KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

Bridging Practices: Intertwining Content and Pedagogy in Teaching and Learning to Teach – Deborah Loewenberg Ball

Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards, and Looking for Direction – Andy Begg

Bridging the Gap: A Challenge for the Dual Community – John A. Malone

 PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS AWARD

Collaborative Problem Solving in Senior Secondary Mathematics Classrooms – Merrilyn Goos

SYMPOSIA

Changing the Professional Knowledge of Teachers – Janette Bobis & Peter Gould

Emergence of Mathematical (In)Competence and Identity – Pat Forster & Peter Taylor

Is there more to Numeracy than Meets the Eye? Stories of Socialisation and Subjectification in School Mathematics – Mary Klein

Teachers, Students and Research: One Possibility for Teaching Early Numeracy – Philip Clarkson, Peter Gould & Robert (Bob) Wright

Reviewing Literature Relevant to a Systemic Early Numeracy Initiative: Bases of CMIT – Robert (Bob) Wright & Peter Gould

RESEARCH PAPERS

Mental Effort and Errors in Bracket Expansion Tasks – Paul Ayres

Developing Task Specific Criteria: A Preliminary Report – Dawn Bartlett

Construction of a Numeration Model: A Theoretical Analysis – Annette Baturo

Modes of Representation in Students’ Explanations – Brenda BicknelI

What is Taught versus What is Learnt: The Case of Linear Measurement – Philippa Bragg & Lynne Outhred

Key Factors in the Implementation of an Assessment Innovation: A Case Study – Paul Brown

Are Teachers’ Probability Concepts More Sophisticated than those of their Students? – Tim Burgess

Towards a Framework for Numeracy Assessment – Rosemary Callingham & Patrick Griffin

Curriculum Framework Implementation: Measuring the Impact on Secondary Mathematics Classroom Culture – Robert Cavanagh, Graham Dellar & Len Sparrow

Students’ Technical Difficulties in Operating a Graphics Calculator – Michael Cavanagh & Michael Mitchelmore

Young Adults Making Sense of Data – Helen Chick

The Understanding and Use of Trigonometric/ Algebraic Knowledge during Problem Solving – Mohan Chinnappan, Michael Lawson, & Rod Nason

Function Representations and Technology-Enhanced Teaching – Mohan Chinnappan & Mike Thomas

The Early Numeracy Research Project: Developing a Framework for Describing Early Numeracy Learning – Doug Clarke, Peter Sullivan, Jill Cheeseman, Barbara Clarke

Challenges and Constraints in Researching Values – Philip Clarkson, Alan Bishop, Gail FitzSimons, & Wee Tiong Seah

Mathematics Software Design in Mathematics Education: Factors that Promote Higher-Level Thinking – Martin Cooper & John Malone

First Experiences with a Computer Algebra System – Mary Coupland

Tertiary Students’ Rankings of the Factors Behind their Choice to Study Mathematics and Computing: A Gender and Regional Study – Patricia Cretchley, Christine McDonald, & Anne Fuller

Mathematics Enrolments in Australian Upper Secondary Schools: Trends and Implications – John Dekkers, John Malone, & John de Laeter

Making Sense with Diagrams: Students’ Difficulties with Feature-Similar Problems – Carmel M. Diezmann

Recognizing and Realizing “Best Practice” in Initial Mathematics Teacher Education and Classroom Teaching – Paula Ensor

Students’ Visualisations of Three-dimensional Shapes – Jill Everett & Joanne Mulligan

Gender, Early Encouragement, and Survival in Mathematics Studies – Mary-Ruth Freislich & Alan Bowen-James

Factors Affecting Mathematics Achievement in Primary and Secondary schools: Results from TIMSS – Sue Fullarton & Stephen Lamb

Manipulator or Magician: Is there a Free Lunch? – Peter Galbraith & Mike Pemberton

Using Growth Point Profiles to Identify Year 1 Students who are at Risk of not Learning School Mathematics Successfully – Ann Gervasoni

Rural Students and Graphics Calculators in Examinations: Some Preliminary Findings – David Haimes

Understanding of Functions Among Maldivian Teacher Education Students – Ibrahim Hassan, Khadeeja Mohamed & Michael Mitchelmore

Improving Decimal Understanding: Can Targetted Resources Make a Difference? – Sue Helme & Kaye Stacey

Preservice Mathematics Teachers on Professional Practice: How can the Internet Help? – Tony Herrington, Jan Herrington & Arshad Omari

Assessment Strategies: Using Multimedia to Promote Transfer to Classroom Practice – Jan Herrington, Tony Herrington & Len Sparrow

Difficulties Learning Simple Addition Facts: A Persistent Problem – Sarah Hopkins

Beliefs about Mathematics, Mathematics Learning and Mathematics Teaching: Views of Some Primary Teacher Education Students in Singapore and Australia – Peter Howard, Bob Perry & Fang Ho Keong

Effective Teaching of Decimals: Evaluating Teachers’ Practices – Kathryn Irwin

Numeracy for Preservice Teachers: Focusing on the Mathematics and its Discursive Powers in Teacher Education – Mary Klein

Classroom and Teacher Effects in Mathematics Achievement: Results from TIMSS – Stephen Lamb & Sue Fullarton

3-Dimensional Geometry: Assessment of Students’ Responses – Christine Lawrie & John Pegg

Mathematics and Gender: Beliefs they are a Changin’ – Gilah Leder & Helen J Forgasz

Informal Assessment Questions Used by Secondary School Mathematics Teachers – Sanka Liyanage, Kathryn Irwin & Mike Thomas

Grade 1 Children in Problem-Posing Contexts: Problem Solving Prior to Completing the Task – Tom Lowrie

Knowledge and Strategies Students Employ to Solve Open-Ended Problem-Solving Activities – Tom Lowrie, Rod Francis & Geoff Rogers

Mental Computation, Number Sense and General Mathematics Ability: Are they Linked? – Alistair McIntosh & Shelley Dole

Designing Constructivist Computer Games for Teaching about Decimal Numbers – Janine McIntosh, Kaye Stacey, Calvin Tromp & Darren Lightfoot

Scaffolding: A Suitable Teaching Characteristic in one-to-one Teaching in Maths Recovery – Bronwyn McMahon

Low Achieving Mathematics Students’ Attitudinal and Achievement Changes as a Result of Using an Integrated Learning System – Campbell McRobbie, Annette Baturo & Tom Cooper

Teaching for Abstraction: Reconstructing Constructivism – Michael Mitchelmore & Paul White

Graphical Representations of Statistical Associations by Upper Primary Students – Jonathan Moritz

Reasoning and Expressing Probability in Students’ Judgements of Coin Tossing – Jonathan Moritz & Jane Watson

The Practicum as Context: Two Snapshots – Judith Mousley & Georgina Herbert

A Comparative Analysis of the 1996-1999 Calculus TEE Papers – Ute Mueller & Patricia A. Forster

Using Students’ Perceptions to Modify Activities – Charles Nannestad

A Secondary Mathematics Teacher Explains his Non-Use of Computers in Teaching – Stephen Norton & Campbell McRobbie

A Framework for Teaching Early Measurement – Lynne Outhred & Diane McPhail

An Investigation of Literacy in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics in Secondary Schools Serving Low Socio-economic Status Communities – Bob Perry, Lloyd Dawe, Peter Howard & Bob Dengate

A Model for the Promotion of Statistical Thinking? – Maxine Pfannkuch

The Perceptions and Practice of Assessment in Mathematics Education of Teachers of Years 3 and Year 6 Students – Maxine Pfatmkuch

Primary School Students’ Statistical Thinking: A Comparison of Two Australian States – Ian Putt, Bob Perry, Graham Jones, Carol Thornton, Cynthia Langrall, Edward Mooney

They ‘Did the Sheet’ but didn’t ‘Feed the Mind’ – Jan Savell

The Use of Investigative Methods in Teaching and Learning Primary Mathematics in the Northern Province Schools (South Africa): A Case Study – Mokgoko Sebela

Researching Numeracy in the Middle Years – Dianne Siemon & Patrick Griffin

Exploring the Nexus between Assessment and Instruction in Mathematics – Tracey Smith

Portfolios as a Tool for Professional Development: A Basis of Reflective Practice – Rose Spanneberg

Change in Attitude Towards Mathematics among Aboriginal Adult Learners – Elizabeth Spielman & Michael Mitchelmore

Research-Led Policy Change for Technologically-Active Senior Mathematics Assessment – Kaye Stacey, Barry McCrae, Helen Chick, Gary Asp & David Leigh-Lancaster

Computational Choice: The Reasons Behind the Choices – Paul Swan & Jack Bana

They can run, but can they hide? – Philip Swedosh & John Clark

Is the MERGA Conference Refereeing Process Fair? – John Truran & Kathleen Truran

Is the MERGA Refereeing Process Improving the Quality of Australasian Mathematics Education Research? – Kathleen Truran & John Truran

Current Research on MS&T Curriculum Integration in Western Australia: Examining the Knowns and the Unknowns – John Wallace, Leonie Rennie & John Malone

Strategy Transfer between Computer Programming and Mathematical Problem Solving – Caroline Walta

Primary School Children’s Knowledge of Arithmetic Structure – Elizabeth Warren & Lyn English

Factors in Primary School Teachers’ Beliefs about Mathematics and Teaching and Learning Mathematics – Elizabeth Warren & Steven Nisbet

Intuition versus Mathematics: The Case of the Hospital Problem – Jane Watson

The Use of Teacher Action Theories in the Articulation of Practice: The Use of Stencils in Upper NSW Primary Classrooms – Allan White

Collaborative Problem Solving and Discovered Complexity – Gaye Williams

Changing Immigration Patterns and Teacher Perceptions of Responses in Mathematics Classroom Education in the Last Fifty Years – Susan E. Wotley

How Children’s Understanding of the Number System varies as a Function of Ethnicity and Socio-Economic Status – Jennifer Young-Loveridge

Using Study Groups to Support Mathematics Learning in Preservice Teacher Education – Robyn Zevenbergen