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Navigating currents and charting directions
Editors: Merrilyn Goos, Ray Brown and Katie Makar
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| Preface |
Preface
Merrilyn Goos
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| List of Reviewers |
Judges and Reviewers for MERGA 31
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| Keynote Address |
Praxis and Practice Architectures in Mathematics Education 297 downloads
Stephen Kemmis
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Stars, Compass, and GPS: Navigating Currents and Charting Directions for Mathematics Education Research on Gender Issues 344 downloads
Helen Forgasz
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| Practical Implication Award |
Facilitating Communities of Mathematical Inquiry 319 downloads
Roberta Hunter
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| Symposium |
A Longitudinal Study of Student Performance on Items Rich in Graphics 364 downloads
Tom Lowrie
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Graphics and the National Numeracy Tests 348 downloads
Carmel Diezmann
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Standardised Assessment in Mathematics: The Tale of Two Items 380 downloads
Tracy Logan and Jane Greenlees
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The Construction of Knowledge: Theoretical Approaches 379 downloads
Tommy Dreyfus, Michael O. J. Thomas, Jill P. Brown and Gaye Williams
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The Role of Information Graphics in Mathematical Proficiency 279 downloads
Carmel Diezmann and Tom Lowrie
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| Research Paper |
A Review of Recent Research in Early Mathematics Learning and Technology 876 downloads
Kate Highfield and Kristy Goodwin
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A Situated Perspective on Learning to Teach Secondary Mathematics 307 downloads
Anne Prescott and Michael Cavanagh
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Abstraction in Context, Combining Constructions, Justification and Enlightenment 355 downloads
Ivy Kidron and Tommy Dreyfus
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Addressing Verbal Memory Weaknesses to Assist Students with Mathematical Learning Difficulties 1191 downloads
Maureen Finnane
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Advancing Research Into Affective Factors in Mathematics Learning: Clarifying Key Factors, Terminology and Measurement 1092 downloads
Patricia C. Cretchley
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Assessing Primary Preservice Teachers’ Mathematical Competence 516 downloads
Karoline Afamasaga-Fuata’i, Paul Meyer and Naomi Falo
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Building Informal Inference in Grade 7 385 downloads
Jane Watson and Julie Donne
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Capturing Students’ Thinking about Strategies used to Solve Mental Computations by Giving Students Access to a Pedagogical Framework 518 downloads
Judy Hartnett
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CAS Enabled Devices as Provocative Agents in the Process of Mathematical Modelling 299 downloads
Vince Geiger, Rhonda Faragher, Trevor Redmond and Jim Lowe
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Chinese Young Children’s Strategies on Basic Addition Facts 985 downloads
Huayu Sun
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Counting On 2007: A Program for Middle Years Students who have Experienced Difficulty with Mathematics 480 downloads
Allan White
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Creating Equitable Practice in Diverse Classrooms: Developing a Tool to Evaluate Pedagogy 534 downloads
Robyn Zevenbergen, Richard Niesche, Peter Grootenboer and Jo Boaler
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Deepening the Mathematical Knowledge of Secondary Mathematics Teachers who Lack Tertiary Mathematics Qualifications 867 downloads
Colleen Vale and Alasdair McAndrew
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Does Student Success Motivate Teachers to Sustain Reform-Oriented Pedagogy? 290 downloads
Linda Cheeseman
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Eliciting Growth in Teachers’ Proportional Reasoning: Measuring the Impact of a Professional Development Program 526 downloads
Shelley Dole, Doug Clarke, Tony Wright, Geoff Hilton and Anne Roche
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Employing Mathematical Modelling to Respond to Indigenous Students’ Needs for Contextualised Mathematics Experiences 570 downloads
Kelli Brown
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Engagement versus Deep Mathematical Understanding: An Early Career Teacher’s Use of ICT in a Lesson 635 downloads
Anne Scott, Ann Downton, Donna Gronn and Adam Staples
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Engaging Mathematics Teachers in Professional Learning by Reflecting on their Pedagogical Practice 444 downloads
Richard O’Donovan
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Explorations of Early Childhood – New Entrant Transition in Mathematics 1348 downloads
Ngaire M. Davies and Karen Walker
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Feedback About Professional Growth for Teachers of Mathematics: A Developmental Perspective 450 downloads
Greg McPhan, John Pegg and Stefan Horarik
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Focusing Year 8 Students on Self-Regulating their Learning of Mathematics 369 downloads
Andrea McDonough and Peter Sullivan
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Fraction Number Line Tasks and the Additivity Concept of Length Measurement 1948 downloads
Annie Mitchell and Marj Horne
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Fractions as a Measure 1139 downloads
Monica Wong and David Evans
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Gaining Insight into Alice’s Pedagogy with Respect to Five Dimensions of Numeracy 365 downloads
Jane Skalicky
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High Achievers in Mathematics: What Can We Learn From and About Them? 610 downloads
Gilah Leder
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How Group Composition Can Influence Opportunities for Spontaneous Learning 498 downloads
Gaye Williams
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How Humanism Can Foster Mediocrity in Early Years Mathematics Education: A Poststructuralist Comparison 385 downloads
Mary Klein
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Identity as a Lens to Understand Learning Mathematics: Developing a Model 416 downloads
Peter Grootenboer and Robyn Zevenbergen
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Indigenous Students’ Early Engagement with Numeracy: The Case of Widgy and Caddy 416 downloads
Elizabeth Warren, Janelle Young and Eva De Vries
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Interdisciplinary Problem Solving: A Focus on Engineering Experiences 414 downloads
Lyn D. English
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Intervention Instruction in Structuring Numbers 1 to 20: The Case of Nate 1173 downloads
David Ellemor-Collins and Robert (Bob) Wright
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Investigating a Phase Approach to Using Technology as a Teaching Tool 437 downloads
Penelope Serow
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Links Between Children’s Understanding of Multiplication and Solution Strategies For Division 1456 downloads
Ann Downton
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Making Connections: Promoting Connectedness in Early Mathematics Education 473 downloads
Abigail Sawyer
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Mathematics for Engineering Education: What Students Say 651 downloads
Mary Coupland, Anne Gardner and Georgina Carmody
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Middle School Students’ Interest in Statistical Literacy 564 downloads
Colin Carmichael and Ian Hay
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Mixing Colours: An ICT Tool Based on a Semiotic Framework for Mathematical Meaning-Making about Ratio and Fractions 785 downloads
Andy Yeh and Rod Nason
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Modes of Reasoning in Explanations in Year 8 Textbooks 468 downloads
Kaye Stacey and Jill Vincent
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Neuropsychological Evidence for the Role of Graphical and Algebraic Representations in Understanding Function 289 downloads
Michael O. J. Thomas, Anna J. Wilson, Michael C. Corballis and Vanessa K. Lim
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One Secondary Teacher’s Use of Problem-Solving Teaching Approaches 425 downloads
Michael Cavanagh
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Preservice Teachers and Numeracy Education: Can Poststructuralism Contribute? 258 downloads
Mary Klein
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Primary Teachers’ Beliefs About the Use of Mathematics Textbooks 884 downloads
Romina Jamieson-Proctor and Carmen Byrne
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Primary Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Knowledge and Understanding of Measurement 1205 downloads
Michelle O’Keefe and Janette Bobis
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Problem Solving Activities in a Constructivist Framework: Exploring how Students Approach Difficult Problems 1193 downloads
Oleksiy Yevdokimov and Tim Passmore
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Proportional Reasoning: Student Knowledge and Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge 660 downloads
Jane Watson, Rosemary Callingham and Julie Donne
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Recognising Different Starting Points in Aboriginal Students’ Learning of Number 289 downloads
Kaye Treacy and Sandra Frid
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Recollections of Mathematics Education: Approaching Graduation and 5 Years Later 237 downloads
Kim Beswick and Shelley Dole
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Reconceptualising Agency Through Teachers Talking About a Sociocultural Approach to Teaching Mathematics in the Classroom 276 downloads
Raymond Brown and Trevor Redmond
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Researcher-Teacher Relationships in Mathematics Education 283 downloads
Merrilyn Goos
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School Readiness: What Do Teachers Expect of Children in Mathematics on School Entry? 1255 downloads
Brenda Sherley and Megan Clark
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Secondary School Students Investigating Mathematics 394 downloads
Joseph Yeo
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Self-Efficacy in Mathematics: Affective, Cognitive, and Conative Domains of Functioning 1126 downloads
S. L. Tait–McCutcheon
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Social Constructivism in the Classroom: From A Community of Learners to A Community of Teachers 1219 downloads
Jane Irvin
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Some Key Junctures in Relational Thinking 481 downloads
Max Stephens
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Speaking with Different Voices: Knowledge Legitimation Codes of Mathematicians and Mathematics Educators 525 downloads
Steve Thornton
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Students’ Attitude Towards Using Materials to Learn Algebra: A Year 7 Case Study 1095 downloads
Stephen Norton and Will Windsor
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Success and Consistency in the Use of Heuristics to Solve Mathematics Problems 836 downloads
Khoon Yoong Wong
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Teachers’ Motivation to Attend Voluntary Professional Development in K-10 Mathematics 966 downloads
Judy Anderson
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Teaching Area and Perimeter: Mathematics-Pedagogical-Content Knowledge-in-Action 6862 downloads
Kai Kow Joseph Yeo
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Teaching Mathematics and Technology through Design Practice 530 downloads
Stephen Norton and Tom J Cooper
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The 2007 Common Technology Free Examination for Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) Mathematical Methods and Mathematical Methods Computer Algebra System (CAS) 716 downloads
David Leigh-Lancaster, Pam Norton, Peter Jones, Magdalena Les, Michael Evans and Margaret Wu
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The Case of Mathematical Proof in Lower Secondary School: Knowledge and Competencies of Pre-service Teachers 284 downloads
Jill Brown, Gloria Stillman, Björn Schwarz and Gabriele Kaiser
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The Development of Students’ Use of Justification Strategies 786 downloads
Jodie Hunter and Glenda Anthony
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The Hospital Problem Revisited. Tertiary Student’s Perceptions of a Problem Involving the Binomial Distribution 323 downloads
Robyn Reaburn
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The Identification of Partially Correct Constructs 291 downloads
Gila Ron, Rina Hershkowitz and Tommy Dreyfus
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The Introduction of Interactive Whiteboard Technology in the Primary Mathematics Classroom: Three Case Studies 1834 downloads
Penelope Serow and Rosemary Callingham
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Towards a Sociocultural Framework for Understanding the Work of Mathematics Teacher-Educator-Researchers 414 downloads
Merrilyn Goos
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Use of the Internet for Teacher Professional Development and for Teaching Mathematics: Supports and Inhibitors 1444 downloads
Sitti Maesuri Patahuddin
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Using National Numeracy Testing to Benefit Indigenous Students: Case Studies of Teachers Taking Back Control of Outcomes 555 downloads
Annette R. Baturo, Tom J. Cooper, Matthew T. Michaelson and Jessica Stevenson
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Using Paper-Folding in the Primary Years to Promote Student Engagement in Mathematical Learning 1654 downloads
Kathy Brady
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Using Task-Based Interviews to Assess Mathematical Thinking of Primary School Students 718 downloads
Chris Hurst
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Using Valsiner 779 downloads
Linda Galligan
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Validation of an Assessment Instrument Developed for Eliciting Student Prior Learning in Graphing and Data Analysis 405 downloads
Noleine Fitzallen
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What Does Three-quarters Look Like? Students’ Representations of Three-quarters 750 downloads
Vicki Steinle and Beth Price
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Who a Student Sits Near to in Maths: Tension between Social and Mathematical Identities 393 downloads
Naomi Ingram
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Year Five Students Solving Mental and Written Problems: What Are They Thinking? 571 downloads
Julie Clark
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“Zero is Not a Number”: Teachable Moments and their Role in Effective Teaching of Numeracy 797 downloads
Tracey Muir
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Achieving Computational Fluency in Multi-Digit Multiplication and Division
Kristen Tripet
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Coaching and Mentoring Numeracy Lead Teachers to Improve Student Learning: The Journey of Two Year Seven and Eight Teachers
Judith Mills
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Connecting the Points: Students Learning Decimal Place Value
Bruce Moody and Jenny Young-Loveridge
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Errors Made by Student Teachers when Writing Test Items
Jaguthsing Dindyal
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Financial Modelling with Matlab
Peter Watson and Jiling Cao
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Improving Language for Problem Solving
Benedicte Esterman
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Insights from Pre-service Secondary Mathematics Teachers on their Practicum Experience
Jaguthsing Dindyal
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Motivation and Engagement in Mathematics: The Transition from Primary to Secondary School
Karen Skilling
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Reflections on Exponential Functions
Sandra Herbert and Farhang Afshar
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Scaffolding Students’ Understanding of Geometric Properties Using Dynamic Geometry Software
Sahar Bokosmaty
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The Next Big Teaching Resource: Interactive White Boards But Where is the Research?
Philip C Clarkson
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The Role of Mathematics Competitions
Brenda Bicknell
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The Role of Pattern and Structure in Early Mathematics Learning: An Evaluation Study in the First Year of Formal Schooling
Joanne Mulligan, Lyn English and Mike Mitchelmore
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| Round Table (abstract only) |
MERGA: Including the X and Y in Mathematics Education Research
Peter Grootenboer and Naomi Ingram
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Moving Beyond the Script: Addressing Numeracy Needs of Low Achieving Students through Quality Professional Development
Moira Blair and Anuja Singh
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Student Achievement in Mathematics: Learning through Home School Partnership
Honor Ronowicz and Gaynor Terrill
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There is scant research on the role of graphics in students’ mathematical performance. This paper distinguishes between the contextual and informational roles of graphics and provides an overview of the types of information graphics. It also presents
Catherine Attard
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