2015 Conference Proceedings

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

Exploring a Structure for Mathematics Lessons that Foster Problem Solving and Reasoning – Peter Sullivan, Nadia Walker, Chris Borcek, & Mick Rennie

Mathematics Education as a Field of Research: Have We Become Too Comfortable? – Tom Lowrie

Researching and Doing Professional Development Using a Shared Discursive Resource and an Analytic Tool – Jill Adler

 

BETH SOUTHWELL PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS AWARD

Teacher Actions to Facilitate Early Algebraic Reasoning – Jodie Hunter

 

RESEARCH PAPERS

The challenge of supporting a beginning teacher to plan in primary mathematics – Judy Bailey

Contemplating symbolic literacy of first year mathematics students – Caroline Bardini, Robyn Pierce, & Jill Vincent

Problematising Mathematics Education – Andy Begg

Identity as an Embedder-of-Numeracy: Identifying ways to support teachers to embed numeracy across the curriculum – Anne Bennison

Young Children’s Number Line Placements and Place-Value Understanding – Brenda Bicknell, & Jenny Young-Loveridge

The Role of Cultural Capital in Creating Equity for Pāsifika Learners in Mathematics – Trevor Bills, & Roberta Hunter

The importance of praxis in financial literacy education: An Indigenous perspective – Levon Blue, Peter Grootenboer, & Mark Brimble

Coming to do Mathematics in the Margins – Raymond Brown, & Trevor Redmond

“You play on them. They’re active.” Enhancing the mathematics learning of reluctant teenage students – Nigel Calder, & Anthony Campbell

CAS or Pen-and-paper: Factors that Influence Students’ Choices – Scott Cameron, & Lynda Ball

The Language Used to Articulate Content as an Aspect of Pedagogical Content Knowledge  – Helen Chick

Specialised Content Knowledge: Evidence of Pre-service Teachers’ Appraisal of Student Errors in Proportional Reasoning – Mohan Chinnappan, & Bruce White

Learning from Lessons: Studying the Construction of Teacher Knowledge Catalysed by Purposefully-designed Experimental Mathematics Lessons – Doug Clarke, David Clarke, Anne Roche, & Man Ching Esther Chan

Inclusive Practices in the Teaching of Mathematics: Supporting the Work of effective primary teachers – Barbara Clarke, & Rhonda Faragher

Supporting Students to Reason About the Relative Size of Proper and Improper Fractions – Jose Luis Cortina, & Jana Visnovska

Proportional Reasoning as Essential Numeracy – Shelley Dole, Annette Hilton, & Geoff Hilton

A Case Study of the Pedagogical Tensions in Teacher’s Questioning Practices When Implementing Reform-Based Mathematics Curriculum in China – Lianchun Dong, Wee Tiong Seah, & David Clarke

Improving the Effectiveness of Mathematics Teaching through Active Reflection – Kerryn Driscoll

Promoting Teacher Growth through Lesson Study: A Culturally Embedded Approach – Marlon Ebaeguin

The Self-Efficacy of students with Borderline, Mild and Moderate Intellectual Disabilities and their Achievements in Mathematics – Agbon Enoma, & John Malone

Identifying Core Elements of Argument-Based Inquiry in Primary Mathematics Learning – Jill Fielding-Wells

STEM Education: What Does Mathematics Have To Offer? – Noleine Fitzallen

The Challenge for Non-first-language-English Academic Publishing in English Language Research Outlets – Vince Geiger, & Rudolf Straesser

The Impact of Let’s Count on Children’s Mathematics Learning – Ann Gervasoni, & Bob Perry, & Linda Parish

Comparing the Development of Australian and German 7-Year-Old and 8-Year-Old’s Counting and Whole Number Learning – Ann Gervasoni, & Andrea Peter-Koop

Learning at the Boundaries – Merrilyn Goos

The Practice of ‘Middle Leading’ in Mathematics Education – Peter Grootenboer, Christine Edwards-Groves, & Karin Rönnerman

Teaching Computation in Primary School without Traditional Written Algorithms – Judy Hartnett

Calculating for probability: “He koretake te rima” (Five is useless) – Ngārewa Hāwera, & Merilyn Taylor

Students’ Relationships with Mathematics: Affect and Identity – Naomi Ingram

Using Alternative Multiplication Algorithms to ‘Offload’ Cognition – Dan Jazby, & Cath Pearn

Successful Mathematics Lessons in Remote Communities: A Case Study of Balargo – Robyn Jorgensen

Differentiated Success: Combining Theories to Explain Learning – Robyn Jorgensen, & Kevin Larkin

The Mathematics Instructional Leader: What a Difference Crucial Conversations Make – Janeen Lamb, Carmel Diezmann, & Jillian Fox

The Search for Fidelity in Geometry Apps: An Exercise in Futility? – Kevin Larkin

Pre-service teachers and numeracy in and beyond the classroom – Gilah C Leder, Helen J Forgasz, Natalie Kalkhoven, & Vince Geiger

Gender Differences in Mathematics Attitudes in Coeducational and Single Sex Secondary Education – Kester Lee, & Judy Anderson

Developing a Theoretical Framework to Assess Taiwanese Primary Students’ Geometric Argumentation – Tsu-Nan Lee

Starting a Conversation about Open Data in Mathematics Education Research – Tracy Logan

A snapshot of young children’s mathematical competencies: Results from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children – Amy MacDonald, & Colin Carmichael

Examining PCK in a Senior Secondary Mathematics Lesson – Nicole Maher, Tracey Muir, & Helen Chick

Teacher’s Scaffolding over the Year to Develop Norms of Mathematical Inquiry in a Primary Classroom – Katie Makar, Arthur Bakker, & Dani Ben-Zvi

Middle Years Students Influencing Local Policy – Margaret Marshman

Early Years Teachers’ Perspectives on Teaching through Multiple Metaphors and Multimodality – Paula Mildenhall

Young Indigenous Students’ Engagement with Growing Pattern Tasks: A Semiotic Perspective – Jodie Miller

Professional Knowledge Required when Teaching Mathematics for Numeracy in the Multiplicative Domain – Judith Mills

Determining a Student’s Optimal Learning Zone in Light of the Swiss Cheese Model   Patricia Morley & Simone Zmood

Student and Parent Perspectives on Fipping the Mathematics Classroom – Tracey Muir

Authority and Agency in Young Children’s Early Number Work: A Functional Linguistic Perspective – Carol Murphy

Examples in the Teaching of Mathematics: Teachers’ Perceptions – Lay Keow Ng, & Jaguthsing Dindyal

How Inquiry Pedagogy Enables Teachers to Facilitate Growth Mindsets in Mathematics Classrooms – Mia O’Brien, Katie Makar, Jill Fielding-Wells, & Jude Hillman

Challenging the Mindset of Sammy: A Case Study of a Grade 3 Mathematically Highly Capable Student – Linda Parish

Facebook as a Learning Space: An Analysis from a Community of Practice Perspective – Sitti Maesuri Patahuddin, & Tracy Logan

Strategies for Solving Fraction Tasks and Their Link to Algebraic Thinking – Catherine Pearn, & Max Stephens

Mentoring to Alleviate Anxiety in Pre-Service primary mathematics Teachers: an orientation towards improvement rather than evaluation – Timothy Perkins

Spatial Visualisation and Cognitive Style: How Do Gender Differences Play Out? – Ajay Ramful, & Tom Lowrie

The Practice of Teacher Aides in Tasmanian Primary Mathematics Classrooms – Robyn Reaburn

Qualitative Facets of Prospective Elementary Teachers’ Diagnostic Proceeding: Collecting and Interpreting in One-on-one Interviews – Simone Reinhold

Describing the nature and effect of teacher interactions with students during seat work on challenging tasks – Anne Roche, & Doug Clarke

Teachers’ talk about Robotics: Where is the Mathematics? – Annie Savard, & Kate Highfield

Teaching Statistics in Middle School Mathematics classrooms: Making Links with Mathematics but Avoiding Statistical Reasoning – Annie Savard, & Dominic Manuel

Context counts: The potential of realistic problems to expose and extend social and mathematical understandings – Carly Sawatzki

Theorising about Mathematics Teachers’ Professional Knowledge: The Content, Form, Nature, and Course of Teachers’ Knowledge – Thorsten Scheiner

Understanding Geometric Ideas: Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Knowledge as a Basis for Teaching – Rebecca Seah

Mathematical Language Development and Talk Types in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Environments – Duncan Symons, & Robyn Pierce

The Individual Basic Facts Assessment Tool – Sandi Tait-McCutcheon, & Michael Drake

Affording and Constraining Local Moral Orders in Teacher-Led Ability-Based Mathematics Groups – Sandi Tait-McCutcheon, Joanna Higgins, Mary Jane Shuker, & Judith Loveridge

Exploring relationship between scientific reasoning skills and mathematics problem solving – Nor’ain Mohd Tajudin, & Mohan Chinnappan

Developing Adaptive Expertise with Pasifika Learners in an Inquiry Classroom – Zain Thompson, & Jodie Hunter

Getting out of Bed: Students’ Beliefs – Jane Watson, & Rosemary Callingham

Improving Student Motivation and Engagement in Mathematics Through One-to-one Interactions – Jennifer Way, Amelia Reece, Janette Bobis, Judy Anderson, & Andrew Martin

A Cross-cultural Comparison of Parental Expectations for the Mathematics Achievement of their Secondary School Students – Daya Weerasinghe, & Debra Panizzon

“I was in year 5 and I failed maths”: Identifying the Range and Causes of Maths Anxiety in first year Pre-service Teachers – Sue Wilson

Enhancing Mathematics (STEM) Teacher Education in Regional Australia: Pedagogical Interactions and Affect – Geoff Woolcott, & Tony Yeigh

Mathematics, Programming, and STEM – Andy Yeh, & Vinesh Chandra

 

RESEARCH PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS

Laying the Foundation for Proportional Reasoning – Ann Downton

The Development and Evaluation of an Individualised Learning Tool for Mathematics students with Intellectual Disability: IMPELS – Agbon Enoma, & John Malone

Capturing Mathematical Learning in an Inquiry Context: There are Some Things Not Easily Measured – Kym Fry

Teacher Professional Growth through using a Critical Mass Mentoring System: Effective Whole School Teacher Professional Development – Judy Hartnett, & Jim Midgley

Anatomy of a Mathscast – Carola Hobohm, & Linda Galligan

An Exploration of Strategies That Teachers Use When Teaching Beginning Algebra – Christina Lee, & Christine Ormond

Factors Influencing Social Process of Statistics Learning within an IT Environment – Ken W. Li, & Merrilyn Goos

Identifying categories of Pre-service Teachers’ Mathematical Content Knowledge – Sharyn Livy

Using Drawings and Discussion to Prompt Young Learners to Reflect Upon and Describe Their Mathematical Understandings – Andrea McDonough, & Jill Cheeseman

Language and Mathematics: Exploring a New Model to Teach in Bi/Multilingual Mathematics Classroom – Charly Muke

Exploring the Influence of Early Numeracy Understanding Prior to School on Mathematics Achievement at the End of Grade 2 – Andrea Peter-Koop, & Sebastian Kollhoff

An Irish Response to an International Concern:Challenges to Mathematics Teaching – Lisa O’Keeffe, Olivia Fitzmaurice, & Patrick Johnson

An Analysis of Modelling Process based on McLuhan’s Media Theory: Focus on Constructions by Media in Cases of Using Geoboard – Hiro Ozasa

The Knowledge Dimension of Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy for Integration – Farzad Radmehr, Robin Averill, & Michael Drake

Developing an analysing tool for dynamic mathematics-related student interaction regarding affect, cognition and participation – Laura Tuohilampi

Thinking Strategies Used by 7th-Grade Students in Solving Number Sense Problems – Palanisamy Veloo, & Parmjit Singh

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

A Focus Question Approach to the Teaching of Mathematics – John Ley

A Problem Solving Lesson: Pre-service Teachers Initiation to Lesson Study – Jaguthsing Dindyal

Breaking down Barriers – Peter Howley

Building upon the Language Model of Mathematics – Harry Kanasa & Kevin Larkin

Changing Practices in Indigenous Communities – Kay Owens & Charly Muke

Conceptual Connectivity in Mathematics – Joanne Mulligan & Geoff Woolcott

Examining a Students’ Resource for Reconstructing the Limit Concept at Need: A Structural Abstraction Perspective – Thorsten Scheiner & Márcia M. F. Pinto

Exploring Students’ Views on using iPads in Mathematics – Janelle Hill

Mapping school students’ aspirations for STEM careers – Kathryn Holmes, Adam Lloyd, Jenny Gore, & Max Smith

Mathematical Thinking in a Context of ‘General Thinking’: Implications for Mathematics Education – Corinne Miller, Geoff Woolcott, & Christos Markopoulos

Paternal influence on school students’ aspirations for STEM careers – Adam Lloyd, Jenny Gore, & Max Smith

Pre-service Teachers’ Views on Mathematics Homework Practices – Sven Trenholm, & Mohan Chinnappan

Primary-Middle Pre-Service Teachers reported use of the Mathematics Textbook – Lisa O’Keeffe

Promoting Financial Literacy in Pre-service Teacher Education through On-line Modules – Leigh Wood, Carmel Coady, Joanne Mulligan, Michael Cavanagh, & Damian Bridge

Promoting the Development of Foundation Content Knowledge in all Primary Pre-service Teachers – Chris Linsell, Naomi Ingram, & Megan Anakin

Teachers’ Beliefs about Knowledge of Content and Students and its Effect on their Practice – Vesife Hatısaru

Teaching out-of-field: Meanings, representations and silences – Colleen Vale, Linda Hobbs, Christopher Speldewinde, & Zahra Parvanehnezhadshirazian

The Australian Mathematics Competition: What’s the Score? – Andrew Kepert, & Mike Clapper

The Pattern and Structure of the Australian Curriculum-Mathematics – Catherine McCluskey, Joanne Mulligan, & Michael Mitchelmore

Understanding Mathematics: Teacher Knowledge, Task Design and Evaluating Students’ Mathematical Reasoning – Christine Mae, Janette Bobis, & Jenni Way

 

ROUND TABLE

Investigating Mathematical Inquiry – Katie Makar, Jill Fielding-Wells, Kym Fry, Sue Allmond, & Jude Hillman

Promoting Positive Emotional Engagement in Mathematics of Prospective Primary Teachers  – Joanna Higgins, & Janette Bobis

Senior Secondary Students’ Pre-calculus and Calculus Understanding  – Michael Jennings, & Peter Adams

Working Across Disciplinary Boundaries in Pre-service Teacher Education – Merrilyn Goos, Judy Anderson, Jo Balatti, Kim Beswick, Tricia Forrester, & Jenni Way