ARC funded projects
Discovery and Linkage Grants within the School of Education
Enabling Students’ Critical Mathematical Thinking (DP220101015)
Investigators: Prof Vincent Geiger (ACU), Professor Kim Beswick (UNSW), Associate Professor Jill Fielding (UNE), Dr Thorsten Scheiner (ACU), Prof Dr Gabriele Kaiser (ACU), Prof Merrilyn Goos (USC)
Years: 2022-2025
Project Summary:
The capacity to use mathematics critically is essential for making prudent decisions and forming balanced judgements about economic, health, environmental and other challenges facing society. Developing Critical Mathematical Thinking (CMT) in the classroom provides students with the necessary skills to address complex real-world problems. Fostering CMT, however, is difficult and teaching practices around its development are under-researched and under-theorised. This study aims to generate new insight into teaching practices that can promote or inhibit students' CMT development. To address this aim, we use an innovative video-based methodology that integrates researcher and teacher perspectives on students' CMT development.
Associated Research Outputs:
Geiger, V., Beswick, K., Fielding, J., Scheiner, T., Kaiser, G., Goos, M., & Fernandez, K. (2024). Capturing snapshots of teachers’ critical mathematical thinking noticing capabilities in the context of mathematical modelling tasks. Fifteenth International Congress of Mathematics Education – Come and be counted. Sydney, Australia, 7-14 July 2024.
Geiger, V., Beswick, K., Fielding, J., Scheiner, T., Kaiser, G., Goos, M., & Fernandez, K. (2023). Investigating critical mathematical thinking when applying mathematics to real-world problems. In P. Drijvers, C. Csapodi, H. Palmér, K. Gosztonyi, & E. Kónya (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirteenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (pp. 1177–1184). Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and ERME.
Past ARC Projects
- Adult literacy and Aboriginal community well-being in western NSW: In inveitigation of the impacts of a mass adult literacy campaign conducted in remote western NSW
- Grammar and Praxis: Investigating a grammatics for twenty-first century school English (2011–2013)
- East Timor Adult Education: An investigation into the contribution of the national adult education system to the post-conflict reconstruction and development of East Timor
- New Dimensions of Group Literacy Tests for Schools: Multimodal reading comprehension in conventional and computer-based formats
- Teaching effective 3D authoring in the middle school years: Multimedia grammatical design and multimedia authoring pedagogy
- Life Needs Model: Implementing and evaluating the life needs model for young people with cerebral palsy
- Qualitative Assessment Practices: Impact of developmentally-based qualitative assessment practices in English, Mathematics, and Science on School Policies, Classroom Instruction, and Teacher Knowledge
- Mental Health and Family Day Care: An exploratory cluster trial of a sustainable capacity building intervention to promote positive child mental health in Family Day Care
- Culturally Fair Assessment Practices: Developing culturally-fair assessment practices to achieve greater equity and success for Indigenous students
