KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Australian Mathematics Learning in an International Context – Barry McGaw
Mathematics Education for the Third Millennium: Visions of a future for handheld classroom technology – Stephen Arnold
MERGA: A Community of Practice – Glenda Anthony
SYMPOSIA
ICT-Numeracy Practices in a School Serving a Disadvantaged Community – Peter D. Renshaw
Researching Numeracy Teaching and Learning with ICT: Facing the Problems of Innovation – Steve Lerman
Scaffolding and Problem Posing: Supporting Student Engagement – Chris Judd
Using ICTs to Support Numeracy Learning: The way of the future? Whose future? – Robyn Zevenbergen
RESEARCH PAPERS
A Novice Teacher’s Conception of the Crucial Determinants of his Teaching of Beginning Algebra – Cecilia Agudelo-Valderrama
The Influence of Perceived Constraints on Teachers’ Problem-Solving Beliefs and Practices – Judy Anderson, Peter Sullivan and Paul White
Understandings of the Implications of the Treaty of Waitangi in Mathematics Programs – Robin Averill, Dayle Anderson, Herewini Easton and Anne Hynds
The Relationship between the Estimation and Computation Abilities of Year 7 Students – Jack Bana and Phuntsho Dolma
Equity and Empowerment in Mathematics: Some Tensions From the Secondary Classroom – Hannah Bartholomew
The Mathematical Discourse of Advanced Undergraduate Mathematics – Bill Barton, Robert Chan, Chris King and Phillipa Neville-Barton
The Mathematics of Indigenous Card Games: Implications for Mathematics Teaching and Learning – Annette R Baturo, Stephen Norton and Tom J Cooper
Talking and Writing About the Problem Solving Process – Kim Beswick and Tracey Muir
Time, Resources, Information Overload and Classroom Management: Issues surrounding Professional Development – Janette Bobis
Teacher Approaches to Graphing a Difficult Cubic Function – Jill Brown
Can the Notion of Affordances be of Use in the Design of a Technology Enriched Mathematics Curriculum? – Jill Brown, Gloria Stillman and Sandra Herbert
Developing Geometrical Reasoning – Margaret Brown, Keith Jones, Ron Taylor and Ann Hirst
Integrating Everyday and Scientific Ways of Knowing Mathematics Through Forms of Participation in Classroom Talk – Raymond Brown and Peter Renshaw
Primary Students’ Understanding of Proof – Rosemary Callingham, Judith Falle and Garry Clark
Perception of Mental Computation Practice: Reports From Middle School Teachers and Students – Annaliese Caney
Tools for Transnumeration: Early Stages in the Art of Data Representation – Helen Chick
Numeracy Enacted: Preschool Families Conceptions of Their Children’s Engagements with Numeracy – Barbara Clarke and Jill Robbins
Algebraic Thinking in Geometry at High School Level: Students’ Use of Variables and Unknowns – Jaguthsing Dindyal
Teachers’ Characteristics: One Lesson ─ Two Learning Environments – Carmel Diezmann
Two Pathways to Multiplicative Thinking – Fiona Ell, Kay Irwin and Stuart McNaughton
Mathematical Modelling in the Primary School – Lyn D. English
Learning Through Interacting with Students’ Ways of Thinking – Lyn D. English and Helen M. Doerr
Supporting Reflection as Pre-Service Primary Teachers Develop a Mathematics Teaching Portfolio – Sandra Frid and Len Sparrow
The Challenge of Meeting the Instructional Needs of Grade 1 and Grade 2 Children Who Are at Risk in Mathematics – Ann Gervasoni
Numeracy for Nurses: The Case for Traditional Versus Non-traditional Methods for Teaching Drug Calculation – Roslyn Gillies
What Do They See When They Look? Student Perspectives on Equations – David Godfrey and Michael O. J. Thomas
Emergence of a Pre-Service Community of Practice – Merrilyn Goos and Anne Bennison
Building Partnerships with Families and Communities to Support Children’s Numeracy Learning – Merrilyn Goos and Lesley Jolly
Addressing the Needs of Mathematically Anxious Preservice Primary Teachers – Ngarewa Hawera
An Investigation into the Modelling of Word Problems – Ruth Hubbard
Operating with Decimal Fractions as a Part-Whole Concept – Kathryn C Irwin and Murray S. Britt
Professional Development of Mathematics Teachers in Low Socio-Economic Secondary Schools in New Zealand – Barbara Kensington-Miller
Preservice Teacher Education in Mathematics: Thinking Innovatively About Innovation – Mary Klein
How Binary Thinking in School Mathematics Masks and Maintains its Coercive and Conservative Effects: A Poststructuralist Analysis – Mary Klein and Linda Saunders
There is More to Learning Mathematics than Mathematics: Attributional Beliefs and Motivation of Maori and Pacific Island Students – Viliami Finau Latu
Authentic Artefacts: Influencing Practice and Supporting Problem Solving in the Mathematics Classroom – Tom Lowrie
When is Three Quarters not Three Quarters? Listening for Conceptual Understanding in Children’s Explanations in a Fraction Interview – Annie Mitchell and Doug Clarke
Alternative Learning Trajectories – Judith Mousley, Peter Sullivan and Robyn Zevenbergen
The Numeracy Research in NSW Primary Schools Project 2001-2003 – Joanne Mulligan and Susan Busatto
Effortless Mastery and the Jazz Metaphor – Jim Neyland
Social Justice and the Jazz Metaphor – Jim Neyland
Primary Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices with Respect to Compulsory Numeracy Testing – Steven Nisbet and Peter Grimbeek
Using Lego Construction to Develop Ratio Understanding – Stephen Norton
School Mathematical Achievement as a Predictor of Success in a First Year University Mathematics Foundations Unit – Robert Peard
Why You Have to Probe to Discover What Year 8 Students Really Think About Fractions – Catherine Pearn and Max Stephens
Addressing Changing Assessment Agendas: Experiences of Secondary Mathematics Teachers in Rural NSW – John Pegg and Debra Panizzon
Learning Approaches in University Calculus: The Effects of an Innovative Assessment Program – Marina Penglase
Fermi Problems in Primary Mathematics Classrooms: Pupils’ Interactive Modelling Processes – Andrea Peter-Koop
CAS: Student Engagement Requires Unambiguous Advantages – Robyn Pierce, Sandra Herbert and Jason Giri
Numbers and Maps: The Dynamic Interaction of Internal Meanings and External Resources in Use – Dave Pratt and Amanda Simpson
Investigating Parental Attitudes and Beliefs in Mathematics Education – Ruth Pritchard
When Does Successful Comparison of Decimals Reflect Conceptual Understanding? – Anne Roche and Doug Clarke
Structured Peer Interactions to Enhance Learning in Mathematics – Kathryn Rowe and Brenda Bicknell
Shifting the Lens of Inquiry into the Socialisation of Mathematics Teachers: Nature of Value Differences – Wee Tiong Seah
Classics Counts Over Calculus: A Case Study – Fiona Shannon
Learning in a Community of Inquirers: Developing an Inquiry Stance – Tracey J. Smith
MERJ: Reviewing the Reviews – Beth Southwell
A Longitudinal Study of Students’ Understanding of Decimal Notation: An Overview and Refined Results – Vicki Steinle and Kaye Stacey
The ‘Mathematically Able Child’ in Primary Mathematics Education: A Discursive Approach – Fiona Walls
Becoming Knowledgeable in Practice: The Constitution of Secondary Teaching Identity – Margaret Walshaw
Mathematical Patterning in Early Childhood Settings – Jillian Waters
A Two-Year Study of Students’ Appreciation of Variation in the Chance and Data Curriculum – Jane M. Watson and Ben A. Kelly
Beliefs about Chance in the Middle Years: Longitudinal Change – Jane M. Watson, Annaliese Caney and Ben A. Kelly
Background Knowledge and Connectedness: The Case of Mathematics – Paul White and Michael Mitchelmore
Explaining Thai and Japanese Student Errors in Solving Equation Problems: The Role of the Textbook – Duangmanee Ya-amphan and Alan Bishop
Numeracy Practices in Contemporary Work: Changing Approaches – Robyn Zevenbergen and Kelly Zevenbergen
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Expansion of Binomials and Factorisation of Quadratic Expressions: Exploring a Vedic Method – Mala Saraswathy Nataraj and Michael O. J. Thomas
Integration or Incorporation? An Examination of the Use of Technology in Tertiary Mathematics Courses – Greg Oates
Monitoring Early Mathematical Development in Transition from Pre-school to Formal Schooling: An Intervention Study – Marina Papic
Practicum and Affective Development in Mathematics – Peter Grootenboer
Student’s Willingness to Attend to Mathematics: A Year 9 Mathematics Classroom Case Study – Barbara Tadich
Teaching and Learning Mathematics: Have We Lost the Spirit? – Beth Southwell
ROUND TABLES
Analysing Students’ Thinking: Strategies Employed In Early Equation Solving – George Toth and Loretta Weedon
Numeracy Intervention in Junior Secondary Mathematics – Colleen Vale