2009 Conference Proceedings

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

Being Mathematical, Holding Mathematics: Further Steps in Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching – Bill Barton

Developing Pedagogies in Teacher Education to Support Novice Teachers’ Ability to Enact Ambitious Instruction – Elham Kazemi, Megan Franke & Magdalene Lampert

 

SYMPOSIA

Developing Mathematical Concepts in Australian Pre-school Settings – Judith Mousley, Bob Perry, Marina Papic, Joanne Mulligan & Janette Bobis

Crossing Philosophical Divides to Better Understand the Complexity of the Learning Process in Mathematics – Mary Klein, Kerry Smith & Silvia Dimarco

A New Approach to Mathematical Problem Solving in the School Curriculum – Jaguthsing Dindyal, Toh Tin Lam, Quek Khiok Seng, Leong Yew Hoong & Tay Eng Guan

Reforming Mathematical Pedagogy in Remote Indigenous Context – Peter Grootenboer, Robyn Jorgensen (Zevenbergen), Richard Niesche & Peter Sullivan

Task Types and Mathematics Learning – Helen O’Shea, Irit Peled, Barbara Clarke, Doug Clarke, Anne Roche & Peter Sullivan 

 

RESEARCH PAPERS

 

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Innovative Problem Solving and Students’ Mathematics Attitudes – Karoline Afamasaga-Fuata’i

“My Favourite Subject is Maths. For Some Reason No-one Really Agrees With Me”: What Year 6 Students Say About Mathematics – Catherine Attard

Re-focussing Research Agendas – Andy Begg

Guessing Answers to Pass a 5-item True False Test: Solving a Binomial Problem Three Different Ways – Anthony Bill, Jane Watson & Peter Gayton

Concept Maps: Implications for the Teaching of Function for Secondary School Students – Jill P Brown

Students’ Recollections of Participating in Collective Argumentation When Doing Mathematics – Raymond Brown & Brooke Reeves

Changing Teachers’ Classroom Practice through Developmental Assessment: Constraints, Concerns and Unintended Impacts – Rosemary Callingham, John Pegg & Teresa Wright

The Development and Validation of the Students’ Self-efficacy for Statistical Literacy Scale – Colin Carmichael & Ian Hay

Gender Differences in Middle School Students’ Interests in a Statistical Literacy Context – Colin Carmichael & Ian Hay

Group Metacognition During Mathematical Problem Solving – Christina Chalmers

Challenging Mathematical Conversations – Jill Cheeseman

Teaching the Distributive Law: Is Fruit Salad Still on the Menu? – Helen Chick

Mathematics Education, Language, and Culture: Ponderings From a Different Geographic Context – Marta Civil

Institutional Gaps in Mathematics Education Research Procedures Between a Developed and Developing Country – Ernest Kofi Davis, Wee Tiong Seah & Alan J. Bishop

Developing Year 5 Students’ Understanding of Density: Implications for Mathematics Teaching – Shelley Dole, Doug Clarke, Tony Wright & Geoff Hilton

It Seems to Matters Not Whether it is Partitive or Quotitive Division When Solving One Step Division Problems – Ann Downton

Developing Conceptual Place Value: Instructional Design for Intensive Intervention – David Ellemor-Collins, Robert (Bob) Wright

I, You and It: Pronouns and Students’ Understanding of Introductory Algebra – Judith Falle

Teachers’ Use of Mathematics Tasks: The Impact on the Mathematics Learning and Affective Responses of Low-attaining Upper Primary Students – Sarah Ferguson

Textbook Dilemmas – Tricia Forrester

The Master, Servant, Partner, Extension-of-self Framework in Individual, Small Group and Whole Class Contexts– Vince Geiger

Investigating the Professional Learning and Development of Mathematics Teacher Educators: A Theoretical Discussion and Research Agenda – Merrilyn Goos

Revealing Conceptions of Rate of Change – Sandra Herbert & Robyn Pierce

Competencies, Skills and Assessment – Tomas Hojgaard

Success for Underachievers: How Do They Get It? – Marilyn Holmes & Sandi Tait-McCutcheon

Teachers’ Perspectives on the Transition from Secondary to Tertiary Mathematics Education – Ye Yoon Hong, Suzanne Kerr, Sergiy Klymchuk, Johanna McHardy, Priscilla Murphy, Sue Spencer, Mike Thomas & Peter Watson

Developing a Productive Discourse Community in the Mathematics Classroom – Jodie Hunter

Exploring Whether Multiple Intelligences Facilitate ‘Valuing and Working With Difference’ within Mathematics Classrooms– Fiona Jackson & Raymond Brown

Issues in bridging between senior secondary and first year university mathematics – Michael Jennings

Students’ Perceptions of the Impacts of Parents, Teachers and Teaching upon their Anxiety about the Learning of Fractions – Michelle Jennison & Kim Beswick

Insights into the Beliefs and Practices of Teachers in a Remote Indigenous Context – Robyn Jorgensen (Zevenbergen), Peter Grootenboer & Richard Niesche

Identifying Effective Leadership Practices for Implementing a New Mathematics Curriculum in Taipei – Brandon Kao & Peter Hudson

Being Numerate for Teaching: The Indivisibility of Learning Landscape, Participation and Practice – Mary Klein & Kerry Smith

Leading Change in Mathematics: The Queensland Mathematics Syllabus – Janeen Lamb & Gayle Spry

Publishing in Mathematics Education: A Matter of Gender? – Gilah C. Leder & Helen J. Forgasz

Enhancement of Fractions from Playing a Game – Ya Ling Lee

A Hierarchy of Strategies for Solving Linear Equations – Chris Linsell

Using Web-Based Mathematical Interactive Exercises and Exploratory Investigations: The Possibilities and Pitfalls – Esther Yook-Kin Loong

Young Children’s Explorations of Average in an Inquiry Classroom – Katie Makar & Debra McPhee

Concepts, Connections and Commitment: Locating Mathematics in a Typical School Day – Fiona McDiarmid & Ruth Pritchard

Achieving in Mathematics Contested Spaces and Voices – Colleen McMurchy-Pilkington & Hannah Bartholomew

The Option of Selecting Higher-level Mathematics Courses: Transitional Tensions – Greg McPhan & John Pegg

There are More Than Part-Whole Strategies at Work in Understanding Non-Equal-Parts Fraction-Area-Models – Annie Mitchell & Marj Horne

Evolving Mathematics Classroom Assessment Cultures – Rohani Mohamad

Numeracy Test Item Readability During Transition from Pre-School to School – Judith A. Mousley

At Home With Numeracy: Empowering Parents to be Active Participants in their Child’s Numeracy Development – Tracey Muir

Teacher Perception and Motivational Style – Hannah Newman & Jenni Way

Applying Mathematical Knowledge in a Design-Based Interdisciplinary Project – Kit Ee Dawn Ng & Gloria Stillman

A Professional Learning Tool to Help Stimulate Mathematics Teachers to Reflect on their Pedagogical Practice – Richard O’Donovan

Relative Values of Curriculum Topics in Undergraduate Mathematics in an Integrated Technology Environment – Greg Oates

Analogical Reasoning Errors in Mathematics at Junior College Level – Wai-Kit Alwyn Pang & Jaguthsing Dindyal

Highlighting the Similarities and Differences of the Mathematical Knowledge and Strategies of Year 4 Students – Catherine Pearn

Reconceptualising Agency in a Senior Mathematics Classroom – Trevor Redmond & Joanne Sheehy

Scaffolding for Learning Equation Solving – Daphne Robson, Walt Abell & Therese Boustead

Making Sense of Partitive and Quotitive Division: A Snapshot of Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge – Anne Roche & Doug Clarke

Lesson Study: An Effective School-Based Teacher Professional Learning Model for Teachers of Mathematics – Peter Sanders

The Development of Fraction Ideas Among Students with Disabilities – Rebecca Seah

Investigating Students’ Numerical Misconceptions in Algebra – Vicki Steinle, Eugene Gvozdenko, Beth Price, Kaye Stacey & Robyn Pierce

Probing Some Key Junctures in Relational Thinking: A Study of Year 6 and Year 7 Students from Australia and China – Max Stephens & Wang Xu

Linear Algebra Snapshots through APOS and Embodied, Symbolic and Formal Worlds of Mathematical Thinking – Sepideh Stewart & Mike Thomas  

Softly, Softly: Curriculum Change in Applications and Modelling in the Senior Secondary Curriculum in Queensland – Gloria Stillman & Peter Galbraith

Investigating Feelings towards Mathematics among Chinese Kindergarten Children – Huayu Sun

Development of an Instrument for Ways of Using Graphics Calculators: Preliminary Findings – Hazel Tan

Multimodal Use of Semiotic Resources in the Construction of Antiderivative – Michael O. J. Thomas, Caroline Yoon & Tommy Dreyfus

Learning About Building Mathematics Instruction from Students’ Reasoning: A Professional Development Study – Jana Visnovska & Paul Cobb

Exploring the Identity of a Pre-Service Teacher: Communal Processes During the Practicum – Margaret Walshaw

Probing Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Statistics: “How will Tom get to school tomorrow?” – Jane Watson, Rosemary Callingham & Erica Nathan

Reflection in Self-Assessed Online Discussion – Jenni Way

Counting On 2008: Diagnostic and Remedial Mathematics Program for Middle Years Students – Allan White

Growth of Pre-service Teachers’ Knowledge and Teaching Ideas About Decimals and Fractions: The Case of Vivi – Wanty Widjaja & Kaye Stacey

Engaged to Learn Pedagogy: Theoretically Identified Optimism Building Situations – Gaye Williams

“Better You Than Me”: Mathematics Anxiety and Bibliotherapy in Primary Teacher Professional Learning – Sue Wilson

What Did My Students Do When They Did Their Homework Last Weekend? – Regina M.F. Wong & Michael J. Lawson

Modelling the Height of the Antiderivative – Caroline Yoon, Tommy Dreyfus & Michael O. J. Thomas

The “Back to Basics” Dilemma for Middle School Mathematics Teachers – Shirley Yates

Teaching Multi-digit Multiplication using Array-based Materials – Jenny Young-Loveridge & Judith Mills

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

A Narrative Study on the Use of Computer Software and Hands-on Activities in Developing Young Children’s Mathematical Minds – Po Wah Chan & Tse Lok Tin

Applying a Systems Approach to Understanding Children’s Performance in System Assessments – Patricia Morley

Brain-burn, Swirling Numbers, an Evil Textbook: Accessing Students’ Beliefs About Maths Through Their Drawings – Catherine Solomon, Alison Gilmore, John Hannah & Mick Grimley

Development and Validation of Mathematical Thinking Assessment Framework – Tee Yong Hwa & Chap Sam Lim

Diagnostic Assessment of Mathematics in Schools – Majeda Awawdeh

Enactments of Instructional Leadership of Mathematics in Primary Schools – Joanna Higgins & Linda Bonne

Fine Tuning the Teaching Methods Used for Second Year University Mathematics Based on Student Perceptions about Mathematics – Leng Leng Lim, David Thiel, Jeung-Hwan Doh & Debra Bernhardt

First Year Pre-service Teachers’ Patterns of Responses to a Mathematical Skills and Knowledge Test – Sharyn Livy

From Foot to Shoe Project – Lai Ha Freda Yuen

Historical Evolution and Student Perspectives on Large Numbers – Mala Nataraj

Inquiring into Preservice Secondary School Teachers’ Generalisation Strategies in a Quadratic Generalising Task – Boon Liang Chua & Celia Hoyles

Instrumental Genesis as a Theoretical Framework to Examine Probability Simulations – Anthony Bill

Lead Teacher Role: Keeping the Momentum – Anne Milburn, Viv Thompson & Deb Gibbs

Lesson Starter Activities in New Zealand Secondary Mathematics Lessons – Liping Ding & Margaret Walshaw

Middle School Students’ Responses to Two-tier Tasks – Shajahan Haja & David Clarke

Models of Professional Learning in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education: Experienced Critical Friends Rate the Impact of Models on Teacher and Student Learning – Pamela Hammond, Doug Clarke & Ken Smith

Oh Yea, But It’s Not a Real Dice – Anthony Bill

One-on-one Numeracy Intervention: A Pilot Study – Steve Thornton, Gina Galluzzo & Mary Quinane

Primary Students’ Mindset, Mathematics Self-efficacy, and Mathematics Achievement: Investigating the Relationships – Linda Bonne

Streaming for Mathematics in Victorian Secondary Schools – Helen Forgasz & Hazel Tan

Students’ Performance on Two Task Structures: Two Case Studies – Shajahan Haja & David Clarke

Teachers’ Perceptions Towards School-based Assessment: The Malaysian Context – Tee Yong Hwa & Chap Sam Lim

Teaching Algebra Using a Multifaceted Variable Approach: What Do Year 7 Students Understand about Variables? – Salma Tahir, Mike Mitchelmore & Michael Cavanagh

Thai Students’ Perceptions of Cooperative Learning in the Mathematics Classroom – Tippawan Nuntrakune

The Development of SAPP: Self-Analysis Professional Portfolio – Anne Scott, Philip Clarkson & Andrea McDonough

The Effect of Real-life Context in Learning Complex Concepts in Mathematics: A Cognitive Load Perspective – Majeda Awawdeh

The Impact of the Secondary Numeracy Project on Mathematics Teaching in Senior Secondary Schools – Roger Harvey

The MAaCAS Project – Mathematical Applications and Computer Algebra Systems – Vincent Geiger

The Times (Tables): They Are a Changing – Brenda Sherley & Sandi Tait-McCutcheon

Towards Mathematically Significant Classrooms: A Video Study – Steve Thornton & Kathryn Moyle

Using Collective Argumentation to Teach Mathematics – Margaret Marshman

Using the Model Method to Solve Simple Word Problems – Suat Khoh Lim-Teo & Bee Kwang Poh

Whose Mathematics? – Judy Bailey

‘It Just Feels Different!’ Engaging Students in Mathematics Using Virtual Grand Prix Racing – Angela Jones & Ruth Pritchard

 

ROUND TABLES

Captivate – Video Screen Capture Technology for Data Collection – Anthony Bill

Developing Communication and Participation Patterns in Mathematics with Diverse Learners – Roberta Hunter, Glenda Anthony, Zain Thompson & Heather Howe

Successful Ways of Enhancing Achievement of Maori Students in Mainstream Settings – Honor Ronowicz & Tracey Muir

Teaching the Mathematics of Gambling to Reinforce Responsible Attitudes Towards Gambling – Robert Peard

The Effect of Reform-Oriented and Other Mathematics Curricula on Students’ College Mathematics Placement Test Scores – Jon D. Davis & Jeffrey C. Shih