CLEMENTS-FOYSTER LECTURE
A Deep Dive into Mathematics Education Research in Search of Significance – Janette Bobis
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Interventions and Development of Mathematics Education for Primary Schools – Mercy Kazima
Towards Embodied Validity in Mathematics Education Research – Nathalie Sinclair
BETH SOUTHWELL PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS AWARD
Turn Left, Turn Right: An Embodied Perspective on Children’s Difficulties with Left/Right Spatial Orientations – Jennifer Way & Katherin Cartwright
RESEARCH SYMPOSIA
From Tensions to Opportunities: Evidencing Mathematics Leadership – Kate Copping, Natasha Ziebell, Matt Sexton, Ann Downton, Bernadette Pearce, Andrea O’Connor, Lauren Gould & Peter Grootenboer
Attending to Student Diversity in Mathematics Education in Inclusive Settings – Kate Quane, Matt Thompson, Catherine Attard, Kathryn Holmes, Lorraine Gaunt, Tom Porta, Melissa Fanshawe, Melissa Cain, & Bec Neill
Effective Mathematics Teaching: Building Partnerships to Co-Develop Evidence-Based Capability – Rose Wood, Rhonda Horne, Katie Makar, Merrilyn Goos, Terry Moran, Kyan Lambie, Rhonda Horne & Judith Hillman
RESEARCH PAPERS
Beyond Qualifications: Identity of Out-of-Field Teachers in Years 7–10 Mathematics in South Australia – Amie Albrecht & Lisa O’Keeffe
An Analysis of Multiplicative Thinking Development in Years 3 to 6 – Lei Bao & Max Stephens
Beliefs About the Active, Bodily Experience Mathematics Learning Activities: An Explorative Teacher Survey in Australia – Alessandra Boscolo
Classroom Expectations: Listen to the Maths – Jill Brown
Using the McNamara Fallacy to Critique (Mis)representations of “Success” in Mathematics Education – Rebecca Burtenshaw & Merrilyn Goos
Changes in Year 11 Mathematics Students’ Choices About the Use of a Computer Algebra System (CAS) to Solve Routine Problems – Scott Cameron, Lynda Ball & Vicki Steinle
What Kind of Mathematics Teacher is ChatGPT? Identifying the Pedagogical Practices Preferenced by Generative AI Tools When Preparing Lesson Plans – Scott Cameron & Carmel Mesiti
A School Mathematics Leader’s Account of her Leadership – Jill Cheeseman & Kerryn Driscoll
Australian Junior Secondary Students’ Approaches to Solving Ratio Problems Prior to Formal Instruction and Their Misconceptions – Michelle Cheung, Bronwyn Reid O’Connor & Ben Zunica
Developing Complex Unfamiliar Mathematics Questions: A Perspective – David Chinofunga & Philemon Chigeza
Potential Fraction Concept Images Afforded in Textbooks: A Comparison of Northern Ireland and Singapore – Ban Heng Choy & Pamela Moffett
Delving Deeply into Interviews with Timeline Tools – Ellen Corovic, Sharyn Livy & Ann Downton
Learning to Share Fairly: The Importance of Spatial Reasoning in Early Partitioning Experiences – Chelsea Cutting
Scripted Identities of the Mathematics Learner: Blurring Fiction and Fact in the Presentation of Research Data – Lisa Darragh & Alice Smith
Exploring Beliefs and Practices Towards Teaching Probability Using Games: A Case Study of one Fijian Secondary Mathematics Teacher – Hem Dayal, Krishan Kumar & Sashi Sharma
Secondary In-Service Mathematics Teachers’ Self-Reported Teaching Practices and Their Views on Using Games in Teaching – Hem Dayal, Sashi Sharma & Krishan Kumar
Mathematical Modelling for a Class Party: Challenges for Students in one Year 4 Classroom –Kym Fry, Judith Hillman, Rhonda Horne & Elizabeth Rasmussen
An Aesthetic Approach to Teaching Mathematics: A Proposed Framework Using Children’s Picture Books – Lorraine Gaunt, Mellie Green, Georgina Barton, Hannah Deehan & Danielle Sparrow
Harnessing the Expertise of Mathematics Intervention Teachers to Support Primary Teachers Through Co-Teaching Cycles – Ann Gervasoni, Ann Downton, Linda Flanagan, Kerry Giumelli, Anne Roche & Owen Wallis
Relationship Between Pre-Service Teachers’ Early Mathematics Experiences and Their Current Self-Perception on Mathematics – Seyum Getenet, Saidat Adeniji & Melissa Fanshawe
Numeracy Across the Australian Curriculum: Opportunities from F to 6 – Seyum Getenet, Penelope Baker, Jill Fielding, Tracey Muir & Saidat Adeniji
Student Engagement with Dynamic Digital Representations of Decimal Fractions to Prompt Conceptual Change – Amelia Gorman
Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Mathematical Competence – Vesife Hatisaru, Julia Collins, Steven Richardson & Constantine Lozanovski
Teacher Expectations of Student Strategies for Algebra Problems – Vesife Hatisaru, Olivia Johnston, Julia Collins & Wendy Harmon
Learning Mathematics Through Sequences of Connected, Cumulative, and Challenging Tasks: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective – Jane Hubbard
Riding the Wave of COVID-19: The afterMATH – Naomi Ingram & Trish Wells
Comprehending and Applying the First Isomorphism Theorem – Marios Ioannou
Development of Items to Assess Big Ideas of Equivalence and Proportionality – Jahangeer Mohamed Jahabar, Toh Tin Lam, Tay Eng Guan & Tong Cherng Luen
Roles of Mathematical and Statistical Models in Data-Driven Predictions in an Integrated STEM Context – Takashi Kawakami & Akihiko Saeki
Reducing Mathematics and Examination Anxiety Using the Five Question Approach – John Ley
Incorporating Data Visualisation Into Teaching and Learning – Meng Li
Conveyance Technology in Supporting the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics Through Student Reasoning and Problem Solving – Sharyn Livy
Primary Students’ Responses to a Cognitive Activation Lesson – Ciara Loughland, Janette Bobis & Jennifer Way
Pre-Service Teachers’ Use of Jump Strategy on the Empty Number Line When Recording Micro-Teaching Videos – Tarryn Lovemore
Defining the Problem in a Changing Landscape: How Leaders Plan for and Address Mathematics Curriculum Change – Margaret Marshman, Emily Ross, Anne Bennison & Merrilyn Goos
Factors that Influence Primary Preservice Teachers’ Self-Efficacy While Teaching Mathematics During Professional Practice – Karen McDaid
Mathematics Written Feedback for Pre-Service Teachers During Professional Experience – Chrissy Monteleone & Monica Wong
Implementing Dialogic Pedagogies in Early Years Mathematics Teaching – Tracey Muir, Damon Thomas & Carol Murphy
Pre-Service Primary School Teachers’ Understanding of the Meaning of ‘Capacity’ in the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics – Erica Nguyen & Heather McMaster
Pre-Service Teachers’ Struggles With Core Numeracy Concepts – Kathy O’ Sullivan
Examining Students’ Mathematical Thinking: The Case of Porridge Words – Kate Quane
Flourishing Mathematics Teachers: The Effect of School-Based Placements on Preservice Secondary Mathematics Teachers Anticipated Job Enjoyment – Bronwyn Reid O’Connor & Ben Zunica
Engaging Multilingual Students in Frequent and Supported Opportunities for Discourse to Strengthen Their Mathematical Thinking – Rachel Restani, Margarita Jimenez-Silva, Tony Albano, Suzanne Abdelrahim, Robin Martin & Rebecca Ambrose
Catching the Translanguaging Wave: Considerations for Young Multilingual Learners’ Mathematical Meaning-Making – Sally-Ann Robertson & Mellony Graven
Teaching the Unexpected Mathematics: How Digital Technologies Unlocked Incidental Primary Mathematics Concepts – Emily Ross, Margaret Marshman & Natalie McMaster
Do Primary School Teachers Prefer Digital or Non-Digital Games to Support Mathematics Instruction? – James Russo & Anne Roche
Mathematics Lecturer’s Adaption to Online Teaching in Response to COVID-19 – Khalid Saddiq & Helen Chick
Raising Students’ Awareness and Actions Through a Sustainability Project – Soma Salim, Katie Makar & Jana Višňovská
Mathematics Leaders as Agents of Project Sustainability – Matt Sexton
Can a Short Online Test Diagnose Student Thinking? – Vicki Steinle, Kaye Stacey & Beth Price
Promoting Mathematical Reasoning in the Early Years Through Dialogic Talk – Anita Stibbard, Christine Edwards-Groves & Christina Davidson
Understanding of the Equal Sign: A Case of Chinese Grade 5 Students – Jiqing Sun, Xinghua Sun & Max Stephens
Out-of-School PSLE Mathematics Practice Books in Singapore – Teo Pei Pei & Berinderjeet Kaur
How Children who Speak Marathi Respond to the Introduction of Uncertain Language in a Statistical Investigation – Mitali Thatte & Katie Makar
Social Mathematical Practices in Multi-Digit Multiplication – Kristen Tripet
Preservice Primary Teacher Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Fractions Using the Refined Consensus Model – Elise van der Jagt & Wendy Nielsen
Student Problem-Posing During Open Mathematical Inquiry – Kristin Zorn, Kym Fry, Kevin Larkin & Peter Grootenboer
ROUND TABLES
Supporting Out-of-Field Secondary Mathematics Teaching in NSW: A Multifaceted Project Design – Judy Anderson, Janette Bobis, Kathryn Holmes, Helen Watt & Paul Richardson
If Not With Fennema in the 1970s, Then When? – Helen Forgasz & Jennifer Hall
Arresting the Decline in Secondary School Mathematics Enrolments – Michael Jennings
Reflective Encounters Between Primary Pre-Service Teachers and a Mathematics Teacher Educator to Explore Critical Mathematics Teaching Approaches – Rosalie Miller & Julie Clark
Threshold Concepts in Primary Mathematics – Meredith Page & Julie Clark
Exploring the Culture of Out-of-Field Professional Education for Mathematics Teachers – Emily Ross, Merrilyn Goos, Susan Caldis, Connie Cirkony, Seamus Delaney, Janet Dutton, Linda Hobbs, Greg Oates & Christopher Speldewinde
Effective Pedagog(ies) in Mathematics: The Current State of Mathematics Education Practice and Research – Elise van der Jagt, Jill Fielding & Nadia Walker
World-Centred Mathematics Education: Theorising with Biesta – Jana Višňovská, Margaret Marshman & José Luis Cortina
Write Like a Reviewer: MERGA Conferences and Beyond – Jana Višňovská, Emily Ross, Seyum Getenet, Vince Geiger & Greg Oates
University Lecturers in Early Childhood Mathematics Education: Who are They? What are Their Professional Needs? – Jennifer Way, Laurinda Lomas, & Chrissy Monteleone
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Using a Visual Representation Framework with Pre-Service Teachers to Analyse Place Value Representations – Tammy Booysen
Use of Newman Error Analysis Guidelines to Identify Pupils’ Errors in a Word Problem Involving Fractions – Elaine Yu Ling Cai
Supporting EAL/D Learners in Mathematics – Geraldine Caleta & Barbara McHugh
Supporting Out-of-Field Mathematics Teaching in Middle Years of Schooling – Philemon Chigeza & Subhashni Taylor
Revisiting Pedagogical Design Capacity: Mathematics Teachers’ Agency in Designing Instructional Materials – Sze Looi Chin, Ban Heng Choy & Yew Hoong Leong
Investigating High School Students Understanding of Decomposition Techniques in Mathematics – Michael Dennis
Students of Different Engagement and Achievement Levels Responses to Mathematics Lessons Involving Challenging Tasks – Maggie Feng, Janette Bobis, Jennifer Way & Bronwyn Reid O’Connor
Building Parental Capital in Supporting Early Literacy and Numeracy Learning – Mellony Graven & Robyn Jorgensen
What Would Make Mathematics More Interesting? Junior Secondary Student Perspectives – Kathryn Holmes, Matt Thompson & Erin Mackenzie
Teacher Professional Learning: The Interplay of External Stimuli, Social Dynamics, and Institutional Dimensions – Sally Hughes
Uncovering the Complexities of Mathematical Problem-Solving Instruction: An In-Depth Analysis of a Mathematical Problem-Solving Lesson for Low-Progress Primary School Students – Kwan Yu Heng Kenneth
Understanding Australian Teachers’ Conceptualisation of Angle – John Lawton
Supporting the Development of Language and Collaborative Competencies for International Students in 1st Year Mathematics – Kim Locke & Lisa Darragh
On the Necessity of Multimodal Semiotic Approaches for the Analysis of Young Children’s Mathematical Drawings – Andrea Maffia & Ann Downton
Analysing the Use of Hands-on Tasks to Develop Student Talk and Collaboration – Carol Murphy, Tracey Muir, & Damon Thomas
Mathematics Homework: The Importance of Pitch – Lisa O’Keeffe & Amie Albrecht
Enrolment Trends in Queensland Senior Advanced Mathematics: Comparisons for Socio-Economic Advantage and Regions – Chris Powell
Froebel Meets OpenSCAD: Pre-Service Teachers Form Units in Notes for Children and in Instructions for 3D Cube Constructions – Simone Reinhold & Bernd Wollring
Scaffolding Structured Inquiry Learning Through ‘Spotlighting’ – James Russo, Jane Hubbard, Carly Millichap & Alana Brandholz
Mathematics Education Researchers’ Perspectives on Implications of Their Research for Primary Teachers – James Russo, Jane Hubbard & Anne Roche
Enhancing Problem-Solving Skills Among Low-Progress Students in Singapore: Leveraging Variation Theory in Mathematics Education – Tan Chek Khai Rayner
We All Know Fun Maths – But Where is the Theoretical Foundation? – Laura Tuohilampi