2005 Conference Proceedings

TABLE OF CONTENTS

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

Essential Complementarities: Arguing for an Integrative Approach to Research in Mathematics Classrooms – David Clarke

The Impact of Mathematics Education Reform in New Zealand: Taking Children’s Views into Account – Jenny Young-Loveridge

PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS AWARD

Variation and Expectation as Foundations for the Chance and Data Curriculum – Jane M. Watson

 

SYMPOSIUM

A Mathematics Teacher Educator’s Perspective of Building Connections between Research, Theory, and Practice – Colleen McMurchy-Pilkington, Vicki Nally, Will Morony, Di Siemon & Peter Gould

 

RESEARCH PAPERS

Rates of Change and an Iterative Conception of Quadratics – Karoline Afamasaga-Fuata’i

The Role of Attention in Classroom Practice: Developing a Methodology – Janet Ainley and Michael Luntley

Use of a Cultural Metaphor in Pre-service Mathematics Teacher Education – Dayle Anderson, Robin Averill, Herewini Easton and Derek Smith

Implementing Problem Solving in Mathematics Classrooms: What Support do Teachers Want? – Judy Anderson

I Didn’t Know What I Didn’t Know: A Case Study of Growth in Teacher Knowledge within the Intermediate Numeracy Project – Julie Anderson

Conceptions and Tensions in Globalisation and Their Effects on Mathematics Educators – Bill Atweh and Phillip Clarkson

Using Jamie’s Experiences: An Investigation into Using Teachers’ Stories in Pre-service Mathematics Teacher Education – Robin Averill and Roger Harvey

Students’ Views on Using CAS in Senior Mathematics – Lynda Ball and Kaye Stacey

A New Scale for Monitoring Students’ Attitudes to Learning Mathematics with Technology (MTAS) – Anastasios Barkatsas

It Depends on the Students: Influencing Teachers’ Beliefs about the Ends and Means of Numeracy Teaching – Kim Beswick

Experienced and Novice Teachers’ Choice of Examples – Chris Bills and Liz Bills

Teachers’ Preferences and Practices Regarding Values in Teaching Mathematics and Science – Alan Bishop, Barbara Clarke, Debbie Corrigan and Dick Gunstone

The Mathematics Talk of a Secondary School Teacher of Mathematics and Physics – Michelle L. W. Bower

Algebraic Thinking in the Numeracy Project: Year One of a Three-Year Study – Murray S. Britt and Kathryn C. Irwin

Affordances of a Technology-Rich Teaching and Learning Environment – Jill P Brown

‘I Type What I Think and Try It’: Children’s Initial Approaches to Investigation Through Spreadsheets – Nigel Calder

Primary Students’ Mental Computation: Strategies and Achievement – Rosemary Callingham

Developing Effective Teachers of Mathematics: Factors Contributing to Development in Mathematics Education for Primary School Teachers – Jean Carroll

Enhancing Mathematical Understanding Through Self-assessment and Self-Regulation of Learning: The Value of Meta-Awareness – Rosemaree Caswell and Steven Nisbet

The Value of Play to Enhance Mathematical Learning in the Middle Years of Schooling – Rosemaree Caswell

Early Numeracy Coordinators in Victorian Primary Schools: Components of the Role, Highlights and Challenges – Jill Cheeseman and Doug Clarke

Teaching Elementary Probability: Not Leaving it to Chance – Helen Chick and Monica Baker

Children’s Mappings of Part-Whole Construct of Fractions – Mohan Chinnappan

Prospective Teacher’s Representations of Multiplication – Mohan Chinnappan

The Evaluation of the Success in Numeracy Education Program – Doug Clarke, Max Stephens, Gerard Lewis and Ann Downton

Conceptual Understanding of Spatial Measurement – Margaret Curry and Lynne Outhred

Learning to Notice: One Aspect of Teachers’ Content Knowledge in the Numeracy Classroom – Ngaire Davies and Karen Walker

How Unusual is the Gender Specificity of Mathematical Test Item Types Reported for Dutch Primary School Students? – Lorraine Davis, David Clarke and Marja van den Heuvel-Panhuizen

Assessing Primary Students’ Knowledge of Networks, Hierarchies and Matrices using Scenario-Based Tasks – Carmel Diezmann

Pedagogy by my Standards: A Teacher’s Views on Two Process Standards – Jaguthsing Dindyal

Primary and Secondary Mathematics Practice: How Different is it? – Brian Doig, Susie Groves, Russell Tytler and Annette Gough

A Mathematics Education Ghost Story: Herbartianism and School Mathematics – Nerida F. Ellerton and M. A. (Ken) Clements

Seventh-Graders’ Mathematical Modelling on Completion of a Three-Year Program – Lyn D. English and Jillian L. Fox

Mathematical Methods Computer Algebra System (CAS) 2004 Pilot Examinations and Links to a Broader Research Agenda – Michael Evans, Pam Norton and David Leigh-Lancaster

From Arithmetic to Algebra: Novice Students’ Strategies for Solving Equations – Judith Falle

Towards a Language-based Model of Students’ Early Algebraic Understandings: Some Preliminary Findings – Judith Falle

Integrating ICT into Professional Practice: A Case Study of Four Mathematics Teachers – Noleine Fitzallen

Mathematics Teachers: A Study of Life Inside School and Beyond – Helen J. Forgasz and Gilah C. Leder

Master, Servant, Partner and Extension of Self: A Finer grained View of this Taxonomy – Vince Geiger

The Growth of Schematic Thinking about Derivative – Alan Gil delos Santos and Michael O. J. Thomas

The Role of Online Discussion in Building a Community of Practice for Beginning Teachers of Secondary Mathematics – Merrilyn Goos and Anne Bennison

Year 6 Students’ Methods of Comparing the Size of Fractions – Peter Gould

Reflections on Teaching Mathematics in an Exam-Driven School: An Autoethnography – Fiona Hagan

How do we Provide Tasks for Children to Explore the Definitions of Quadrilaterals? – Alice Hansen and Dave Pratt

Mental Computation: The Benefits of Informed Teacher Instruction – Ann Heirdsfield and Janeen Lamb

Discourse as a Catalyst for Facilitating Practitioner Research -Beth Herbel-Eisenmann

Potential of Technology and a Familiar Context to Enhance Students’ Concept of Rate of Change – Sandra Herbert and Robyn Pierce

The Effects of Number Knowledge at School Entry on Subsequent Number Development: A Five-year Longitudinal Study – Marj Horne

Reforming Communication in the Classroom: One Teacher’s Journey of Change – Roberta Hunter

Mentoring Mathematics Teachers in Low Socio-Economic Secondary Schools in New Zealand – Barbara Kensington-Miller

The Contested Notion of Sustainability: Possibility or Pipe Dream for Numeracy Reforms in New Zealand – Nicky Knight

Students’ Use of Context Knowledge in Interpreting Data – Cynthia Langrall, Edward Mooney and Nicole Williams

Language Factors that affect Mathematics Teaching and Learning of Pasifika Students – Viliami F. Latu

How Primary Pre-service Teachers Perceive Mathematics Teacher Educators’ Practice: A Case Study – Gregor Lomas

Establishing a Numeracy Culture in a Distance Education Learning Environment: A Case Study – Tom Lowrie

Formalising the Role of Indigenous Counting Systems in Teaching the Formal English Arithmetic Strategies Through Local Vernaculars: An Example From Papua New Guinea – Rex A. Matang

Does Mathematics Education in Australia Devalue Indigenous Culture? Indigenous Perspectives and non-Indigenous Reflections – Chris Matthews, Leesa Watego, Tom J. Cooper and Annette R. Baturo

Professional Development as a Catalyst for Changes in Beliefs and Practice: Perspectives from the Early Numeracy Research Project – Andrea McDonough and Barbara Clarke

Growth of Teacher Knowledge within an On-line Collaborative Learning Environment – Mathew McDougall and Rod Nason

The Use of Algebra in Senior High School Students’ Justifications – Tamsin Meaney

Measuring Fractions – Annie Mitchell

What Does Mathematics Understanding Look Like? – Judith Mousley

Where Did I Go Wrong? Students’ Success at Various Stages of the Problem-Solving Process – Tracey Muir and Kim Beswick

Understanding Students’ Reasoning While Comparing Expressions – Shweta Naik, Rakhi Banerjee and K Subramaniam

Regional Differences in the Professional Development Needs and Preferences of Teachers of Primary Mathematics – Steven Nisbet

Mathematics and the Construction of Feminine Gender Identity – Stephen Norton

Do Teachers Change Their Practices While Participating in a Lesson Study? – Jo Clay Olson

Teachers’ Development of Substantive Communication about Mathematics – Kay Owens

Preschoolers’ Mathematical Patterning – Marina Papic and Joanne Mulligan

The Effect of Money as a Context on the Mental Computation Performance of Students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 – Anne Paterson and Jack Bana

Mathematical Beliefs and Achievement of Pre-service Primary Teachers – Bob Perry, Jenni Way, Beth Southwell, Allan White and John Pattison

Student Misconceptions about Projectile Motion – Anne Prescott and Michael Mitchelmore

Subject Matter Knowledge: Mathematical Errors and Misconceptions of Beginning Pre-Service Teachers – Julie Ryan and Barry McCrae

Education for Early Mathematical Literacy: More Than Maths Know-How – Abigail Sawyer

Preservice Teachers’ Intentions to Provide Good Examples and Help Children Replicate Them – Anne Scott

Understanding the Role of Assumptions in Mathematical Modeling: Analysis of Lessons with Emphasis on ‘the awareness of assumptions’ – Tatsuhiko Seino

Exploring Pre-service Teachers’ Reasoning about Variability: Implications for Research – Sashi Sharma

Building a Methodology for the Comparison and Evaluation of Middle-Years Mathematics Textbooks – Mal Shield

Assessing Multiple Objectives with a Single Task in Statistics – Jane Skalicky

Relative Risk Analysis of Educational Data – Kaye Stacey and Vicki Steinle

Concerns Relating to the CAS Use at University Level – Sepideh Stewart

The Integration of Mathematics and Music in the Primary School Classroom – Kathryn Still and Janette Bobis

Interactive Whole Class Teaching and Interactive White Boards – Howard Tanner, Sonia Jones, Steve Kennewell and Gary Beauchamp

Children’s Views of their Teacher’s Role in Helping them Learn Mathematics – Merilyn Taylor, Ngarewa Hawera and Jenny Young-Loveridge

Students’ Attempts to Solve Two Elementary Quadratic Equations: A Study in Three Nations – Pongchawee Vaiyavutjamai, Nerida F. Ellerton and M. A. (Ken) Clements

Glimpses of Generative Practice: Constructing Pre-service Teachers’ Learning in Partnership – Colleen Vale and Anne Davies

Challenging Task-driven Pedagogies of Mathematics – Fiona Walls

Patterns Supporting the Development of Early Algebraic Thinking – Elizabeth A. Warren

An Indigenous Perspective on Mathematics Contextualisation in a Pre-school: From Safety to Empowerment – Leesa Watego

Statistical Literacy over a Decade – Jane M. Watson, Ben A. Kelly and John F. Izard

Teaching Percentage as a Multiplicative Relationship – Paul White and Michael Mitchelmore

‘I am really not alone in this anxiety’: Bibliotherapy and Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Self-image as Mathematicians – Sue Wilson and Steve Thornton

Language Appropriate for the New Zealand Numeracy Project – Joanne Woodward and Kathryn C. Irwin

Results of a Teaching Experiment to Foster the Conceptual Understanding of Multiplication Based on Children’s Literature – Amanda Worlley and Romina Jamieson-Proctor

Prioritising the Voice of Researched: Using Photographs to Elicit Mathematical Thinking of Participants – Robyn Zevenbergen

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The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) Mathematical Methods Computer Algebra System (CAS) Pilot Study Examinations 2003 – Michael Evans, Pam Norton and David Leigh-Lancaster missing pdf expect 2004 (pp. 223-230)

“Open your textbooks to page blah, blah, blah”: “So I just blocked off!” – Bronwyn Ewing pdf 2004 (pp. 231-238)

Student Expectations of Studying Mathematics at University – Keith Hirst, Susan Meacock and Elfrida Ralha pdf 2004 (pp. 295-302)

High School Students’ Understanding of Samples and Sampling Variability: Implications for Teaching and Research – Sashi Sharma missing pdf expect 2004 (pp. 517-524)

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

“My Mom Thinks I Should be an Engineer”: Parental influences and Girls on Track for Math-Related Careers – Maria Droujkova, Sarah B. Berenson, Irena Rindos and Sue Tombes

An Investigation of the Selection Process of Mathematically Gifted Students – Kyunghwa Lee, Kyungmee Park and Jaehoon Yim

Graphs, Transformations, Rates of Change and Quadratic Context Variations – Karoline Afamasaga-Fuata’i

Mathematical Problem-Solving Frameworks of Different Mathematics-Anxiety Levels Students – Yeo Kai Kow Joseph

Message from Student Teacher Constructed Posters – Shajahan Haja

Persistent Mathematics Misperceivers: Two Case Studies – Martin Lamb, John Malone, Daniel Boase-Jelinek, and Scott Lewis

The Language of Zero: An Understanding of Place Value – Tracey Snape

Young Children Reasoning with Tables: Toward a Model – Maria Droujkova

ROUND TABLES

Challenges for Mathematics Education in Pacific Island Nations in the 21st Century – Andy Begg

Do High School Students Need Mathematics to Prepare for the Academic Numeracy Demands of University? – Janet A Taylor and Linda Galligan

Keeping it Going: Exploring Ways to Sustain Professional Development in Numeracy – Fiona McDiarmid and Ruth Pritchard

Preparing for Assessments of our Research Productivity – Peter Sullivan

Use of Projects in the Teaching of Statistics – Murray Black