Conference Proceedings 1994


 

Title
Challenges in Mathematics Education: Constraints on Construction
Challenges in Mathematics Education: Constraints on Construction
Editors: Garry Bell, Bob Wright, Neville Leeson, John Geake
 
Content
 
Preface
 
List of Reviewers
Reviewers of 1994 Proceedings
 
Keynote Address
Challenges and Constraints for Constructing Curriculum
Kaye Stacey
Radical Constructivism versus Piaget's Operational Constructivism in Mathematics Education
Woo, Jeong-Ho
Research in Mathematics Education - Constraints on Construction?
Gilah C. Leder
 
Practical Implication Award
 
Symposium
 
Research Paper
THE ROLE OF LEARNING STRATEGIES IN MATHEMATICS: A CASE STUDY OF FAILURE TO LEARN.
Glenda Anthony
STUDENTS' UNDERSTANDINGS OF PICTOGRAPHS AND BAR GRAPHS
GARY ASP, JOHN DOWSEY AND HILARY HOLLINGSWORTH
REPRESENTATIONS AND STRATEGIES IN LINEAR EQUATION SOLUTIONS TAUGHT WITH CONCRETE MATERIALS
B Atweh, GM Boulton-Lewis and TJ Cooper
The Implementation of Calculators in Secondary Schools
Bill Barton, Mathematics Education Unit, with John Bullock, Anne Buzeika, Jill Eills, AIan Graham, Matt Regan
MAKING QUALITY COUNT
A J C Begg
Constraints on the Intended Curriculum in Australia and Korea
Garry Bell & Kang Ok-Ki
PREDICTIONS OF GENDER DIFFERENCES IN PERFORMANCES OF YEARS 5 AND 6 CHILDREN ON PENCIL-AND-PAPER MATHEMATICS ITEMS
FRED BISHOP & M. A. (KEN) CLEMENTS
Institutional and pedagogical support for mathematics teachers working with NESB students
Alan J. Bishop and Chris Larkin
TEACHER EDUCATION: A WATERSHED FOR PRESERVICE TEACHERS' ATTITUDES TOWARD MATHEMATICS
Janette Bobis and Robyn Cusworth
GRAPHICS CALCULATORS IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS TEACHING
Sandra Britton
Teachers' Cognitive Functioning in the Context of Questions Using the Arithmetic Mean
Rosemary A. Callingham
WHY DO SOME PRIMARY TEACHER TRAINEES HATE MATHS? A CASE STUDY
.Jean Carroll
Use of Geometry Knowledge During Problem Solving: The Instructional Effect of Two Strategies
Mohan Chinnappan & Michael Lawson
RECONCEPTUALISING TEACHER CHANGE
DAVID CLARKE, HILLARY HOLLINGSWORTH
THE CONSEQUENCES OF IMPLEMENTING AN INCLUSIVE MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM
DAVID CLARKE, WlLL MORONY, & BARRY SCHMITT
PROBLEM SOLVING IN TWO LANGUAGES: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF BILINGUAL STUDENTS IN MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY
PHILLIP CLARKSON & LLOYD DAWE
TERTIARY STUDENTS' UNDERSTANDING OF SECOND ORDER RELATIONSHIPS IN FUNCTION NOTATION
Carmel Coady & John Pegg
VOICES IN THE DARK: MAKING SENSE OF TALK IN MATHEMATICS CLASSES
Gary Ernest DAVIS, Arthur JONES, & Catherine PEARN
THE USE OF GEOMETRIC DIAGRAMS IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL
CARMEL DIEZMANN
Building Bridges Out Of Walls - Mathematics Education and Technology Education
ROGER EDWARDS
REASONING BY ANALOGY IN CONSTRUCTING MATHEMATICAL IDEAS
Lyn D. English
THE INTERACTION BETWEEN GENERAL REASONING PROCESSES AND ACHIEVEMENT IN ALGEBRA AND NOVEL PROBLEM SOLVING
Lyn English & Elizabeth Warren
TAFE STUDENTS: THE AFFECTIVE DOMAIN AND MATHEMATICS
Gail E. FitzSimons
Teaching Thinking Through Constructing Mathematical Knowledge
Ho-Kheong Fong
Levels of Attainment in Number for Pupil Performance Profile in the Primary School
Foong Pui Yee
AFFECTIVE BELIEFS AND RELATED BEHAVIOURS IN THE MATHEMATICS CLASSROOM: A CASE STUDY OF A GROUP OF FOUR STUDENTS
Helen J. Forgasz
Negotiation of Meaning in Mathematics Classrooms: A Study of Two Year 5 Classes
Sandra Frid
PERSONAL RECONSTRUCTION OF CONCEPT DEFINITIONS: LIMITS
GRACE FURINA
TRANSFER OF ABSTRACT THINKING IN MATHEMATICS
Lupe M.T. Gates
Recognition of Effective Group Discussion
Anne Gooding
COLLABORATION, DIALOGUE AND METACOGNITION: THE MATHEMATICS CLASSROOM AS A "COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE"
Merrilyn Goos, Peter Galbraith & Peter Renshaw
The situatedness of adults' numerical understandings
Stacey Grier
Are Textbooks Sinful?
K.M. Hart
BECOMING MORE POSITIVE WITH NEGATIVES
Bob Hayes
Learning to co-operate: Small group interaction in New Zealand elementary mathematics classrooms
Joanna Higgins
The use of a spreadsheet as an algebraic environment
Marj Horne
MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL TEACHER
KATHRYN C. IRWIN & MURRAY S. BRITT
AN INVESTIGATION INTO KNOWLEDGE BASES OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MATHEMATICS TEACHERS: REPORT ON A PILOT STUDY
Clive Kanes and Steven Nisbet
"CONSTRUCTIVlST" PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE IN PRE-SERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION - THE CONSTRAINTS OF CONSTRUCTION
Mary Klein
IDENTIFICATION OF STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATED WITH ATTEMPTS AT SOLVING DEDUCTIVE PROBLEMS IN GEOMETRY
Christine Lawrie
PROGRESS IN LEARNING ALGEBRA: TEMPORARY AND PERSISTENT DIFFICULTIES
Mollie MacGregor & Kaye Stacey
TYPES OF MATHEMATICIANS
Coralie Marshall
MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICS TEACHING: CHANGES IN PRE-SERVICE STUDENT-TEACHERS' BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES
CAROL MAYERS
ACCESSING STUDENT AFFECT: STRATEGIES AND CONCERNS
ANDREA MCDONOUGH & DAVID CLARKE
ABSTRACTION AS THE RECOGNITION OF DEEP SIMILARITIES: THE CASE OF THE ANGLE CONCEPT
Michael Mitchelmore
The analysis of teaching: Constraints on lesson description and critique
Judith A. Mousley & Peter Sullivan & Ann Gervasoni
Politics, Power, Action Research and The Social Constructivist Curriculum
Jim Neyland
ENCOURAGING VISUAL IMAGERY IN CONCEPT CONSTRUCTION: OVERCOMING CONSTRAINTS
Kay Owens
A CONNECTION BETWEEN MATHEMATICS AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY MATHEMATICS
CATHERINE PEARN
AN INVESTIGATION OF STRATEGIES USED TO SOLVE A SIMPLE DEDUCTIVE EXERCISE IN GEOMETRY
John Pegg & Susan Woolley
INTERACTIVE. CONSTITUTION OF MATHEMATICS BY TEACHER EDUCATION STUDENTS
Bob Perry, Noel Geoghegan, Peter Howe, Kay Owens
MANIPULATIVES - CONSTRAINTS ON CONSTRUCTION?
Bob Perry and Peter Howard
FOUR LEVELS OF COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING IN ALGEBRA: AN EMPIRICAL VERIFICATION OF KUCHEMANN'S HYPOTHESIS
B S Prasad
Preservice teachers' construction of decimal numbers
Ian John Putt
COMPARISON OF TEACHING METHODS IN EARLY ALGEBRA
Cyril Quinlan
Providing an overview of qualitative data sets: Log-linear modelling
Ted Redden
Profiles of Some. Non-Routine Problem Solving Episodes
Nick Scott
Analysis of Student Performance in Statistics
Narelle F. Smith, Leigh N. Wood, Roslyn K. Gillies & Gillian Perrett
A COMPARISON OF THE MATHEMATICAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF PRIMARY TEACHER EDUCATION ENTRANTS
Beth Southwell
AFFECTIVE CONSTRAINTS ON CONSTRUCTION IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
Beth Southwell and Mon Khamis
ARITHMETIC WITH A CALCULATOR: WHAT DO CHILDREN NEED TO LEARN?
KAYE STACEY
POLICY TO PRACTICE: HIGH STAKES ASSESSMENT AS A CATALYST FOR CLASSROOM CHANGE
MAX STEPHENS, DAVID CLARKE, MARGARITA PAVLOU
The Use of Mapping Techniques to Investigate Mathematical Processing and Cognitive Demand in Problem Solving
Gloria Stillman
Evaluating A Training Procedure for Problem Solving
Margaret Taplin
A PROCESS-ORIENTED PREFERENCE IN THE WRITING OF ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS
MICHAEL O. J. THOMAS
DYNAMIC IMAGERY IN CHILDREN'S REPRESENTATIONS OF NUMBER
Noel Thomas & Joanne Mulligan
The Development of a Typology for Describing Mathematics Assessment Items
Joanne E. Tims
Curriculum Innovation and the Teaching of Probability in South Australia Colonial Echo, Mature Development or Muddling Through?
John Truran
Diagnosing Children's Probabilistic Understanding
John Truran
Higher Order Thinking and Mathematics
Gurudeo Anand Tularam
Sex Differences In Mathematical Performance Among Chinese Middle School Students
Rodney Turner
Drawing Diagrams and Solving Word Problems: A Study of a Sample of Bruneian Primary a~d Secondary School Children
Palanisamy K. Veloo & Francis Lopez Real
ASSESSING STATISTICAL UNDERSTANDING IN GRADES 3, 6 AND 9 USING A SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONNAIRE
Jane M. Watson, Kevin F. Collis and Jonathan B. Moritz
DEVELOPING A CLINICAL INTERVIEW PROTOCOL TO ASSESS CHlLDREN'S UNDERSTANDING OF PROBABILITY
Jenni Way
A DESCRIPTION OF STUDENT RESPONSES TO RESTRICTIONS ON ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE
Paul White & John Pegg
A PROPOSAL FOR INVESTIGATING STUDENTS' KNOWLEDGE OF HYPOTHESIS TESTING
ANNE WILLIAMS
THE MATHEMATICS RECOVERY PROJECT -- A PROGRESS REPORT: SPECIALIST TEACHERS WORKING WITH LOW-ATTAINING FIRST-GRADERS
Robert Wright, Margaret Cowper, Ann Stafford, Garry Stanger, Rita Stewart
Psychologising Educational Difference
Robyn Zevenbergen
Assessing the Impact of Graphics Calculators on Mathematics Examinations
Peter Jones & Barry McCrae
Investigating The Use Of Language And Mathematics In A Workplace Context
Clive Kanes
 
Short Communication (abstract only)
 
Poster (abstract only)
 
Round Table (abstract only)