Catherine Pearn

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..

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

C Pearn, W Stephens, R Pierce

Conference Proceedings  |  2018

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

Generalizing Fractional Structures: A Critical Precursor to Algebraic Thinking

Catherine Pearn, Max Stephens

Book Chapter  |  2018

Diagram Effective or Diagram Dependent? ...

Catherine Pearn, W Stephens, Robyn Pierce

Conference Proceedings  |  2018

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

Reverse fraction tasks reveal algebraic thinking

C Pearn, R Pierce, WM Stephens

Conference Proceedings  |  2017

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

C Pearn, W Stephens

Conference Proceedings  |  2016

Fraction Tasks and their links to Algebraic Thinking

C Pearn, W Stephens

Conference Proceedings  |  2016

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

Same year, same school, same curriculum: different mathematics results

C PEARN

Conference Proceedings  |  2015

Using alternative multiplication algorithms to ‘offload’ cognition

D JAZBY, C Pearn

Conference Proceedings  |  2015

Many students struggle to learn the traditional written algorithms introduced in primary school (Pearn, 2009). Heirdsfield (2004) ..