This document contains the proceedings of the 25th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australia (MERGA) held at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The focus of this meeting is mathematics education in the South Pacific. Presentations are centered around the topic of numeracy in primary or elementary school.…

This book offers schools an assessment instrument to identify and help children who under-achieve in early numeracy. The book focuses on the Learning Framework in Number (LFIN) which guides the assessment and teaching. The LFIN consists of 11 key aspects of early number development including identifying the stages of early arithmetical learning,…

This textbook is a course in elementary arithmetic. It stresses mental as well as written exercises. Addition and subtraction are first presented together, and later multiplication and division.

Describes a fundamental arithmetic program for the ground nut plantation workers in Senegal. (GB)

Described are patterns in Pascal's triangle which are obtained when the entries are reduced modulo a prime number. (MM)

Comments on the Mathematical Balance, or Equalizer, and various mathematical wallcharts. (MM)

Four levels of quantitative comparisons based on Piagetian task analysis and three IQ levels were used to partition a population of 341 first grade children. Each child was then tested on a set of addition facts and a set of addition problems which varied according to the use of aids or transformation. (JG)

The authors suggest how the patterns in the digits in the multiplication tables may be exploited in the classroom. (MM)