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
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