KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Praxis and Practice Architectures in Mathematics Education – Stephen Kemmis
Stars, Compass, and GPS: Navigating Currents and Charting Directions for Mathematics Education Research on Gender Issues – Helen Forgasz
PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS AWARD
Facilitating Communities of Mathematical Inquiry – Roberta Hunter
SYMPOSIA
The Role of Information Graphics in Mathematical Proficiency – Carmel Diezmann and Tom Lowrie
Graphics and the National Numeracy Tests – Carmel Diezmann
A Longitudinal Study of Student Performance on Items Rich in Graphics – Tom Lowrie
Standardised Assessment in Mathematics: The Tale of Two Items – Tracy Logan and Jane Greenlees
The Construction of Knowledge: Theoretical Approaches – Tommy Dreyfus, Michael O. J. Thomas, Jill P. Brown and Gaye Williams
RESEARCH PAPERS
Assessing Primary Preservice Teachers’ Mathematical Competence – Karoline Afamasaga-Fuata’i, Paul Meyer and Naomi Falo
Teachers’ Motivation to Attend Voluntary Professional Development in K-10 Mathematics – Judy Anderson
Using National Numeracy Testing to Benefit Indigenous Students: Case Studies of Teachers Taking Back Control of Outcomes – Annette R. Baturo, Tom J. Cooper, Matthew T. Michaelson and Jessica Stevenson
Recollections of Mathematics Education: Approaching Graduation and 5 Years Later – Kim Beswick and Shelley Dole
Using Paper-Folding in the Primary Years to Promote Student Engagement in Mathematical Learning – Kathy Brady
The Case of Mathematical Proof in Lower Secondary School: Knowledge and Competencies of Pre-service Teachers – Jill Brown, Gloria Stillman, Björn Schwarz and Gabriele Kaiser
Employing Mathematical Modelling to Respond to Indigenous Students’ Needs for Contextualised Mathematics Experiences – Kelli Brown
Reconceptualising Agency Through Teachers Talking About a Sociocultural Approach to Teaching Mathematics in the Classroom – Raymond Brown and Trevor Redmond
Middle School Students’ Interest in Statistical Literacy – Colin Carmichael and Ian Hay
One Secondary Teacher’s Use of Problem-Solving Teaching Approaches – Michael Cavanagh
Does Student Success Motivate Teachers to Sustain Reform-Oriented Pedagogy? – Linda Cheeseman
Year Five Students Solving Mental and Written Problems: What Are They Thinking? – Julie Clark
Mathematics for Engineering Education: What Students Say – Mary Coupland, Anne Gardner and Georgina Carmody
Advancing Research Into Affective Factors in Mathematics Learning: Clarifying Key Factors, Terminology and Measurement – Patricia C. Cretchley
Explorations of Early Childhood – New Entrant Transition in Mathematics – Ngaire M. Davies and Karen Walker
Eliciting Growth in Teachers’ Proportional Reasoning: Measuring the Impact of a Professional Development Program – Shelley Dole, Doug Clarke, Tony Wright, Geoff Hilton and Anne Roche
Links Between Children’s Understanding of Multiplication and Solution Strategies for Division – Ann Downton
Intervention Instruction in Structuring Numbers 1 to 20: The Case of Nate – David Ellemor-Collins and Robert (Bob) Wright
Interdisciplinary Problem Solving: A Focus on Engineering Experiences – Lyn D. English
Addressing Verbal Memory Weaknesses to Assist Students with Mathematical Learning Difficulties – Maureen Finnane
Validation of an Assessment Instrument Developed for Eliciting Student Prior Learning in Graphing and Data Analysis – Noleine Fitzallen
Using Valsiner – Linda Galligan
CAS Enabled Devices as Provocative Agents in the Process of Mathematical Modelling – Vince Geiger, Rhonda Faragher, Trevor Redmond and Jim Lowe
Researcher-Teacher Relationships in Mathematics Education – Merrilyn Goos
Towards a Sociocultural Framework for Understanding the Work of Mathematics Teacher-Educator-Researchers – Merrilyn Goos
Identity as a Lens to Understand Learning Mathematics: Developing a Model – Peter Grootenboer and Robyn Zevenbergen
Capturing Students’ Thinking about Strategies used to Solve Mental Computations by Giving Students Access to a Pedagogical Framework – Judy Hartnett
A Review of Recent Research in Early Mathematics Learning and Technology – Kate Highfield and Kristy Goodwin
The Development of Students’ Use of Justification Strategies – Jodie Hunter and Glenda Anthony
Using Task-Based Interviews to Assess Mathematical Thinking of Primary School Students – Chris Hurst
Who a Student Sits Near to in Maths: Tension between Social and Mathematical Identities – Naomi Ingram
Social Constructivism in the Classroom: From A Community of Learners to A Community of Teachers – Jane Irvin
Primary Teachers’ Beliefs About the Use of Mathematics Textbooks – Romina Jamieson-Proctor and Carmen Byrne
Abstraction in Context, Combining Constructions, Justification and Enlightenment – Ivy Kidron and Tommy Dreyfus
How Humanism Can Foster Mediocrity in Early Years Mathematics Education: A Poststructuralist Comparison – Mary Klein
Preservice Teachers and Numeracy Education: Can Poststructuralism Contribute? – Mary Klein
High Achievers in Mathematics: What Can We Learn From and About Them? – Gilah Leder
The 2007 Common Technology Free Examination for Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) Mathematical Methods and Mathematical Methods Computer Algebra System (CAS) – David Leigh-Lancaster, Pam Norton, Peter Jones, Magdalena Les, Michael Evans and Margaret Wu
Focusing Year 8 Students on Self-Regulating their Learning of Mathematics – Andrea McDonough and Peter Sullivan
Feedback About Professional Growth for Teachers of Mathematics: A Developmental Perspective – Greg McPhan, John Pegg and Stefan Horarik
Fraction Number Line Tasks and the Additivity Concept of Length Measurement – Annie Mitchell and Marj Horne
“Zero is Not a Number”: Teachable Moments and their Role in Effective Teaching of Numeracy – Tracey Muir
Students’ Attitude Towards Using Materials to Learn Algebra: A Year 7 Case Study – Stephen Norton and Will Windsor
Teaching Mathematics and Technology through Design Practice – Stephen Norton and Tom J Cooper
Engaging Mathematics Teachers in Professional Learning by Reflecting on their Pedagogical Practice – Richard O’Donovan
Primary Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Knowledge and Understanding of Measurement – Michelle O’Keefe and Janette Bobis
Use of the Internet for Teacher Professional Development and for Teaching Mathematics: Supports and Inhibitors – Sitti Maesuri Patahuddin
A Situated Perspective on Learning to Teach Secondary Mathematics – Anne Prescott and Michael Cavanagh
The Hospital Problem Revisited. Tertiary Student’s Perceptions of a Problem Involving the Binomial Distribution – Robyn Reaburn
The Identification of Partially Correct Constructs – Gila Ron, Rina Hershkowitz and Tommy Dreyfus
Making Connections: Promoting Connectedness in Early Mathematics Education – Abigail Sawyer
Engagement versus Deep Mathematical Understanding: An Early Career Teacher’s Use of ICT in a Lesson – Anne Scott, Ann Downton, Donna Gronn and Adam Staples
Investigating a Phase Approach to Using Technology as a Teaching Tool – Penelope Serow
The Introduction of Interactive Whiteboard Technology in the Primary Mathematics Classroom: Three Case Studies – Penelope Serow and Rosemary Callingham
School Readiness: What Do Teachers Expect of Children in Mathematics on School Entry? – Brenda Sherley and Megan Clark
Gaining Insight into Alice’s Pedagogy with Respect to Five Dimensions of Numeracy – Jane Skalicky
Modes of Reasoning in Explanations in Year 8 Textbooks – Kaye Stacey and Jill Vincent
What Does Three-quarters Look Like? Students’ Representations of Three-quarters – Vicki Steinle and Beth Price
Some Key Junctures in Relational Thinking – Max Stephens
Chinese Young Children’s Strategies on Basic Addition Facts – Huayu Sun
Self-Efficacy in Mathematics: Affective, Cognitive, and Conative Domains of Functioning – S. L. Tait–McCutcheon
Neuropsychological Evidence for the Role of Graphical and Algebraic Representations in Understanding Function – Michael O. J. Thomas, Anna J. Wilson, Michael C. Corballis and Vanessa K. Lim
Speaking with Different Voices: Knowledge Legitimation Codes of Mathematicians and Mathematics Educators – Steve Thornton
Recognising Different Starting Points in Aboriginal Students’ Learning of Number – Kaye Treacy and Sandra Frid
Deepening the Mathematical Knowledge of Secondary Mathematics Teachers who Lack Tertiary Mathematics Qualifications – Colleen Vale and Alasdair McAndrew
Indigenous Students’ Early Engagement with Numeracy: The Case of Widgy and Caddy – Elizabeth Warren, Janelle Young and Eva De Vries
Building Informal Inference in Grade 7 – Jane Watson and Julie Donne
Proportional Reasoning: Student Knowledge and Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge – Jane Watson, Rosemary Callingham and Julie Donne
Counting On 2007: A Program for Middle Years Students who have Experienced Difficulty with Mathematics – Allan White
How Group Composition Can Influence Opportunities for Spontaneous Learning – Gaye Williams
Success and Consistency in the Use of Heuristics to Solve Mathematics Problems – Khoon Yoong Wong
Fractions as a Measure – Monica Wong and David Evans
Mixing Colours: An ICT Tool Based on a Semiotic Framework for Mathematical Meaning-Making about Ratio and Fractions – Andy Yeh and Rod Nason
Secondary School Students Investigating Mathematics – Joseph Yeo
Teaching Area and Perimeter: Mathematics-Pedagogical-Content Knowledge-in-Action – Kai Kow Joseph Yeo
Problem Solving Activities in a Constructivist Framework: Exploring how Students Approach Difficult Problems – Oleksiy Yevdokimov and Tim Passmore
Creating Equitable Practice in Diverse Classrooms: Developing a Tool to Evaluate Pedagogy – Robyn Zevenbergen, Richard Niesche, Peter Grootenboer and Jo Boaler
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Achieving Computational Fluency in Multi-Digit Multiplication and Division – Kristen Tripet
Coaching and Mentoring Numeracy Lead Teachers to Improve Student Learning: The Journey of Two Year Seven and Eight Teachers – Judith Mills
Connecting the Points: Students Learning Decimal Place Value – Bruce Moody and Jenny Young-Loveridge
Errors Made by Student Teachers when Writing Test Items – Jaguthsing Dindyal
Financial Modelling with Matlab – Peter Watson and Jiling Cao
Improving Language for Problem Solving – Benedicte Esterman
Insights from Pre-service Secondary Mathematics Teachers on their Practicum Experience – Jaguthsing Dindyal
Motivation and Engagement in Mathematics: The Transition from Primary to Secondary School – Karen Skilling
Reflections on Exponential Functions – Sandra Herbert and Farhang Afshar
Scaffolding Students’ Understanding of Geometric Properties Using Dynamic Geometry Software – Sahar Bokosmaty
The Next Big Teaching Resource: Interactive White Boards But Where is the Research? – Philip C Clarkson
The Role of Mathematics Competitions – Brenda Bicknell
The Role of Pattern and Structure in Early Mathematics Learning: An Evaluation Study in the First Year of Formal Schooling – Joanne Mulligan, Lyn English and Mike Mitchelmore
ROUND TABLES
MERGA: Including the X and Y in Mathematics Education Research – Peter Grootenboer and Naomi Ingram
Moving Beyond the Script: Addressing Numeracy Needs of Low Achieving Students through Quality Professional Development – Moira Blair and Anuja Singh
Student Achievement in Mathematics: Learning through Home School Partnership – Honor Ronowicz and Gaynor Terrill