My post is about arithmetic and defining operations.
Philosophy is down the hall and politics is in building B.
I have defined multiplication for the rationals as mk = the combination of m either added to or subtracted from zero k times ie multiplication is the combination of a multiplicand either added to or subtracted from zero as many times as there are unities in the multiplier.
Scaling can give you the same numeric answer as multiplication, yet that does not make the operations the same.
The symbol is : and it results in a change of magnitude not change of magnitude not multitude. Toy planes, trains and automobiles are scaled as you know. Therefore the concept is already familiar to children. already familiar to children
My definition of mathematical scaling is 'a change of magnitude created by making the multiplier the unit of measure.
Multiplication involves many nstances of the same object in units or parts and relates to multi-tude.