KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Opportunities to Learn Mathematics – Anne Watson
The TIMSS 1999 Video Study and its Relevance to Australian Mathematics Education Research, Innovation, Networking, and Opportunities – Hilary Hollingsworth
Working Together to Enhance Australian Aboriginal Students’ Mathematics Learning – Susan Matthews, Peter Howard, Bob Perry
PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS AWARD
Using Case Stories as a Tool for Listening More and Telling Less in Mathematics Teacher Education – Tracey Smith
SYMPOSIA
Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Mathematics Learning – Peter Sullivan, Judith Mousley, Robyn Zevenbergen, Robyn Turner Harrison, Pam Hammond & Carmel Diezmann
Perceptions of Barriers to Numeracy – Judith A. Mousley
Teachers’ Perceptions of How Open-Ended Mathematics Tasks Assist in Overcoming Barriers to Learning – Robyn Turner-Harrison
The Potential of Open-Ended Mathematics Tasks for Overcoming Barriers to Learning – Peter Sullivan
RESEARCH PAPERS
Ethnomathematical Ideas in the Curriculum – Shehenaz Adam
Teachers’ Conceptions of School Algebra and its Teaching: Preliminary Findings from a Study in Colombia – Cecilia Agudelo-Valderrama, & Alan Bishop
Searching for Mathematical Ideas in Stone Walls – Wilfredo Alangui
Implementing Beliefs, Knowledge and Practices: A Beginning Teacher’s Story – Sharne Aldridge & Janette Bobis
Teachers’ Choice of Tasks: A Window into Beliefs About the Role of Problem Solving in Learning Mathematics – Judy Anderson
Pizza for Dinner: “How Much?” or “How Many?” – Glenda Anthony & Margaret Walshaw
Bicultural Perspectives in a Pre-service Mathematics Education Course – Robin Averill & Pӓnia Te Maro
A Window into Mathematics Communities of Practice in Australia and New Zealand – Jack Bana & Margaret Walshaw
Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Beliefs About Assessment and Factors That Influence These Beliefs – Anastasios Barkatsas & John Malone
Investigations Into the Introduction of Logarithm Tables in Victoria – Chris Barling
Patterns of Participation in Small-Group Collaborative Work – Mary Barnes
Ability Grouping and the Construction of Different Types of Learners in Mathematics Classrooms – Hannah Bartholomew
Curriculum: Developing a Systems Theory Perspective – Andy Begg
Accounting for the Contextual Nature of Teachers’ Beliefs in Considering Their Relationship to Practice – Kim Beswick
Children’s Perspectives on Mathematics and Game Playing – Leicha Bragg
Defining Moments in Determining a Complete Graph in a Graphing Calculator Teaching and Learning Environment – Jill Brown
Subject Knowledge in Pre-service Teacher Education – Tim Burgess & Brenda Bicknell
A Comparison Among Three Different Approaches to Mathematics Assessment – Rosemary Callingham
The Positioning of Mathematics in an Environmental Thematic Curriculum – Coral Campbell
Transnumeration and the Art of Data Representation – Helen Chick
Maps That Come Alive: Numeracy Engagement Across Multimodal Texts – Susan Clancy & Tom Lowrie
Similarity and Difference in International Comparative Research in Mathematics Education – David Clarke
Addressing the Challenge of Legitimate International Comparisons: Lesson Structure in Australia and the USA – David Clarke & Carmel Mesiti
More Perspectives on the Impact of Globalisation on Mathematics Education in Higher Education in Australasia – Philip Clarkson & Bill Atweh
Windows Into Mathematics Teaching Through Data Maps – Carmel M Diezmann
Teaching in a Different Direction – Helen Doerr & K. Jamie King
Designing Research on Teachers’ Knowledge Development – Helen Doerr & Richard Lesh
Hops, Steps and Jumps: Mathematical Progress in the Early Years – Brian Doig & Molly de Lemos
Questioning Numeracy Programs for At-Risk Students In The Middle Years Of Schooling – Shelley Dole
Secondary Students’ Perceptions of Instructional Approaches: Implications for Mathematics Learning – Sabita M. D’Souza & Leigh N. Wood
Designing Assessment Using the MATH Taxonomy – Sabita M. D’Souza & Leigh N. Wood
Development of a Web-Based Learning Tool to Enhance Formal Deductive Thinking in Geometry – Madduma Bandara Ekanayake & Christine Brown
The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) Mathematical Methods (CAS) Pilot Study Examinations, 2002 – Michael Evans, Pam Norton & David Leigh-Lancaster
On Student Observation and Student Assessment – Ruhama Even & Tali Wallach
Mathematics as Conversation: A Model for a Mathematics Retrieval Programme Conducted with Small Groups – Judith Falle
Copying on a Graphics Calculator and Implications for Mathematical Understanding – Patricia A. Forster
Re-visioning Curriculum: Towards Communicative Competence – Patricia A. Forster
Using Mathematics Teaching Portfolios to Empower Pre-Service Primary Teachers – Sandra Frid & Len Sparrow
Gender and Approaches to Studying Tertiary Mathematics – Mary-Ruth Freislich & Alan Bowen-James
From Description to Analysis in Technology Aided Teaching and Learning: A Contribution from Zone Theory – Peter Galbraith & Merrilyn Goos
A Teacher-Researcher Perspective on CAS in Senior Secondary Mathematics – Sue Garner & David Leigh-Lancaster
What Students Say: Analysis of Structured Survey Data in Relation to Technology and Mathematics Learning – Vince Geiger
Difficulties Children Face When Learning to Count – Ann Gervasoni
Student Perspectives on Equation: Constructing the Mathematical Object – David Godfrey & Michael Thomas
Learning to Teach Mathematics With Technology: A Study of Beliefs-In-Context – Merrilyn Goos
Facilitating Affective Change With Preservice Primary Teachers – Peter Grootenboer
Mental Computation: Refining the Cognitive Frameworks – Ann M. Heirdsfield
Designing a Discussion: Teacher as Designer – Margret A. Hjalmarson
Mathematics in Indigenous Contexts: A Case Study – Peter Howard, Bob Perry, Kevin Lowe, Suzanne Ziems & Anthony McKnight
Constructing and Using a Personal Numeracy Teaching Model in a Classroom Setting – Peter Hughes & Lynne Petersen
Percentages: A Foundation for Supporting Students’ Understanding of Decimals – Roberta Hunter & Glenda Anthony
The Development of Multiplicative Thinking in Young Children – Lorraine Jacob & Sue Willis
Julia’s Journey: Teacher Research in the Primary Mathematics Classroom – Stephen Keast
Achievement Self-Rating and the Gender Stereotyping of Mathematics – Gilah C. Leder & Helen J. Forgasz
Australian Secondary School Teachers’ Use of the Internet for Mathematics – Esther Loong
Teaching Mathematics Using the Internet – Esther Loong & Bruce White
Posing Problems in ICT-Based Contexts – Tom Lowrie
Tensions and Possibilities: Indigenous Parents Doing Mathematics Curriculum Development – Tamsin Meaney & Uenuku Fairhall
Count Me in Too and the Basic Skills Test in New South Wales – Michael Mitchelmore & Paul White
Shaping Practice: Worksheets as Social Artefacts – Judith A. Mousley
First Graders’ Use of Structure in Visual Memory and Unitising Area Tasks – Joanne Mulligan & Anne Prescott
Re-visioning Curriculum: Shifting the Metaphor from Science to Jazz – Jim Neyland
Individualization of Knowledge Representation in Teacher Education in Mathematics – Engelbert Niehaus
Organising and Representing Grouped Data – Steven Nisbet
A Whole School Approach to the Provision of Mathematics for Low-Achieving Girls in a Secondary School – Bob Perry & Jane Fulcher
Interactive Animation Provides a Vehicle for Exploring Students’ Understandings of Derivatives – Robyn Pierce & Lyn Atkinson
Is it Better to Burn Out or to Rust? – Peter Rawlins
Links Between Beliefs of Pre-Service Teachers About Literacy and Numeracy Learning – Anne Scott
High School Students’ Interpretation of Tables and Graphs: Some Findings From Fiji – Sashi Sharma
Identifying Effective Scaffolding Practices Through Structured Peer Observation and Review – Dianne Siemon & Jo Virgona
Gambling Behaviour and Understanding of Probability Concepts Among University Students – Donald Smith
Exploring the Right, Probing Questions to Uncover Decimal Misconceptions – Vicki Steinle & Kaye Stacey
Monitoring Standards in Education: Mathematics 2002 Assessments – Andrew Stephanou, Barry McCrae, Rhonda Farkota, John Lindsey & Elena Stoyanova
Probing Whole Number Dominance With Fractions – Max Stephens & Catherine Pearn
Metacognitive Intervention in a Cognitive-apprenticeship-computer-based Environment – Teong Su Kwang
A Model of Early Number Development – Kaye Treacy & Sue Willis
Gender and Attitudes to Computer Use in Junior Secondary Mathematics – Colleen Vale
Year 8 Students’ Reasoning in a Cabri Environment – Jill Vincent
Sociomathematical Worlds: Investigating Children’s Developing Relationships with Mathematics – Fiona Walls
Number Combinations and Arithmetic Structure: Implications for Early Algebra – Elizabeth Warren
Inference From a Pictograph: Statistical Literacy in Action – Jane M. Watson & Ben Kelly
Predicting Dice Outcomes: The Dilemma of Expectation Versus Variation – Jane M. Watson & Ben Kelly
The Development of Children’s Reasoning Strategies in Probability Tasks – Jenni Way
Lesson Study: A Model of Professional Development for Teachers of Mathematics in Years 7 to 12 – Allan L. White & Beth Southwell
Associations Between Student Pursuit of Novel Mathematical Ideas and Resilience – Gaye Williams
Assessing Generalisation of Advanced Multiplicative Strategies – Vince Wright
Changes in Teachers’ Perceptions of Technology in Mathematics – Shirley M. Yates
The Perspectives of Two Children who Participated in the Advanced Numeracy Project – Jenny Young-Loveridge & Merilyn Taylor
Mathematical Errors in Fractions: A Case of Bruneian Primary 5 Pupils – Jamilah Yusof & John Malone
Numeracy in New Times: Implications for Youth, Work and Employment – Robyn Zevenbergen & Kelly Zevenbergen
Reforming Mathematics Education: A Case Study Within the Context of New Times – Robyn Zevenbergen
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
A Student’s Strategies in Deriving Quartic Modelling Functions Using Rates of Changes – Karoline Afamasaga-Fuata’t
Classroom and Learning Factors Preferred by Year 9 Students in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics – Barbara Tadich
Developing a Framework of Growth Points in Secondary Students’ Understanding of Function – Erlina Ronda, Doug Clarke, Marj Horne
How is the Motivation of the Two Year 13 Pacific Islands Mathematics Learners Shaped by their Culture? A Case Study – Viliami Finau Latu
Persisting Teen/ty Confusions as an Indicator of a Specific Learning Difficulty in Mathematics: Implications for Assessment and Instruction – Maureen Finnane
Professional Learning in the Teaching of Area – Diane McPhail
Questions in Primary Mathematics Classrooms – Colleen Vale
The Predictive Factors of Classroom Learning Environments on High School Students’ Mathematics Anxiety – Bret A. Taylor
ROUND TABLES
Students’ Knowledge of Rates: A Case for a Foundation Year Program in South Africa – Kabelo Chuene
Investigating the Concerns of Preservice Secondary Mathematics Teachers Through Critical Incident Reflective Journals – Joanne E. Goodell
Developing Prospective Primary Teachers’ Personal Content Knowledge of Mathematics – Roger Harvey
Trigonometric Graph and the Real World: The Technical Students’ Experience – Madihah Khalid
Collective Mathematical Understanding as Improvisation – Lyndon Martin & Jo Towers
Numeracy Equipment and Year 3 Children: Bright, Shiny Stuff, or Supporting the Development of Part-whole Thinking? – Linda Bonne
Professional Development for Mathematics Education Researchers – Helen J. Forgasz
Student Beliefs & Their Impact on Participation in Mathematics in the Middle School – Robyn Turner-Harrison