Catherine Pearn

Assessing preschool children's maps against the first four levels of the primary curriculum: lessons to learn

Caroline Cohrssen, Catherine Pearn

Journal article  |  2019  |  MATHEMATICS EDUCATION RESEARCH JOURNAL

In Australia, more attention is being paid to inclusion of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (the so-called STEM su..

Kids Count! First Steps in Counting

Catherine Pearn, Gary E Davis

Book  |  2018

This book helps parents, home-schoolers, teachers and care-givers learn the tools to carefully observe, and assist, young children..

How to Teach and Assess Whole Number Arithmetic: Some International Perspectives

J Novotná, B Kaur, A Gervasoni, M Askew, M Veldhuis, C Pearn, XH Sun

Book Chapter  |  2018  |  New Icmi Studies Series

This chapter focusses on the diverse theoretical and methodical frameworks that capture the complex relationship between whole num..

Interviews Reveal Year 8 Student's Struggle to Generalise Solutions to reverse Fraction Tasks

C Pearn, Max Stephens, R Pierce

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  ICMI-EARCOME8 Proceedingsof the 8th ICMI-East Asia Regional Conference on Mathematics Education

The links between fractional knowledge and readiness for algebra have been highlighted by many researchers such as Wu (2001); Jaco..

Diagram Effective or Diagram Dependent? ...

Catherine Pearn, Max Stephens, Robyn Pierce

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia

This paper will focus on two students who depended on diagrammatic representations in both a Fraction Screening Test and in a subs..

Generalizing Fractional Structures: A Critical Precursor to Algebraic Thinking

Catherine Pearn, Max Stephens

Book Chapter  |  2018

Reverse fraction tasks reveal algebraic thinking

C Pearn, R Pierce, Max Stephens

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education

Competence with Fractions in Fifth or Sixth Grade as a Unique Predictor of Algebraic Thinking?

C Pearn, Max Stephens

Conference Proceedings  |  2016  |  Proceedings of the 39th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia

Fraction Tasks and their links to Algebraic Thinking

C Pearn, Max Stephens

Conference Proceedings  |  2016  |  Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education: ICME 13

This paper will discuss how Year 6 elementary school students who have yet to meet formal algebraic notation create algebraic mean..

Misuse of the equals sign: An entrenched practice from early primary years to tertiary mathematics

J Vincent, C Bardini, R Pierce, C Pearn

Journal article  |  2015  |  Australian Senior Mathematics Journal