoning: a child's spontaneous additive strategy may relate to a foundational form of multiplicative reasoning, termed multiplicative double counting (mDC). To this end, we mix quantitative and qualitative analyses of 31 fourth graders' responses during clinical, task-based interviews. All participants spontaneously used one of three additive strategies-counting-on, doubling, or break-apart-make-ten (BAMT)-to correctly solve an addition word problem (8 + 7). We found between-group differences, with asymmetric association of those ordinal variables. We found counting-on to be mainly related to premultiplicative reasoning and BAMT to mDC reasoning. We discuss the theoretical significance and implications of this corroboration of Steffe's model.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 InternationalArticle - Refereedhttps://doi.org/10.1080/07370008.2021.18965211532-690X