2024 Teacher Reads

An Analysis of Multiplicative Thinking Development in Years 3 to 6 – Lei Bao & Max Stephens

Australian Junior Secondary Students’ Approaches to Solving Ratio Problems Prior to Formal Instruction and Their Misconceptions – Michelle Cheung, Bronwyn Reid O’Connor & Ben Zunica

Beliefs about the Active, Bodily Experience Mathematics Learning Activities: An Explorative Teacher Survey in Australia – Alessandra Boscolo

Can a Short Online Test Diagnose Student Thinking? – Vicki Steinle, Kaye Stacey & Beth Price

Comprehending and Applying the First Isomorphism Theorem – Marios Ioannou

Factors that Influence Primary Preservice Teachers’ Self-Efficacy While Teaching Mathematics During Professional Practice – Karen McDaid

Learning Mathematics Through Sequences of Connected, Cumulative, and Challenging Tasks: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective – Jane Hubbard

Learning to Share Fairly: The Importance of Spatial Reasoning in Early Partitioning Experiences – Chelsea Cutting

Raising Students’ Awareness and Actions through a Sustainability Project – Soma Salim, Katie Makar & Jana Višňovská

Turn Left, Turn Right: An Embodied Perspective on Children’s Difficulties with Left/Right Spatial Orientations – Jenni Way & Katherin Cartwright

Reviewing of research papers

Research papers will be blind reviewed by a panel of peers approved by the conference committee. The main purpose of the refereeing process is to contribute to the growth and development of quality practice in mathematics education research. Thus reviewers are asked to assist authors by providing helpful feedback and to comment on the suitability of papers for presentation at the conference. Accordingly, it will not be assumed that published papers presented at the conference will be as polished as articles in scholarly journals. Referees will be asked to assess papers being reviewed against the accepted norms for scholarly works presented at MERGA conferences, as set out above.

Each conference proceedings’ Editorial Team will exercise discretion over the reviewing process.

Reviewers’ comments will be returned to the authors. Authors whose papers are not accepted for publication may be invited by the editorial panel to present their paper at the conference, with an abstract (only) being published in the proceedings. Papers may be rejected outright, with no opportunity for presentation at the conference in an alternative form.

The MERGA website has detailed advice about criteria for reviewing of MERGA papers, review forms, and examples of strong and poor reviews of different types.

2024 Teacher Reads

2024 Teacher Reads

Short Communications

Presentation of short communications

Beth Southwell Practical Implications Award

Recent Winners

Applying for entry into the BSPIA

Judging of the BSPIA

History of the Award

Research Papers

Research papers can take two major forms:

i. Empirical investigations

ii. Theoretical or position papers

Originality

Reviewing of research papers

Presentation of research papers

Research Symposia

Early Career Research Award

Recent Winners

Applying for the Award

Early Bird Review Process