Using technology to support effective mathematics teaching and learning : What counts ?

Merrilyn Goos is Director of the Teaching and Educational Development Institute at The University of Queensland. From 1998–2007 Professor Goos co-ordinated pre-service and postgraduate courses in mathematics education at UQ. Her research in mathematics education has investigated secondary school students’ learning, teaching approaches that promote higher order thinking, mathematics teachers’ learning and development, and the professional learning of mathematics teacher educators. This work has been supported by two ARC Large Grants and two ARC Discovery Grants. Professor Goos has also led large-scale, cross-institutional research projects commissioned by the Australian and Queensland Governments in numeracy education and school reform. In 2004 she won an Australian Award for University Teaching, followed in 2006 by an Associate Fellowship of the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (now the Australian Learning and Teaching Council). Professor Goos is currently President of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia. Abstract