Conference Proceedings 1999

Title
Title pages
 
Content
Table of Contents
 
Preface
 
List of Reviewers
LIST OF REFEREES FOR MERGA 22 PUBLISHED PAPERS
 
Keynote Address
MAKING SENSE OF PRIMARY MATHEMATICS
Gillian M. Boulton-Lewis
RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA: WHAT IT WAS - WHAT IT IS - WHAT IT MIGHT BE
J.P. Keeves
SEEKING A RATIONALE FOR PARTICULAR CLASSROOM TASKS AND ACTIVITY
Peter Sullivan
 
Practical Implication Award
SUCCESSFUL PERCENT PROBLEM SOLVING FOR YEAR 8 STUDENTS USING THE PROPORTIONAL NUMBER LINE METHOD
Shelley Dole
 
Symposium
 
Research Paper
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE SEXES IN MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT IN AUSTRALIA
Tilahun Mengesha Afrassa & John P. Keeves
CUMULATIVE AND EXPLORATORY TALK IN A COLLABORATIVE LEARNING CLASSROOM
Mary Barnes
A CASE STUDY OF TEACHER ENDORSEMENT OF AN INTEGRATED LEARNING SYSTEM
Annette R. Baturo & Campbell J. McRobbie & Tom J. Cooper & Gillian C. Kidman
ENACTIVISM AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
Andy Begg
THE WRITING OF EXPLANATIONS AND JUSTIFICATIONS IN MATHEMATICS: DIFFERENCES AND DILEMMAS
Brenda Bicknell
THE MATHEMATICAL ACHIEVEMENT OF CHILDREN IN THE COUNT ME IN TOO PROGRAM
Janette Bobis & Peter Gould
MATHEMATICS, ICT AND EFFECTIVE TEACHING
Rod Bramald & Steve Higgins
MATHEMATICS TEACHERS AND THE VCE: BROADENING THE EDUCATIONAL LANDSCAPE
Christine Brew, Gilah Leder & Glenn Rowley
AN EXPLORATION OF GENDER DIFFERENCES IN SUBJECT CHOICE AND BELIEFS AMONG YEAR 12 STUDENTS
Peter C Brinkworth
SPEAKING WITH AUTHORITY IN EPISODES OF MATHEMATICAL DISCOURSE
Raymond A J Brown & Peter Renshaw
DO GAMES HELP THE LEARNING OF PROBABILITY?
Tim Burgess
INVENTED ALGORITHMS: TEACHERS FACE THE CHALLENGE
Anne Buzeika
DEVELOPING PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT TASKS IN MATHEMATICS: A CASE STUDY
Rosemary A. Callingham
CHILDREN'S INFORMAL COMPOSITE AND TRUNCATED PARTITIONING STRATEGIES
Kathy Charles & Rod Nason
JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS: DATA INTERPRETATION BY YOUNG ADULTS
Helen L. Chick
THE USE OF CONCEPT MAPPING PROCEDURE TO CHARACTERISE TEACHERS' MATHEMATICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE
Mohan Chinnappan & Michael Lawson & Rod Nason
CONCEPTUAL MODELLING OF FUNCTIONS BY AN EXPERIENCED TEACHER
Mohan Chinnappan & Mike Thomas
EQUALS, EXPRESSIONS, EQUATIONS, AND THE MEANING OF VARIABLE: A TEACHING EXPERIMENT
Tom .T. Cooper & Annette R. Baturo & Anne M. WiIliams
ASSESSING DIAGRAM QUALITY: MAKING A DIFFERENCE TO REPRESENTATION
Carmel M Diezmann
ENHANCED MATHEMATICS LEARNING: DOES TECHNOLOGY MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
Katherine Dix
OF COURSE I CAN'T DO MATHEMATICS: ETHNICITY AND THE STEREOTYPING OF MATHEMATICS
Helen J Forgasz, Gilah C Leder, & Tasos Barkatsas
STUDENT PARTICIPATION: PHENOMENON AND ANALYSIS
Patricia A. Forster
A TALE OF TWO CITIES: WHEN MATHEMATICS, COMPUTERS, AND STUDENTS MEET
Peter Galbraith & Chris Haines & Mike Pemberton
TECHNOLOGY, MATHEMATICS, AND PEOPLE: INTERACTIONS IN A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
Peter Galbraith & Peter Renshaw & MerriIyn Goos & Vince Geiger
TEACHERS EXPLORING NUMERACY LEARNING & TEACHING IN THE EARLY YEARS OF SCHOOLING
Ann Gervasoni
UNDERSTANDING MATHEMATICAL TEXT THROUGH PEER EXPLANATIONS
Merrilyn Goos
EMERGING THEMES IN STATISTICS EDUCATION
Sharon Gunn
MENTAL ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION STRATEGIES: TWO CASE STUDIES
Ann Heirdsfield
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK OF GROWTH POINTS TO MONITOR STUDENTS' COMPREHENSION OF ALGEBRA IN GRADES 7-9
Marj Horne
INFLUENCES ON SECONDARY MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM IN VICTORIA
John Horwood
DEAF STUDENTS SOLVING OF ARITHMETIC WORD PROBLEMS
Merv Hyde & Des Power & Robyn Zevenbergen
MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE IN A MATHEMATICS TEACHING EPISODE
Clive Kanes
LEARNING STYLES IN SECONDARY MATHEMATICS CLASSROOMS
Stephen Keast
GRADE 4, 6 AND 8 STUDENTS' STRATEGIES IN AREA MEASUREMENT
Gillian C. Kidman
AGENCY/NUMERACY: A POSTSTRUCTURALIST ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLASSROOM MATHEMATICS AND NUMERACY IN NEW TIMES
Mary Klein
ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS' UNDERSTANDING IN GEOMETRY: THE DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING GOOD QUESTIONS
Christine Lawrie & John Pegg
EXTENDED COMMON ASSESSMENT TASKS IN VCE MATHEMATICS:VALIDITY, RELIABILITY AND OTHER ISSUES
David Leigh-Lancaster & Ken Rowe
FREE PROBLEM-POSING: YEAR 3/4 STUDENTS CONSTRUCTING PROBLEMS FOR FRIENDS TO SOLVE
Tom Lowrie
CHILDREN'S GENERATED WORD PROBLEMS: A CASE STUDY
K. J. Maguire
THE LEARNING NETWORKS OF ISOLATED TEACHERS: THE USE OF AUDIOGRAPHICS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY TO BUILD A VIRTUAL MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
H Elaine Mayo & Kevin Hannah
AN ANALYSIS OF THE TEACHER'S PROACTIVE ROLE IN SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYMBOLIZATIONS
Kay McClain & Paul Cobb
LEARNING CALCULUS WITH SUPERCALCULATORS
Barry McCrae, Gary Asp & Margaret Kendal
TEACHER MEDIATION OF STUDENT CONSTRUCTIONS OF ALGEBRA KNOWLEDGE
Brenda Menzel & David Clarke
HOW TO TEACH GENERALISATIONS IN MATHEMATICS?
Michael Mitchelmore
THE CONJUNCTION FALLACY AND LONGITUDINAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHANCE EXPRESSION
Jonathan B. Moritz & Jane M. Watson
PERCEPTIONS OF MATHEMATICAL UNDERSTANDING
Judith A. Mousley
GRAPHICS CALCULATORS IN THE PUBLIC EXAMINATION OF CALCULUS: MISUSES AND MISCONCEPTIONS
Ute Mueller & Patricia A. Forster
SECONDARY MATHEMATICS TEACHERS' RESPONSES TO COMPUTERS AND THEIR BELIEFS ABOUT THE ROLE OF COMPUTERS IN THEIR TEACHING
Stephen Norton
VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS IN FIRST YEAR STATISTICS
Lynne Outhred & Pamela F. Shaw
AN ANALYSIS OF YEAR 12 STUDENTS' PERFORMANCES ON BASIC ALGEBRA QUESTIONS
John Pegg & Robyn Hadfield
SOME LANGUAGE ISSUES IN THE ASSESSMENT OF SECONDARY MATHEMATICS
Bob Perry, Peter Howard, & Brian Miller
COMPUTER ALGEBRA SYSTEMS FACILITATE POSITIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES
Robyn Pierce
THE CONFLICT BETWEEN TEACHERS' BELIEFS AND CLASSROOM PRACTICES
Mal Shield
UNDERSTANDING DECIMALS: THE PATH TO EXPERTISE
Kaye Stacey & Vicki Steinle
ACCESSIBILITY OF APPLICATIONS TASKS
Gloria StilIman
CHOICES OF COMPUTATIONAL STRATEGIES
Paul Swan & Jack Bana
REDUCING THE INCIDENCE OF MATHEMATICAL MISCONCEPTIONS IN 'MIDDLE BAND' STUDENTS
Philip Swedosh
CHILDREN'S UNDERSTANDING OF THE NUMBER SYSTEM
Noel Thomas & Joanne Mulliigan
THE CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE OF TEACHERS' BELIEFS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON TEACHING PRACTICES: A CASE STUDY OF TWO TEACHERS TEACHING SECONDARY MATHEMATICS IN AUSTRALIA AND INDONESIA
Theresia Tirta Gondoseputro
GRAPHICS CALCULATORS IN VICTORIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS: TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF USE
Patrick Tobin & AlIa Routitsky & Peter Jones
CABRI GEOMETRY: A CATALYST FOR GROWTH IN GEOMETRIC UNDERSTANDING
JiIl Vincent & Barry McCrae
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PURPORTED USE OF ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES AND BELIEFS ABOUT THE USES OF ASSESSMENT
Elizabeth Warren & Steven Nisbet
LONGITUDINAL UNDERSTANDING OF CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY BY SCHOOL STUDENTS
Jane M. Watson & .Jonathan B. Moritz
MATHEMATICS: MORE TIME, MORE TICKS!
Martin Watts & Leo Crameri & Suzanne MiIlar
TEACHER ACTION THEORIES AND THE USE OF GROUP WORK IN UPPER PRIMARY MATHEMATICS CLASSROOMS
AlIan White
EXPLORING DIVERSITY: YEAR 2 STUDENTS' RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS CONCERNING SIMPLE 2D SHAPES
Jacquelyn Whitland & John Pegg
NOVICE STUDENTS' CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE OF STATISTICAL HYPOTHESIS TESTING
Anne M. Williams

Shirley M. Yates
 
Short Communication (abstract only)
Short communications (abstracts)
 
Poster (abstract only)
 
Round Table (abstract only)