2008 Conference Proceedings

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