Strategies for Mastering the Concept of Multiplication Operations among Primary School: A Systematic Literature Review

Mastery of basic concepts in a mathematics is the backbone of students' understanding of any mathematics’s topic. For example, a failure to master multiplication operation skills will lead to students’ difficulty to learn multiplication operations. This study aimed to identify learning strategies for helping year five students to master the concept of multiplication operation skills. The study emplyed systematic literature review approach that used on journal articles from Google Scholar and ERIC databases published between 2018 and 2022. The results of this study showed that digital gaming activities are the most dominant strategies employed by teachers for teaching multiplication concepts at primary schools. In line with the huge and freely available online aplication in internet, this strategies are becoming a choice for teachers to engage children in mathematics learning activities because the strategies could increase students’ motivation and understanding of multiplication of basic concepts.