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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 209 downloads
Stephen Kemmis
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Stars, Compass, and GPS: Navigating Currents and Charting Directions for Mathematics Education Research on Gender Issues 280 downloads
Helen Forgasz
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| Practical Implication Award |
Facilitating Communities of Mathematical Inquiry 240 downloads
Roberta Hunter
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| Symposium |
A Longitudinal Study of Student Performance on Items Rich in Graphics 288 downloads
Tom Lowrie
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Graphics and the National Numeracy Tests 283 downloads
Carmel Diezmann
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Standardised Assessment in Mathematics: The Tale of Two Items 306 downloads
Tracy Logan and Jane Greenlees
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The Construction of Knowledge: Theoretical Approaches 318 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 229 downloads
Carmel Diezmann and Tom Lowrie
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| Research Paper |
A Review of Recent Research in Early Mathematics Learning and Technology 713 downloads
Kate Highfield and Kristy Goodwin
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A Situated Perspective on Learning to Teach Secondary Mathematics 224 downloads
Anne Prescott and Michael Cavanagh
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Abstraction in Context, Combining Constructions, Justification and Enlightenment 252 downloads
Ivy Kidron and Tommy Dreyfus
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Addressing Verbal Memory Weaknesses to Assist Students with Mathematical Learning Difficulties 830 downloads
Maureen Finnane
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Advancing Research Into Affective Factors in Mathematics Learning: Clarifying Key Factors, Terminology and Measurement 833 downloads
Patricia C. Cretchley
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Assessing Primary Preservice Teachers’ Mathematical Competence 368 downloads
Karoline Afamasaga-Fuata’i, Paul Meyer and Naomi Falo
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Building Informal Inference in Grade 7 299 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 378 downloads
Judy Hartnett
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CAS Enabled Devices as Provocative Agents in the Process of Mathematical Modelling 241 downloads
Vince Geiger, Rhonda Faragher, Trevor Redmond and Jim Lowe
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Chinese Young Children’s Strategies on Basic Addition Facts 923 downloads
Huayu Sun
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Counting On 2007: A Program for Middle Years Students who have Experienced Difficulty with Mathematics 394 downloads
Allan White
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Creating Equitable Practice in Diverse Classrooms: Developing a Tool to Evaluate Pedagogy 294 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 561 downloads
Colleen Vale and Alasdair McAndrew
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Does Student Success Motivate Teachers to Sustain Reform-Oriented Pedagogy? 215 downloads
Linda Cheeseman
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Eliciting Growth in Teachers’ Proportional Reasoning: Measuring the Impact of a Professional Development Program 397 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 498 downloads
Kelli Brown
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Engagement versus Deep Mathematical Understanding: An Early Career Teacher’s Use of ICT in a Lesson 427 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 320 downloads
Richard O’Donovan
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Explorations of Early Childhood – New Entrant Transition in Mathematics 932 downloads
Ngaire M. Davies and Karen Walker
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Feedback About Professional Growth for Teachers of Mathematics: A Developmental Perspective 359 downloads
Greg McPhan, John Pegg and Stefan Horarik
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Focusing Year 8 Students on Self-Regulating their Learning of Mathematics 289 downloads
Andrea McDonough and Peter Sullivan
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Fraction Number Line Tasks and the Additivity Concept of Length Measurement 1867 downloads
Annie Mitchell and Marj Horne
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Fractions as a Measure 812 downloads
Monica Wong and David Evans
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Gaining Insight into Alice’s Pedagogy with Respect to Five Dimensions of Numeracy 258 downloads
Jane Skalicky
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High Achievers in Mathematics: What Can We Learn From and About Them? 445 downloads
Gilah Leder
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How Group Composition Can Influence Opportunities for Spontaneous Learning 361 downloads
Gaye Williams
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How Humanism Can Foster Mediocrity in Early Years Mathematics Education: A Poststructuralist Comparison 295 downloads
Mary Klein
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Identity as a Lens to Understand Learning Mathematics: Developing a Model 308 downloads
Peter Grootenboer and Robyn Zevenbergen
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Indigenous Students’ Early Engagement with Numeracy: The Case of Widgy and Caddy 336 downloads
Elizabeth Warren, Janelle Young and Eva De Vries
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Interdisciplinary Problem Solving: A Focus on Engineering Experiences 334 downloads
Lyn D. English
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Intervention Instruction in Structuring Numbers 1 to 20: The Case of Nate 879 downloads
David Ellemor-Collins and Robert (Bob) Wright
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Investigating a Phase Approach to Using Technology as a Teaching Tool 340 downloads
Penelope Serow
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Links Between Children’s Understanding of Multiplication and Solution Strategies For Division 1106 downloads
Ann Downton
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Making Connections: Promoting Connectedness in Early Mathematics Education 392 downloads
Abigail Sawyer
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Mathematics for Engineering Education: What Students Say 407 downloads
Mary Coupland, Anne Gardner and Georgina Carmody
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Middle School Students’ Interest in Statistical Literacy 424 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 558 downloads
Andy Yeh and Rod Nason
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Modes of Reasoning in Explanations in Year 8 Textbooks 407 downloads
Kaye Stacey and Jill Vincent
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Neuropsychological Evidence for the Role of Graphical and Algebraic Representations in Understanding Function 220 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 362 downloads
Michael Cavanagh
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Preservice Teachers and Numeracy Education: Can Poststructuralism Contribute? 199 downloads
Mary Klein
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Primary Teachers’ Beliefs About the Use of Mathematics Textbooks 697 downloads
Romina Jamieson-Proctor and Carmen Byrne
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Primary Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Knowledge and Understanding of Measurement 862 downloads
Michelle O’Keefe and Janette Bobis
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Problem Solving Activities in a Constructivist Framework: Exploring how Students Approach Difficult Problems 850 downloads
Oleksiy Yevdokimov and Tim Passmore
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Proportional Reasoning: Student Knowledge and Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge 487 downloads
Jane Watson, Rosemary Callingham and Julie Donne
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Recognising Different Starting Points in Aboriginal Students’ Learning of Number 204 downloads
Kaye Treacy and Sandra Frid
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Recollections of Mathematics Education: Approaching Graduation and 5 Years Later 188 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 220 downloads
Raymond Brown and Trevor Redmond
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Researcher-Teacher Relationships in Mathematics Education 220 downloads
Merrilyn Goos
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School Readiness: What Do Teachers Expect of Children in Mathematics on School Entry? 919 downloads
Brenda Sherley and Megan Clark
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Secondary School Students Investigating Mathematics 332 downloads
Joseph Yeo
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Self-Efficacy in Mathematics: Affective, Cognitive, and Conative Domains of Functioning 805 downloads
S. L. Tait–McCutcheon
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Social Constructivism in the Classroom: From A Community of Learners to A Community of Teachers 821 downloads
Jane Irvin
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Some Key Junctures in Relational Thinking 390 downloads
Max Stephens
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Speaking with Different Voices: Knowledge Legitimation Codes of Mathematicians and Mathematics Educators 408 downloads
Steve Thornton
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Students’ Attitude Towards Using Materials to Learn Algebra: A Year 7 Case Study 814 downloads
Stephen Norton and Will Windsor
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Success and Consistency in the Use of Heuristics to Solve Mathematics Problems 561 downloads
Khoon Yoong Wong
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Teachers’ Motivation to Attend Voluntary Professional Development in K-10 Mathematics 657 downloads
Judy Anderson
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Teaching Area and Perimeter: Mathematics-Pedagogical-Content Knowledge-in-Action 5032 downloads
Kai Kow Joseph Yeo
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Teaching Mathematics and Technology through Design Practice 318 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) 611 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 225 downloads
Jill Brown, Gloria Stillman, Björn Schwarz and Gabriele Kaiser
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The Development of Students’ Use of Justification Strategies 646 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 253 downloads
Robyn Reaburn
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The Identification of Partially Correct Constructs 198 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 1315 downloads
Penelope Serow and Rosemary Callingham
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Towards a Sociocultural Framework for Understanding the Work of Mathematics Teacher-Educator-Researchers 355 downloads
Merrilyn Goos
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Use of the Internet for Teacher Professional Development and for Teaching Mathematics: Supports and Inhibitors 623 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 392 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 1218 downloads
Kathy Brady
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Using Task-Based Interviews to Assess Mathematical Thinking of Primary School Students 515 downloads
Chris Hurst
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Using Valsiner 704 downloads
Linda Galligan
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Validation of an Assessment Instrument Developed for Eliciting Student Prior Learning in Graphing and Data Analysis 274 downloads
Noleine Fitzallen
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What Does Three-quarters Look Like? Students’ Representations of Three-quarters 497 downloads
Vicki Steinle and Beth Price
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Who a Student Sits Near to in Maths: Tension between Social and Mathematical Identities 290 downloads
Naomi Ingram
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Year Five Students Solving Mental and Written Problems: What Are They Thinking? 437 downloads
Julie Clark
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“Zero is Not a Number”: Teachable Moments and their Role in Effective Teaching of Numeracy 575 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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