2018 Conference Proceedings

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

Examining Historical Pedagogies Towards Opening Spaces for Teaching all Mathematics Learners in Culturally Responsive Ways – Robin Averill

Looking for Structure: Moving Out of the Realm of Computation to Explore the Nature of the Operations – Deborah Schifter

 

BETH SOUTWELL PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS AWARD

From Research to Practice: The Case of Mathematical Reasoning – Dianne Siemon, Rosemary Callingham, Lorraine Day, Marj Horne, Rebecca Seah, Max Stephens, Jane Watson

 

SYMPOSIUM

Stimulating Proportional Reasoning through Engaging Contexts – Shelley Dole, Ann Downton, Jill Cheeseman, Carly Sawatzki, Merrilyn Goos, Annette Hilton, Geoff Hilton, Kerry Giumelli, Barbara McHugh

Multiplicative Thinking: Enhancing the Capacity of Teachers to Teach and Students to Learn – Chris Hurst, Chris Linsell, Marilyn Holmes, Bilinda Offen, Naomi Ingram

CHOOSEMATHS – an Australian Approach to Increasing Participation of Women in Mathematics – Inge Koch, Ning Li, Gilah Leder

Young Children’s Transition to Mathematical Drawing – Jennifer Way, Sarah Ferguson, Joanne Mulligan, Amy MacDonald, Jill Cheeseman, Andrea McDonough, Steve Murphy

 

RESEARCH PAPERS

Preparedness to teach: The perspective of Saudi female pre-service mathematics teachers – Fatimah Alsaleh, Glenda Anthony

Dialogic Practices in the Mathematics Classroom – Catherine Attard, Christine Edwards-Groves, Peter Grootenboer

The R in the ELR Process: Reflection and the Emotions of Pre-Service Teachers. A Case Study – Taryn Axelsen, Linda Galligan, Geoff Woolcott

Beginning teachers learning to teach mathematics through problem-solving – Judy Bailey

Using Technology in Mathematics: Professional Development for Teachers – Isaac Benning, Chris Linsell, Naomi Ingram

Identifying Practices that Promote Engagement with Mathematics Among Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds – Anne Bennison, Merrilyn Goos, Dominika Bielinski

Pre-Service Teachers’ Difficulties with Problem Solving – Adrian Berenger

Changes in Students’ Mathematical Discourse When Describing a Square – Adrian Berenger

What can be learned from teachers assessing mathematical reasoning: A case study – Leicha A. Bragg, Sandra Herbert

Conspiracy in senior school mathematics – Paul Brown

Using apps for teaching and learning mathematics: A socio-technological assemblage – Nigel Calder, Carol Murphy

Exploring mathematical fluency: teachers’ conceptions and descriptions of students – Katherin Cartwright

Teachers’ Perceptions of Obstacles to Incorporating a Problem Solving Style of Mathematics into their Teaching – Jill Cheeseman

“Plot 1 is All Spread Out and Plot 2 is All Squished Together”: Exemplifying Statistical Variation with Young Students – Helen Chick, Jane M. Watson, Noleine Fitzallen

Solution of word problems by Malaysian students: Insights from analysis of representations – Mohan Chinnappan, Munirah Ghazali

Orchestrating Mathematics Lessons: Beyond the Use of a Single Rich Task – Ban Heng Choy, Jaguthsing Dindyal

An argument to engage really young children in mathematics – Audrey Cooke

Verification and Validation: What do we mean? – Jennifer Czocher, Gloria Stillman, Jill Brown

Different worlds: Looking deeply at context in the sustainability of PD for collaborative problem-solving mathematics – Lisa Darragh

Fluency with number facts – Responding to the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics – Shelley Dole, Peter Carmichael, Catherine Thiele, Jenny Simpson, Christine O’Toole

Pilot Study on the Impact of In Situ Spaced Professional Learning on Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge of Multiplicative Thinking – Ann Downton, Kerry Giumelli, Barbara McHugh, Tammy Roosen, Nadine Meredith, Geraldine Caleta, Paul Stenning

Opening classroom practice to challenge: The role of trust in mathematics teachers’ collaborative inquiry involving co-teaching – Raewyn Eden

Senior Secondary Probability Curriculum: What has changed? – Heather Ernst

A Comparison of STEM and non-STEM Teachers’ Confidence in and Attitudes towards Numeracy – Elizabeth Ferme

The explicitness of teaching in guided inquiry – Kym Fry, Judith Hillman

Generating Ideas for Numeracy Tasks across the Curriculum – Vince Geiger

The practice of using NAPLAN numeracy test results: A review of the literature – Seyum Getenet, Melissa Fanshawe

Making Mathematics Accessible for All: A Classroom Inquiry – Bronwyn Gibbs, Roberta Hunter

Zooming-in on Decimals – Amelia Gorman, Jennifer Way

Unexpected Outcomes of a Family Mathematics Story-Time Program – Mellony Graven, Robyn Jorgensen

How do Students Create Algorithms? Exploring a Group’s Attempt to Maximise Happiness – John Griffith Moala

Disciplinary Literacy in the Mathematics Classroom – Gail Hager

Maintaining Productive Patterns of Teacher-Student Interactions in Mathematics Classrooms – Sara Haghighi Siahgorabi

The Distinction Between Mathematics and Spatial Reasoning in Assessment: Do STEM Educators and Cognitive Psychologists Agree? – Danielle Harris, Tom Lowrie

What do Culturally Diverse Students in New Zealand Value Most for their Mathematics Learning? – Julia L Hill

Readiness to Teach Secondary Mathematics: A Study of Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers’ Self-Perceptions – Gregory Hine, Thuan Thai

Free-Response Tasks in Primary Mathematics: A Window on Students’ Thinking – Jodie Hunter, Ian Jones

Using a Contextual Pāsifika Patterning Task to Support Generalisation – Jodie Hunter, Jodie Miller

Preparing for the Final Examination in Abstract Algebra: Student Perspectives and Modus Operandi – Marios Ioannou

The Role of Executive Function and Visual-Spatial Working Memory in the Development of Mathematics Skill – Siti Baizura Jamil, Munirah Ghazali

Improvising in the Primary Mathematics Classroom – Dan Jazby

Speaking Spatially: Implications for Remote Indigenous Learners – Robyn Jorgensen, Tom Lowrie

Effectiveness of Applying Conceptual Change Approaches in Challenging Mathematics Tasks for Low-Performing Students – Tierney Kennedy

Issues of Equity in a Mathematical Inquiry Classroom – Christopher King

What Can We Learn about Students’ Mathematical Understanding from their Writing? – Igor’ Kontorovich

Designing Data Collection Instruments to Research Engagement in Mathematics – Alexandra Laird, Peter Grootenboer

The Five Question Approach: Disrupting the Linear Approach to Mathematics Teaching – John Ley, Catherine Attard, Kathryn Holmes

Insights into a Year 4 Student’s Spatial Reasoning and Conceptual Knowledge of Rectangular Prisms – Sharyn Livy, Ann Downton, Simone Reinhold, Susanne Wöller

Proposed Structural Refinements to the Interconnected Model of Teacher Professional Growth – Laurinda Lomas

Developing a Rubric for Assessing Mathematical Reasoning: A Design-Based Research Study in Primary Classrooms – Esther Loong, Colleen Vale, Wanty Widjaja, Sandra Herbert, Leicha A. Bragg, Aylie Davidson

Variations on a Theme: Pre-service Mathematics Teacher Reflections Using an Affect-based Critical Moment Protocol – Margaret Marshman, Linda Galligan, Taryn Axelsen, Geoff Woolcott, Robert Whannell

The Beliefs about Mathematics, its Teaching and Learning of those Involved in Secondary Mathematics Pre-Service Teacher Education – Margaret Marshman, Merrilyn Goos

Engaging Pre-Service Non-Specialist Teachers in Teaching Mathematics Using Embodied Technology Tools – Sarah Matthews, Marie Boden, Jana Visnovska

Noticing Mathematical Pattern and Structure Embodied in Young Children’s Play – Catherine McCluskey, Joanne Mulligan, Penny Van Bergen

Experimenting with Reform-Orientated Approaches: Difficulties and Advantages Experienced by Primary Mathematics Teachers – Melody McCormick

Principals’ Perceptions and Expectations of Primary Teachers with a Specialisation in Mathematics – Heather McMaster, Jennifer Way, Janette Bobis, Kim Beswick

Defining the Characteristics of Critical Mathematical Thinking – Chrissy Monteleone, Paul White, Vince Geiger

It’s More Than the Videos: Examining the Factors That Impact Upon Students’ Uptake of the Flipped Classroom Approach in a Senior Secondary Mathematics Classroom – Tracey Muir

Determinants of Success in Learning Mathematics: A Study of Post-Secondary Students in New Zealand – Priscilla Murphy

School location and socio-economic status and patterns of participation and achievement in Year 12 enabling mathematics – Steve Murphy

Examining a teacher’s use of multiple representations in the teaching of percentages: A commognitive perspective – Chia Su Ngin

Middle School Pre-Service Teachers’ Mathematics Content Knowledge and Mathematical Pedagogy Content Knowledge: Assessing and Relating – Stephen Norton

Mathematics Anxiety: Year 7 and 8 Student Perceptions – Lisa O’Keeffe, Bruce White, Debra Panizzon, Katrina Elliott, Alex Semmens

Investigating Mathematics Students’ Motivational Beliefs and Perceptions: An Exploratory Study – Claudia Orellana, Tasos Barkatsas

Characteristics of Spatial Visualisation: Perspectives from Area of Composite Shapes – Sitti Patahuddin, Tracy Logan, Ajay Ramful

Diagram Effective or Diagram Dependent? – Catherine Pearn, Max Stephens, Robyn Pierce

The Effects of Mathematics Anxiety on Primary Students – Theodosia Prodromou, Nick Frederiksen

The experiences of homeschooling parents when teaching mathematics – Robyn Reaburn, Janine Roberts

Examining Nondominant Student and Teacher Agency in a U.S. High School Mathematics Classroom – Rachel Restani

Measuring Mental Computational Fluency with Addition: A Novel Approach – James Russo, Sarah Hopkins

Sense-Making in Mathematics: Towards a Dialogical Framing – Thorsten Scheiner

Perceiving and Reasoning about Geometric Objects in the Middle Years – Rebecca Seah, Marj Horne

Contribution to the Development of Self-Regulated Learning Through Merging Music and Mathematics – Carolyn Stevenson-Milln

Preservice Teacher Mathematics Education: Online vs. Blended vs. Face to Face! Is this the whole story? – Rebekah Strang, Kevin Larkin

Aligning Online Mathematical Problem Solving with the Australian Curriculum – Duncan Symons, Robyn Pierce

Participatory Task Science: The reSolve story – Kristen Tripet, Ruqiyah Patel, Steve Thornton, Nadia Walker

The Role of the Story in Enabling Meaningful Mathematical Engagement in the Classroom – Jana Visnovska, Jose Luis Cortina, Pamela Vale, Mellony Graven

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Supporting Inquiry-Base Teaching in Qatari Mathematics Classrooms – Nigel Calder, Carol Murphy, Abdullah Abu-Tineh, Nasser Mansour

A Test to Test Test-Readiness – Improving Teacher Education Students’ Numeracy Skills Development – Adelle Colbourn, Kate Hartup, Thuan Thai, Amanda Yeung

Using Mobile Technology Applications (Apps) when Teaching and Learning Geometry in Junior Secondary School Mathematics Education in Sri Lanka – Meegasdeniya Edirisinghe, Nigel Calder

Analysing Instruction as a Coordination of Dimensions of Mathematical Progression: The Case of Blair – David Ellemor-Collins

Students’ use of Mathematical Evidence in Guided Mathematical Inquiry – Jill Fielding-Wells, Kate Makar

Teaching Measurements in Australian Primary Schools – Berit Follong, Tamara Bucher, Elena Prieto-Rodriguez, Andrew Miller

The Australian General Public’s View of Gender and Mathematics: A Comparison of Findings from Binary and Non-Binary Studies – Jennifer Hall, Limin Jao

Making Maths a HIIT at School: A Whole School Approach – Adam Lloyd, Nick Riley, Narelle Eather, Drew Miller

A Preliminary Illustration of Mathematical Inquiry Norms in a Primary Classroom – Katie Makar, Jill Fielding- Wells

Mathematics Education: What Students Want to Learn and What Lecturers Think Students Need to Learn? – Martha McFaul, Jyoti Jhagroo

Development of a Theoretical Framework: Designing Online Challenging Mathematics tasks for Pre-Service Teacher Education – Jodie Miller, Regina Bruder, Vince Geiger, Ulrike Roder, Jill Fielding-Wells

Designing a Pedagogical Program to Support Spatial Reasoning in the Primary School – Joanne Mulligan, Geoffrey Woolcott, Michael Mitchelmore, Brent Davis

Connecting Research with Outreach – Michael O’Connor

The ‘Art’ of Ratio: the Potential of a Hands-On Ratio Task – Lisa O’Keefe, Bruce White

A Teacher’s Challenge in Developing Mathematics Talk for Sense-Making in and Through a Second Language – Sally-Ann Robertson, Mellony Graven

Provision of Private Tutoring While School Teachers Provide Enough Support in Mathematics Education  – Daya Weerasinghe