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Open AccessThe confluence of attitudes towards mathematics and pedagogical practice: evaluating the use of mathematical manipulatives
The use of manipulatives to develop conceptual understanding is a prevalent practice in many mathematical learning experiences, particularly in the early years of schooling. From primary student perspectives, our...
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Open AccessThe university mathematics lecture: to record, or not to record, that is the question
While recordings of lectures proved invaluable for students’ learning during the pandemic, as our university transitioned back to in-person teaching there was a call from many lecturers to remove the requireme...
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Open AccessThe stability of mathematics students’ beliefs about working with CAS
In Victoria, Australia, senior secondary mathematics students are expected to use technology and thus need to make decisions about using pen-and-paper (P&P) or technology when solving mathematics problems. The...
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Open AccessMethodologies to reveal young Australian Indigenous students’ mathematical proficiency
A 7-month mathematics proficiency program was conducted in a primary Australian Indigenous community school. This paper focuses on outlining the specific methodologies employed to explore how students’ mathema...
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Open AccessExploring children’s negotiation of meanings about “D” in 2D and 3D shapes in a year 5/6 New Zealand primary classroom
The mathematical construct of dimension is one of the fundamental ideas for develo** a sound understanding of two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) shapes. Yet, research in mathematics education ha...
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Open AccessInterpreting young children’s multiplicative strategies through their drawn representations
The exploration of children’s drawings as mathematical representations is a current focus in early years mathematics education research. This paper presents a qualitative analysis of 72 kindergarten to Grade 3...
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Open AccessDesigning specific tools to enhance the numeracy of adults with intellectual disabilities
Numeracy is important for everyday life. Being numerate has a positive impact on the quality of life of individuals, with positive economic, health, and social outcomes. Despite this, little is known about the...
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Open AccessA systematic review of TPACK research in primary mathematics education
This study is a systematic review of Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) studies concerning primary mathematics education published between 2005 and 2022. The aim of the systematic review w...
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Open AccessMathematics education researchers’ practices in interdisciplinary collaborations: Embracing different ways of knowing
Mathematics education researchers (MERs) use practices unique to the mathematics education discipline to conduct their work. MERs’ practices, i.e., ways of being, interacting, and operating, define the field o...
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Open AccessEffects of a Learning Trajectory for statistical inference on 9th-grade students’ statistical literacy
In our data-driven society, it is essential for students to become statistically literate. A core domain within Statistical Literacy is Statistical Inference, the ability to draw inferences from sample data. A...
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Open AccessProfiles of general, test, and mathematics anxiety in 9- and 12-year-olds: relations to gender and mathematics achievement
As international focus increasingly turns to the need to build a future mathematics workforce, research has aimed to better understand the salient individual and contextual factors that influence maths engagem...
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Open AccessPromoting statistical thinking in year 12 multilingual classrooms: a collaborative study
There are challenges making connections between language use and mathematics in mathematics education. A lack of connections between the two domains can have negative consequences on student learning and perfo...
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Open AccessThe development of high school students’ statistical literacy across grade level
The capacity to interrogate data with critical thinking is a strong predictor of statistical literacy (SL). This data interrogation, from the data consumers’ perspective, incorporates four complex response ski...
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Open AccessStatistics education research at the school level in Australia and New Zealand: A 30-year journey
The introduction of statistical concepts into school curricula in Australia and New Zealand in the early 1990s initiated an ongoing research program into the learning and teaching of statistics and probability...
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Open AccessImplementing a pedagogical cycle to support data modelling and statistical reasoning in years 1 and 2 through the Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Science (IMS) project
This paper illustrates how years 1 and 2 students were guided to engage in data modelling and statistical reasoning through interdisciplinary mathematics and science investigations drawn from an Australian 3-y...
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Open AccessCognitive tuning in the STEM classroom: communication processes supporting children’s changing conceptions about data
The teaching and learning of statistical thinking begins at a young age in Australia, with a focus on data representation and interpretation from Foundation Year (age 5), and the collection, sorting and catego...
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Open AccessAn empirically validated rational number sense framework
A theoretical model describing Grade 7 students’ rational number sense was formulated and validated empirically (n = 360), hypothesizing that rational number sense is a general construct consisting of three facto...
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Open AccessHow can procedural flowcharts support the development of mathematics problem-solving skills?
Supporting students’ problem-solving skills, solution planning and sequencing of different stages that are involved in successfully develo** a meaningful solution to a problem has been a challenge for teache...
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Open AccessExploring the challenges of learning quadratic equations and reflecting upon curriculum structure and implementation
An important topic of study in secondary mathematics is non-linear functions, including quadratic equations. In this study, findings from 25 Year 11 students indicated that difficulties with critical prerequis...
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Open AccessMawng maths: collaborating to teach mathematics in an Australian Indigenous language
There are both educational and cultural benefits to first language (L1) instruction, particularly in the early years of school, but in Australia, few Indigenous language–speaking students are taught in their o...
