The Mathematics Education Special Sessions at the AustMS Meeting at Flinders University created significant interest, with 20 presentations, a workshop and inaugural meeting of the Special Interest Group in Mathematics Education (SIGME).

Presentations

• Amie Albrecht (Uni. SA)
  Developing mathematical thinking through puzzles and games (slides)(video 43.9 MB)
• Tristram Alexander (UNSW)
  Assessing for student problem solving ability
• John Banks (U. Melbourne)
  Spreadsheet drawing of plant branching from modified Lindenmeyer grammars (slides)
• Caroline Bardini (U Melbourne)
  Symbols: do university students mean what they write and write what they mean? (slides)
• Jon Borwein (U Newcastle)
  A short walk can be beautiful (slides)
• Ant Edwards (Swinburne UT)
  Student reasoning about real-valued sequences.Insights from an example-generation study (slides)
• Deborah Jackson (La Trobe)
  Development and implementation of a first year statistics subject for senior secondary indigenous students to encourage future engagement in tertiary studies (slides)
• Carolyn Kennett (Macquarie U)
  Reflections on using vodcasts as an assessment item in first-year units
• Jonathan Kress (UNSW)
  Online tutorials with Youtube and Maple TA: the experience so far
• Birgit Loch (Swinburne UT)
  Making mathematics relevant to first-year engineering students
• Christine Mangelsdorf (U Melbourne)
  Understanding and addressing poor student performance in first year university calculus
• Diana Quinn (Uni SA)
  Learning from experience: developing mathematics courses for an online engineering degree
• John Rice (U Sydney)
  Galileo and Calculus Unlimited
• Katherine Seaton (La Trobe U)
  Pipelines, ceilings and acid rain
• Don Shearman (U Western Sydney)
  Great Expectations: I expect to pass because I already know all this stuff (slides)
• Sven Trenholm (Uni SA)
  The Effectiveness of Fully Online Undergraduate Mathematics Instruction (slides)
• Lesley Ward (Uni SA)
  Mathematics and Australian Indigenous Culture: Building cultural awareness, competency and literacy in mathematics students at UniSA
• Kevin White (Uni SA)
  Mind the Gap: Exploring knowledge decay in online sequential mathematics courses (slides) (video (35.4 MB)
• Aaron Wiegand (U Sunshine Coast)
  To all first-year Calculus students: *pleeease* attend the classes! (video, 40.0 MB)
• Leigh Wood (Macquarie U)
  Mathematics and statistics modules for pre-service teachers (video (39.1 MB))