KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
… I do and I understand, and then I forget. The role of memory in Mathematics Education – Gordon Knight
Do disadvantaged students fail mathematics or does mathematics fail disadvantaged students? – Robyn Zevenbergen
Missed opportunities in research on the teaching and learning of data and chance – J. Michael Shaughnessy
PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS AWARD
Seventh-grade students problem posing from open-ended situations – Lyn D. English
RESEARCH PAPERS
Teachers’ Reported Use of Problem-Solving Teaching Strategies in Primary Mathematics Classrooms – Judy Anderson
Students’ and Lecturers’ Perceptions of Factors Influencing Students’ Success in First-Year Undergraduate Mathematics Courses – Glenda Anthony
The Construction of Personal Theory on Gender and Mathematics: Nine Case Studies of Women Primary Teacher Trainees – Bill Atweh and Lynn Burnett
Student Error Patterns in Fraction and Decimal Concepts – Jack Bana, Brian Farrell, Alistair Mclntosh
A Different System: Notions of Education and Ways of Mathematising in Fijian Society – Sala Bakalevu
The implication of multiplicative structure for students’ understanding of decimal-number numeration – Annette R Baturo
Researching cultural issues with NESB secondary mathematics students: “In my country it is more difficult” – Alan Bishop, Gilah Leder, Chris Brew, & Cath Pearn
Monitoring Change in Attitude of Preservice Teachers Towards Mathematics and Technology: A Longitudinal Study – Janette Bobis & Robyn Cusworth
Do Algebraic Skills Improve with Higher Learning? – T .M. Boustead
The resolution of uncertainty in mathematics classrooms – David Clarke and Sue Helme
Is an Equilateral Triangle Isosceles? Student Perspectives – Penelope Currie and John Pegg
What is the Object of the Encapsulation of a Process? – Gary Davis, David Tall, & Michael Thomas
The Effect of Instruction on Students’ Generation of Diagrams – Carmel M Diezmann
Year 8, 9 and 10 students’ understanding and access of percent knowledge – Shelley Dole, Tom J. Cooper, Annette R. Baturo, and Zoyrese Conoplia
Pencil-and-paper Mathematics Tests Under the Microscope – Nerida F. Ellerton and M. A. (Ken) Clements
Mathematics in the Vocational Education and Training Sector: A Case Study – Gail E. FitzSimons
The University of Melbourne’s mathematics students: Who are they? Why are they here? Will they stay? – Helen J. Forgasz and Philip Swedosh
Relational word problems: A cross-cultural comparison – Linda Galligan
The effectiveness of a professional development program based on action research – Florenda L. Gallos and Tony Herrington
Students’ Orientations to Learning Statistics – Profiles of Experience – Sue Gordon
Constructing Initial Algebraic Understanding: The Proposed Research – D. Evan Harris
Do they understand what we mean? Assessment and communication – Doreen Hartnall
Improving Understanding in Integration with the Computer – Ye Yoon Hong
Professionalisation and Change in Secondary Mathematics – John Horwood
Secondary Mathematics Teacher Beliefs About the Learning and Teaching of Mathematics – Peter Howard, Bob Perry, & Margaret Lindsay
The Role of Whole Number Knowledge in Rational Number Learning – Robert P. Hunting, Gary E. Davis, & Catherine A. Pearn
What Conflicts Help Students Learn About Decimals? – Kathryn Irwin
Students’ Thinking and Writing in the Context of Probability – Todd M. Johnson, Graham A. Jones, Carol A. Thornton, Cynthia W. Langrall, Amy Rous
Towards an understanding of numerical workplace knowledge – Clive Kanes
Area integration rules – Gillian Kidman
Problem Solving in Algebra: Ability Grouping, Affective Factors and Gender Differences – Saraswathi Kota
Access to level of mathematics study in high school: Social area and school differences – Stephen Lamb
An Evaluation of Two Coding Systems in Determining van Hiele Levels – Christine Lawrie
Looking Back Towards the Future: A Case Study in Mathematics – Gilah C. Leder and Helen J. Forgasz
Young Children’s Knowledge of Three-Dimensional Shapes: Four Case Studies – Neville Leeson, Rita Stewart and Robert, J. Wright
Effect of the Different Syntactic Structures of English and Chinese in Simple Algebraic Problems – Francis Lopez-Real
Choosing or avoiding mathematics at the upper-secondary school level: some significant factors – John Malone, Robert Cavanagh, Beverley Webster, John Dekkers, Ron Toomey, Richard O’Donovan & Robert Elliott
Adult Learning in an Industrial Setting – Peter Martin
Assessing Number Sense: Collaborative Initiatives in Australia, United States, Sweden and Taiwan – Alistair McIntosh, Jack Bana & Brian Farrell
Graphs: Communication lines to students? – J. Moritz & J. Watson
Using Videotapes in Classroom Research to See Anew – Judith A Mousley
Second graders’ representations and conceptual understanding of number: a longitudinal study – Joanne Mulligan, Michael Mitchelmore, Lynne Outhred & Susan Russell
Cooperative professional development for mathematics teachers: A case study – S. Nisbet, S. Dole, & D. Warren
Problem solving in kindergarten: The development of children’s representations of numerical situations – L. Outhred & S. Sardelich
Attitude and attribution in mathematics: Gender factors with low achievers – R. Peard & D. Wiley
Broadening the Descriptors of van Hieles’ Levels 2 and 3 – John Pegg
Statistical Thinking: One Statistician’s Perspective – Maxine Pfannkuch
The Potential of Computer Manipulatives for Overcoming Place Value Misconceptions – Peter S. Price
Teacher Presence as a Variable in Research into Students’ Mathematical Decision-making – Peter S. Price
The Effects of a Computer Algebra System on the Learning of, and Attitudes towards Mathematics amongst Engineering Students in Papua New Guinea – Leonard L. Raj and John Malone
A Report of Research into Student Attitude and Teacher-Student Interpersonal Behaviour in a large Sample of Australian Secondary Mathematics Classrooms – Tony Rickards & Darrell Fisher
The three selves of the prospective primary school teacher of mathematics: An Australian case study – Sandra Schuck
In symmetry is the left the same as the right or is the right left out? – Pamela F. Shaw
A Further Development of a Theoretical Framework for Research into Values in Mathematics Education – Beth Southwell
Should all children use calculators? A Western Australian Survey – Len Sparrow and Paul Swan
Developing tasks to assess mathematical performance – Max Stephens & Peter Sullivan
Links Between Early Arithmetical Knowledge and Early Space and Measurement Knowledge: An Exploratory Study – Rita Stewart, Neville Leeson and Robert, J. Wright
Cooperative learning in secondary mathematics: A quantitative review – Harsh Suri
Mathematical Misconceptions – Can We Eliminate Them? – Philip Swedosh & John Clark
Story weaving a process for critical collaborative professional development – Merilyn Taylor & Bronwen Cowie
The Politics of Mathematics Education 1997 – Jan Thomas
Secondary school mathematics teachers’ views of assessment: Some insights from the Caribbean – Sandra Trotman
The Introduction of Probability into Australian Schools Interpreted Within a Broad-Spectrum Ecological Framework – John Truran
Beliefs About Teaching Stochastics Held by Primary Pre-service Teaching Students – Kathleen Truran
Geeks and Nerds: Computers, gender and the mathematics classroom – Colleen Vale
The problem of the real in curriculum implementation – Margaret Walshaw
Generalising from and transferring between algebraic representation systems: Characteristics that support these processes – Elizabeth Warren
Which jar gives the better chance? Children’s decision-making strategies – Jenni Way
Recognition of abstract angles in familiar physical situations – Paul White & Michael Mitchelmore
Students’ understanding of hypothesis testing: the case of the significance concept – Anne M. Williams
Mathematics at two schools, one Australian, the other Japanese, both located in Australia: Their Philosophies and Practices – Susan Wotley
Goal Orientation Beliefs and Mathematics Achievement: A Longitudinal Study – Shirley M. Yates
From Research Tool to Classroom Assessment Device: The development of Checkout Rapua, a shopping game to assess numeracy at school entry – Jenny Young-Loveridge