KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

Reform under attack – Forty Years of Working on Better Mathematics Education thrown on the Scrapheap? No Way! – Marja van den Heuvel-Panhuizen

Structured Failing: Reshaping a Mathematical Future for Marginalised Learners – Robyn Jorgensen (Zevenbergen)

Technology, Research and Practice in Mathematics Education -Barry Kissane

SYMPOSIA

Maths in the Kimberley Project: Evaluating the Pedagogical Model – Robyn Jorgensen (Zevenbergen), Peter Grootenboer, Peter Sullivan & Richard Niesche

Playing with Mathematics: Play in Early Childhood as a Context for Mathematical Learning – Janette Bobis, Eva deVries, Kate Highfield, Robert P. Hunting, Shiree Lee, Bob Perry, Louise Thomas & Elizabeth Warren

Problem Solving in the School Curriculum from a Design Perspective – Toh Tin Lam, Leong Yew Hoong, Jaguthsing Dindyal & Quek Khiok Seng

RESEARCH PAPERS

Making Sense of Critical Mathematics Teaching – Annica Andersson

Perceived Professional Learning Needs of Numeracy Coaches – Leonie Anstey & Barbara Clarke

Students’ Experiences of Mathematics During the Transition from Primary to Secondary School – Catherine Attard

Percentages: The Effect of Problem Structure, Number Complexity and Calculation Format – Wendy Baratta, Beth Price, Kaye Stacey, Vicki Steinle & Eugene Gvozdenko

Why do Disadvantaged Filipino Children Find Word Problems in English Difficult? – Debbie Bautista & Joanne Mulligan

Two Test Items to Explore High School Students’ Beliefs of Sample Size when Sampling from Large Populations – Anthony Bill, Sally Henderson & John Penman

The Impact of a Developmental Framework in Number on Primary Teachers’ Classroom Practice – Janette Bobis

Language Negotiation In a Multilingual Mathematics Classroom: An Analysis – Arindam Bose & Manojendu Choudhury

The “Number Proficiency Index”: Establishing the Starting Point for Mathematical Instruction in High School – Phil Brockbank

Scratching Below the Surface: Mathematics through an Alternative Digital Lens? – Nigel Calder & Merilyn Taylor

Using Developmental Frameworks to Support Curriculum Outcomes – Rosemary Callingham & John Pegg

Students’ Frames of Reference and Their Assessments of Interest for Statistical Literacy – Colin Carmichael

Aspects of Teachers’ Knowledge for Helping Students Learn About Ratio – Helen Chick

Teachers’ Extent of the Use of Particular Task Types in Mathematics and Choices Behind That Use – Doug Clarke & Anne Roche

Students as Decoders of Graphics in Mathematics – Carmel M. Diezmann & Tom Lowrie

Challenging Multiplicative Problems Can Elicit Sophisticated Strategies – Ann Downton

The Impact of Two Teachers’ Use of Specific Scaffolding Practices on Low-attaining Upper Primary Students – Sarah Ferguson & Andrea McDonough

The Predominance of Procedural Knowledge in Fractions – Tricia Forrester & Mohan Chinnappan

Becoming More Numerate: The Journey of Tania – Linda Galligan

Bridging the Numeracy Gap for Students in Low SES Communities: The Power of a Whole School Approach – Ann Gervasoni & Linda Parish with Cait Upton, Teresa Hadden, Kathie Turkenburg, Kate Bevan, Carole Livesey, Deirdre Thompson, Melissa Croswell and Julie Southwell

Auditing the Numeracy Demands of the Middle Years Curriculum – Merrilyn Goos, Vince Geiger & Shelley Dole

The Terminology of Mathematics Assessment – Jane Greenlees 

Mathematics Teachers: Negotiating Professional and Discipline Identities – Peter Grootenboer & Julie Ballantyne

A Network Analysis of Concept Maps of Triangle Concepts – Jin Haiyue & Wong Khoon Yoong

Impact of Context and Representation on Year 10 Students’ Expression of Conceptions of Rate – Sandra Herbert

Year 11 Advanced Mathematics: Hearing from Students who Buck the Trend – Kai Fai Ho

‘You might say you’re 9 years old but you’re actually B years old because you’re always getting older’: Facilitating Young Students’ Understanding of Variables – Jodie Hunter

Coming to ‘Know’ Mathematics through ‘Acting, Talking and Doing’ Mathematics – Roberta Hunter

The Mathematical Needs of Urban Indigenous Primary Children: A Western Australian Snapshot – Chris Hurst & Len Sparrow

Student Attitude, Student Understanding and Mathematics Anxiety – Michelle Jennison & Kim Beswick

Dispersing Mathematics Curriculum Leadership in Remote Aboriginal Communities – Robyn Jorgensen (Zevenbergen) & Richard Niesche

Upper Primary School Students’ Algebraic Thinking – Natcha Kamol & Yeap Ban Har

Learning Mathematical Concepts Through Authentic Learning – Koh Noi Keng & Low Hwee Kian

A Teacher Pair Approach to Adopting Effective Numeracy Teaching Practice – Janeen Lamb & Vince Geiger

Assessment for Learning Tasks and the Peer Assessment Process – Lorraine Lauf & Shelley Dole

I liked it till Pythagoras: The Public’s Views of Mathematics – Gilah C. Leder & Helen J. Forgasz

Examinations in the Final Year of Transition to Mathematical Methods Computer Algebra System (CAS) – David Leigh-Lancaster, Magdalena Les & Michael Evans

Mathematics Attitudes and Achievement of Junior College Students in Singapore – Lim Siew Yee

A ‘knowledge quartet’ Used to Identify a Second-Year Pre-service Teacher’s Primary Mathematical Content Knowledge – Sharyn Livy

Beyond the Curriculum: The Mathematical Beliefs of Pre-service Primary Teachers in Hong Kong – Wing Yee Lo & Judy Anderson

Web-based Mathematics: Student Perspectives – Esther Yook-Kin Loong

The Relationship between the Number Sense and Problem-Solving Abilities of Year 7 Students – Jemmy Louange & Jack Bana

Teachers’ Perceptions of Geometry Instruction and the Learning Environment in Years 9-10 ESL Classrooms – Rinna K. Ly & John A. Malone

Young Children’s Measurement Knowledge: Understandings about Comparison at the Commencement of Schooling – Amy MacDonald

Developing a Framework for the Selection of Picture Books to Promote Early Mathematical Development – Jennifer Marston

Professional Standards and Professional Learning: A Position Paper – Karen McDaid

Co-Constructing New Classroom Practices: Professional Development Based upon the Principles of Lesson Study – Sue McDonald

Teacher Change in Response to a Professional Learning Project – Andrea McDonough, Philip Clarkson & Anne Scott

Pre-service Students’ Responses to Being Tested on their Primary School Mathematical Knowledge – Tamsin Meaney & Troels Lange

Computational Estimation in the Primary School: A Single Case Study of One Teacher’s Involvement in a Professional Learning Intervention – Paula Mildenhall, Mark Hackling & Paul Swan

Gap Thinking in Fraction Pair Comparisons is not Whole Number Thinking: Is This What Early Equivalence Thinking Sounds Like? – Annie Mitchell & Marj Horne

Connecting the Points: Cognitive Conflict and Decimal Magnitude – Bruce Moody

A Decade of MERGA Theses – Judith A. Mousley

Using Video-Stimulated Recall as a Tool for Reflecting on the Teaching of Mathematics – Tracey Muir

Implementing a Pattern and Structure Mathematics Awareness Program (PASMAP) in Kindergarten – Joanne T. Mulligan, Lyn D. English, Michael C. Mitchelmore & Greg Robertson

Partial Metacognitive Blindness in Collaborative Problem Solving – Kit Ee Dawn Ng

Changing our Perspective on Space: Place Mathematics as a Human Endeavour – Kay Owens

Experiences of Learning and Teaching Mathematics: Using Activity Theory to Understand Tensions in Practice – Shaileigh Page & Julie Clarke

Facilitating the Development of Proportional Reasoning through Teaching Ratio – Linda Parish

An Ethnographic Intervention using the Five Characteristics of Effective Teacher Professional Development – Sitti Maesuri Patahuddin

Exploring the Relationship between Mathematical Modelling and Classroom Discourse – Trevor Redmond, Joanne Sheehy & Raymond Brown

Assessing the Number Knowledge of Children in the First and Second Grade of an Indonesian School – Rumi Rumiati & Robert (Bob) Wright

Enactivism and Figural Apprehension in the Context of Pattern Generalisation – Duncan Samson

Mathematics Registers in Indigenous Languages: Experiences from South Africa – Marc Schafer

Using Concept Cartoons to Access Student Beliefs about Preferred Approaches to Mathematics Learning and Teaching – Matthew Sexton

How to Build Powerful Learning Trajectories for Relational Thinking in the Primary School Years – Max Stephens & Dian Armanto

Students’ Opinions about Characteristics of Their Desired Mathematics Lessons – Peter Sullivan, Doug Clarke & Helen O’Shea

The Multifaceted Variable Approach: Selection of Method in Solving Simple Linear Equations – Salma Tahir & Michael Cavanagh

Interactive Whiteboards and all that Jazz: Analysing Classroom Activity with Interactive Technologies – Howard Tanner, Sonia Jones, Gary Beauchamp & Steve Kennewell

One on One Numeracy Intervention: A Pilot Project in Low SES Communities – Steve Thornton, Gina Galluzzo, Mary Quinane & Debbie Taylor

Critical Moments in Learning Mathematics: First Year Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Perspectives – Stephen Tobias, Penelope Serow & Martin Schmude

Now I’m teaching the children: Changing from Assessment of Learning to Assessment for Learning in Fiji – Kaye Treacy, Poniparte Tiko Fiji, Sarita Harish & Prabha Nairn

Student Centred Approaches: Teachers’ Learning and Practice – Colleen Vale, Mary Weaven, Anne Davies & Neil Hooley

Utilising Year Three NAPLAN Results to Improve Queensland Teachers’ Mathematical Pedagogical Content Knowledge – Eduarda van Klinken

Documenting the Learning of Teacher Communities Across Changes in their Membership – Jana Visnovska

The Researcher’s Self in Research: Confronting Issues about Knowing and Understanding Others – Margaret Walshaw

Indigenous Children’s Ability to Pattern as They Enter Kindergarten/Pre-prep Settings: An Exploratory Study – Elizabeth Warren & Jodie Miller

Biased Sampling and PCK: The Case of the Marijuana Problem – Jane M. Watson & Erica L. Nathan

Student Change Associated with Professional Learning in Mathematics – Jane Watson, Natalie Brown, Kim Beswick, Rosemary Callingham & Suzie Wright

Counting On in the Middle Years – Allan Leslie White

Modelling the Cooling of Coffee: Insights From a Preliminary Study in Indonesia – Wanty Widjaja

Abstracting by Constructing and Revising a ‘Partially Correct Construct’: A Case Study – Gaye Williams

Pre-service Teachers Constructing Positive Mathematical Identities: Positing a Grounded Theory Approach – Sue Wilson

‘I always feel more confident when I know where things are going’: How do Pre-service Teachers Engage with Mathematics Curriculum Documentation? – Sue Wilson & Jane McChesney

Algebraic Thinking: A Problem-Solving Approach – Will Windsor

Equivalent Fractions: Developing a Pathway of Students’ Acquisition of Knowledge and Understanding – Monica Wong

Three Primary School Students’ Cognition about 3D Rotation in a Virtual Reality Learning Environment – Andy Yeh

Socio-economic Background, Senior Secondary Mathematics, and Post-secondary Pathways – Eng Yeoh & David Leigh-Lancaster

Two Decades of Mathematics Education Reform in New Zealand: What Impact on the Attitudes of Teacher Education Students? – Jenny Young-Loveridge

The influence of the mathematics class on middle school students’ interest for statistical literacy – Colin Carmichael

Walking the Talk: Translation of Mathematical Content Knowledge to Practice – Barbara Butterfield & Mohan Chinnappan

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

A Survey of Instructional Leaders in Primary Schools: Emerging Patterns in Numeracy Leadership – Joanna Higgins & Linda Bonne

Aboriginal Independent Community Schools Numeracy Strategy – Daniel Pinchas, Renae Small, Rebecca Youdale, Shirley Riley
& Kaye Treacy

An Alternative Pathway to University Mathematics – Nicholas Crouch – Calculator Technologies and Females’ Mathematics Learning: A Pilot Study – Janelle Hill

 Elementary Students’ Understanding of Variable: The Role of Problem Type and Representation – J. Matt Switzer

Lesson Study as Research and Professional Development for Practitioners – Jodie Hunter

Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Ability to Communicate Mathematics Concepts Effectively – Chua Kwee Gek

Preparing a New Generation of High School Mathematics Teachers – Joanne E. Goodell

Primary Students’ Theories of Intelligence, Mathematics Self-Efficacy and Achievement: Analysis of the Initial Data – Linda Bonne

Singaporean Senior Secondary Students’ Ways of Using Graphics Calculators – Hazel Tan

Teaching and Learning in an Interactive Multimedia E-Learning Environment – Sharon London, Mike Mitchelmore & Michael Cavanagh

The Effectiveness of a Dynamic Professional Development Model Using an Online Mathematics Learning System – Sharon London, Joanne Mulligan, Michael Cavanagh & Matthew Bower

Values Operating in Effective Mathematics Lessons in Singapore: Reflections from Classroom Observations – Ho Siew Yin

ROUND TABLES

K-10 National Mathematics Curriculum Implementation: Implications for Research and Teacher Education – Merrilyn Goos, Robyn Jorgensen, Christelle Plummer,  Glenys Reid,  Peter Sullivan & Gaye Williams

Magnifying Misalignment of Student Data Across a Range of Assessment Tools to Inform Future Learning Goals – Marie Hirst & Anuja Singh

Make it Count: An Evidence Base to support Numeracy, Mathematics and Indigenous Learners – Will Morony & Caty Morris

Online Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers – Brooke Evans,  Patricia McKenna, Don Gilmore & James Loats

Targeted Learning: A Successful Approach – Linda Cheeseman, Bina Kachwalla & Marilyn Holmes

Teaching Mathematics for an Ethical Citizenry – Helen Forgasz