KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Bringing research on students’ understanding into the classroom through formative assessment – Kaye Stacey
Problem finding, problem posing, problem solving: Mathematics education research – Yesterday, today, tomorrow – Gloria Stillman
The mathematical brain and numeracy – Brian Butterworth
Working at the intersection of research and practice: A perspective on the study and improvement of mathematics lessons – Yoshinori Shimizu
PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS AWARD
Changes in students’ notation when fractions exceed one-whole – Peter Gould
SYMPOSIA
Learning the Work of Ambitious Mathematics Teaching – Glenda Anthony and Roberta Hunter
Using Instructional Activities to Learn the Work of Ambitious Mathematics in Pre-service Teacher Education Settings – Roberta Hunter, Jodie Hunter & Glenda Anthony
Coaching Pre-service Teachers for Teaching Mathematics: The Views of Students – Robin Averill, Michael Drake & Roger HarveY
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Implementing the Japanese Problem-Solving Lesson Structure – Susie Groves
Mathematical Tasks and Learning Goals: Examples from Japanese Lesson Study – Brian Doig
Primary Teachers’ Algebraic Thinking: Example from Lesson Study – Colleen Vale
Creating Teacher Communities of Inquiry Through Lesson Study – Wanty Widjaja
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Four Factors to Consider in Helping Low Achievers in Mathematics – Leong, Yew Hoong, Yap, Sook Fwe, & Tay, Eng Guan
Helping low achievers develop a problem solving disposition – Quek, Khiok Seng, Yap, Sook Fwe, & Tong, Cherng Luen
Positive feelings towards the learning of mathematics for low achievers – Tong, Cheurng Luen, Leong, Yew Hoong, & Quek, Khiok Seng
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The Odd Couple: The Australian NAPLAN and Singaporean PSLE – Jane Greenlees
The Classic Word Problem: The Influence of Direct Teaching – Tracy Logan & Siew Yin Ho
Students’ Performance on a Symmetry Task – Siew Yin Ho & Tracy Logan
Cross-country Comparisons of Student Sense Making: The Development of a Mathematics Processing Framework – Tom Lowrie
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Inquiry-based learning in mathematics: Designing collaborative research with schools – Katie Makar & Shelley Dole
Achievements and challenges encountered by classroom teachers involved in a research project: A reflection – Sue Allmond and Karen Huntly
Guided inquiry as a model for curricular resources in mathematics – Christine Debritz and Rhonda Horne
Building relationships between stakeholders and researchers: People, persistence and passion – Rhonda Horne & Katie Makar
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Noticing young children’s mathematical strengths and agency – Sue Dockett & Wendy Goff
Researchers noticing young children’s mathematics – Barbara Clarke
Visual stimuli that prompt young children to notice their mathematical thinking: Two researchers’ experiences – Amy MacDonald & Jill Cheeseman
Preschool and school educators noticing young children’s mathematics – Bob Perry
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Learning from the implementers in a design experiment – Toh, Tin Lam, Dindyal, Jaguthsing, & Tay, Eng Guan
Fine-Tuning in a Design Experiment – Ho, Foo Him, Toh, Pee Choon & Toh, Tin Lam
Scaffolding Cards: A Strategy for Facilitating Groups in Problem Solving – Toh, Pee Choon, Dindyal, Jaguthsing, & Ho, Foo Him
RESEARCH PAPERS
Probing Students’ Numerical Misconceptions in School Algebra – Zarina Akhtar & Vicki Steinle
Mapping Students’ Spoken Conceptions of Equality – Megan Anakin
Mathematics Teachers’ Perceptions of their Students’ Mathematical Competence: Relations to Mathematics Achievement, Affect, and Engagement in Singapore and Australia – Shaljan Areepattamannil & Berinderjeet Kaur
Integrating iPads into Primary Mathematics Pedagogies: An Exploration of Two Teachers’ Experiences – Catherine Attard
Respectful and Responsive Pedagogies for Mathematics and Statistics – Robin Averill & Megan Clarke
Using a Modified Form of Lesson Study to Develop Students’ Relational Thinking in Years 4, 5 & 6 – Lei Bao & Max Stephens
Technology Prompts New Understandings: The Case of Equality – Caroline Bardini, Reinhard Oldenburg, Kaye Stacey & Robyn Pierce
Teacher Identity and Numeracy: Developing an Analytic Lens for Understanding Numeracy Teacher Identity – Anne Bennison & Merrilyn Goos
Translation of Data from a Real-life Context into Graphical Representations – Casandra Blagdanic & Mohan Chinnappan
Teaching Roles in Technology-Rich Teaching and Learning Environments (TRTLE’s) – Jill Brown
Identification of Hierarchies of Student Learning about Percentages using Rasch Analysis – Joan Burfitt
Use of Learning Trajectories to Examine Pre-service Teachers’ Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching Area and Perimeter – Barbara Butterfield, Tricia Forrester, Faye McCallum & Mohan Chinnappan
Gender Differences in Children’s Mathematics Achievement: Perspectives from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children – Colin Carmichael
Relationship Between Mathematics Anxiety and Attitude Towards Mathematics among Indian Students – Mini Chaman & Rosemary Callingham
Using Photographs and Diagrams to Test Young Children’s Mass Thinking – Jill Cheeseman & Andrea McDonough
Teachers’ Views of the Challenging Elements of a Task – Jill Cheeseman, Doug Clarke, Anne Roche & Karen Wilson
Posing Problems to Understand Children’s Learning of Fractions – Lu Pien Cheng
Educating Boris: An Examination of Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Mathematics Teacher Educators – Helen Chick & Kim Beswick
Translating Between and Within Representations: Mathematics As Lived Experiences and Interactions – Philemon Chigeza
Productive Mathematical Noticing: What It Is and Why It Matters – Ban Heng Choy
Designing Tasks to Promote and Assess Mathematical Transfer in Primary School Children – Julie Clark, Shaileigh Page & Steve Thornton
Accelerating the Mathematics Learning of Low Socio-Economic Status Junior Secondary Students: An Early Report – Tom Cooper, David Nutchey & Edlyn Grant
Thoughts Behind the Actions: Exploring Preservice Teachers’ Mathematical Content Knowledge – Leah Daniel & Josephine Balatti
Sticking With It or Doing It Quickly: What Performances Do We Encourage In Our Mathematics Learners? – Lisa Darragh
Pre-service Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Reflections on Good and Bad Mathematics Teaching – Hem Dayal
When Practice Doesn’t Lead to Retrieval: An Analysis of Children’s Errors with Simple Addition – Celeste de Villiers & Sarah Hopkins
Making Connections Between Multiplication and Division – Ann Downton
How Heavy is my Rock? An Exploration of Students’ Understanding of the Measurement of Weight – Michael Drake
How Do Adults Perceive, Analyse and Measure Slope? – Bruce Duncan & Helen Chick
Great Expectations: Teaching Mathematics in English to Indigenous Language Speaking Students – Cris Edmonds-Wathen
Beginning Inference in Fourth Grade: Exploring Variation in Measurement – Lyn English & Jane Watson
Scaffolding the Mathematics Learning of Low-attaining Students Through Whole Class Discussions – Sarah Ferguson
Inquiry-Based Argumentation in Primary Mathematics: Reflecting on Evidence – Jill Fielding-Wells
The Make it Count Project: NAPLAN Achievement Evaluation – Helen Forgasz, Gilah Leder & Jennifer Halliday
Students ‘Holding’ the Moment: Learning Mathematics in an Inquiry Mathematics Classroom – Kym Fry
Students and Real-World Applications: Still a Challenging Mix – Peter Galbraith
Students Using Digital Technologies to Produce Screencasts That Support Learning in Mathematics – Linda Galligan & Carola Hobohm
Exploring the Demands and Opportunities for Numeracy in the Australian Curriculum: English – Vince Geiger, Merrilyn Goos, Shelley Dole, Helen Forgasz & Anne Bennison
Children’s Mathematical Knowledge Prior to Starting School – Ann Gervasoni & Bob Perry
Longitudinal Progress of 6-year-old Students Who Participated in an “Extending Mathematical Understanding” Mathematics Intervention Program – Ann Gervasoni, Linda Parish, Carole Livesey, Melissa Croswell, Kate Bevan, Teresa Hadden & Kathie Turkenburg
Measuring Mathematics Teacher Educators’ Knowledge of Technology Integrated Teaching: Instrument Development – Seyum Tekeher Getenet & Kim Beswick
Principals’ Views on the Importance of Numeracy as Children Start Primary School – Wendy Goff, Sue Dockett & Bob Perry
Mathematics Education as a Practice: A Theoretical Position – Peter Grootenboer & Christine Edwards-Groves
Apps for Mathematics Learning: A Review of ‘Educational’ Apps from the iTunes App Store – Kate Highfield & Kristy Goodwin
What Teachers See When Watching Others Teach – Louise Hodgson
Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Choice of Mathematical Examples: Formative Analysis of Lesson Plan Data – Ray Huntley
Mathematical Engagement Skills – Naomi Ingram
Early-Years Swimming: Creating Opportunities for Adding Mathematical Capital to Under 5 – Robyn Jorgensen
Relationships of Out-of-School-Time Mathematics Lessons to Mathematical Literacy in Singapore and Australia – Berinderjeet Kaur & Shaljan Areepattamannil
Maths Education: Is There An App For That? – Kevin Larkin
Transactional Distance Theory (TDT): An Approach to Enhancing Knowledge and Reducing Anxiety of Pre-Service Teachers Studying a Mathematics Education Course Online – Kevin Larkin & Romina Jamieson-Proctor
Foundation Content Knowledge: What Do Pre-Service Teachers Need to Know? – Chris Linsell & Megan Anakin
Pre-service Teachers’ Responses for Ratio and Proportion Items – Sharyn Livy & Sandra Herbert
From Curriculum to Workplace Requirements: Do They ‘Match’? – Gregor Lomas & Kelvin Mills
Primary School Teachers’ Perceptions of Mathematical Reasoning – Esther Yook-Kin Loong, Colleen Vale, Leicha Bragg & Sandra Herbert
Pre-Service Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Implications for teaching – Margaret Marshman & Glorianne Porter
Does an Ability to Pattern Indicate That Our Thinking is Mathematical? – Catherine McCluskey, Michael Mitchelmore & Joanne Mulligan
When a Mathematics Support Pilot Program Fails Miserably: Looking for Answers – Keith McNaught
Student Preferences in the Design of Worked Solutions in Undergraduate Mathematics – David Mendiolea
Using Semiotic Resources to Build Images When Teaching the Part-Whole Model of Fractions – Paula Mildenhall
Insight into Subtraction from Large-Scale Assessment Data – Patricia Morley
Helpwithmaths.com: Students’ Use of Online Mathematical Resources – Tracey Muir
Tracking Structural Development Through Data Modelling in Highly Able Grade 1 Students – Joanne Mulligan, Kerry Hodge, Michael Mitchelmore & Lyn English
Young Children Talking in Mathematics: What is the Point of That? – Carol Murphy
How Pre-Service Teachers Integrate Knowledge of Students’ Difficulties in Understanding the Concept of the Arithmetic Mean Into Their Pedagogy – Theodosia Prodromou
Coordination of Fractional Quantities: Cueing of Resources, Constraints, and Effect of Numeric Structure – Ajay Ramful & Rajeev Nenduradu
Pre-Service Teachers’ Understanding of Measures of Centre: When the Meaning Gets Lost? – Robyn Reaburn
Students’ Understanding of Conditional Probability on Entering University – Robyn Reaburn
Using Tablet PCs For Active Learning: Learning From Others’ Mistakes – Daphne Robson & Dave Kennedy
Entering the ‘New Frontier’ of Mathematics Assessment: Designing and Trialling the PVAT-O (online) – Angela Rogers
Overcoming Challenges of Being an In-Field Mathematics Teacher in Indigenous Secondary School Classrooms – Satwant Sandhu, Gillian Kidman & Tom Cooper
What Financial Dilemmas Reveal About Students’ Social and Mathematical Understanding – Carly Sawatzki
iPads: Improving Numeracy Learning in the Early Years – Peta Spencer
Classroom Culture, Challenging Mathematical Tasks and Student Persistence – Peter Sullivan, Amanda Aulert, Alli Lehmann, Brendan Hislop, Owen Shepherd & Alan Stubbs
Teachers’ Decisions About Mathematics Tasks When Planning – Peter Sullivan, David Clarke, Doug Clarke & Anne Roche
Students Understanding of Everyday English and Kimberley Kriol in Mathematics Classroom – Kaye Treacy
PCK and Average – Jane Watson & Rosemary Callingham
The Influence of Mathematical Beliefs on Low-Achieving Adult Learners – Damon Whitten
High Performance, Confidence and Disinclination to Explore: A Case Study – Gaye Williams
Mature Age Pre-Service Teachers’ Mathematics Anxiety and Factors Impacting on University Retention – Sue Wilson
Mathematics Networks and Curriculum Concepts – Geoff Woolcott
Pre-Service Teachers’ Concept Image for Circle and Ellipse – Vince Wright
Constructing a Frame of Cube: Connecting 3D Shapes with Direction, Location and Movement – Andy Yeh
Teachers’ Perspectives Regarding the Decline in Boys’ Participation in Post-Compulsory Rigorous Mathematics Subjects – Michael Easey
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
“Am I a Maths Type of Person”: Responses of Top Stream Year 8 Students – Gavin Little
“Teacher’s Dilemma” In Using The Internet As A Mathematical Resource In Multilingual Settings – Sitti Maesuri Patahuddin
Accelerated Learning in Mathematics – Fiona Fox & Komathi Kolandai-Matchett
How Is “Teaching as Inquiry” Impacted By Cross-Grouping In Mathematics? – Rosemary Golds
Impact on Identity and Self-Efficacy of Primary Pre-Service Teachers: Experiences In the Mathematics Practicum Classroom – Karen McDaid
Mentoring Undergraduate Primary Education Students in The Mathematics Classroom? The Development of A New Model To Help Reduce Mathematics Anxiety – Timothy Perkins
Narrative Inquiry and the Formation of Mathematics Identity – Gavin Little
Student Engagement in Mathematics: Switching Students on to Mathematics – Janette Bobis, Jenni Way, Judy Anderson & Maryam Khosronejad
Students’ Preferences When Learning How To Use Advanced Calculators To Solve Mathematics Problems – Hazel Tan
The Implementation of the Patterns and Early Algebra Preschool (PEAP) Professional Development (PD) Program in Indigenous Communities across New South Wales – Marina Papic, Kate Highfield, Joanne Mulligan, Judith McKay-Tempest, Deborah Garret, Monique Mandarakas, & Elizabeth Granite
Utilizing Open-Source Dynamic Mathematics Software in Teaching Geometry – Mailizar
What Does Numeracy Mean to Teachers of Subjects Other Than Mathematics? – Elizabeth Ferme
Worksheets vs. Practical Activities in Mathematics in the Primary Classroom – Bilinda Offen
POSTERS
Designing a detailed instructional framework: A teaching experiment in multiplication and division – David Ellemor-Collins
Effects of using different types of display and rules on pre-schoolers patterning recognition in Malaysia: A preliminary study – Sharifah Norul Akmar Syed Zamri & Nor Adlina Fadil
Exploring secondary school mathematics teachers’ understanding of statistical graphs – Ajeevsing Bholoa & Leena Ramkalawon
Investigating the effect of the second-order use of context on Mathematics literacy tasks – Felipe Almuna-Salgado & Caroline Bardini
Pattern-based learning in Linear Algebra – Rosemarie Mohais
Testing a Framework of Cognitive Ability and Student’s Thinking Process in Geometric Argumentation – Tsu-Nan Lee & Caroline Bardini
ROUND TABLES
Are We Bored Yet? Raising Attainment And Maintaining Interest – Kim Beswick & Rhonda Faragher
Assessment Standards in Undergraduate Mathematics – Carmel Coady, Deborah King & Cristina Varsavsky
National Testing: Is it valid – Fiona McDiarmid & Deb Gibbs
Students’ Transition from Number to Algebra – Christina Lee & Christine Ormond
Teacher Judgements in Mathematics – Christine Hardie
