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A new issue of International Journal of Early Childhood has recently been published, and it contains two articles that focus on mathematics. The first article, " Mathematically-Relevant Input During Play of a Caregiver With a Visual Impairment and Her Toddler ", was written by Joanne Lee, Donna Kotsopoulos and Caryl-Anne Stordy. It has the following abstract: This research investigated play between two caregivers, one with a visual impairment, and their 15-month-old daughter. The mother has a visual impairment. We aimed to identify the similarities and differences in mathematically-relevant input by comparing the 30-min naturalistic play session conducted separately between the mother–daughter and the father–daughter dyad. The mother in this research participated in two 5-week community-based early numeracy sessions with her daughter. Results revealed that the toddler engaged in more joint attention with her father who also produced more mathematically-relevant utterances t...

The 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association is history, and I enjoyed it a lot! The conference started off Friday morning, April 13, with a number of interesting sessions. In the afternoon, the opening plenary lecture by Professor Linda T. Smith marked the official opening of the conference. In this session, a particular focus on indigineous education was made. To me, this represented a fairly new and very interesting set of perspectives. A refreshing start of such a huge conference! I am not going to present a full overview of all the sessions I attended, because there is simply far too much to say about that! Instead, I will share some of my favourite moments from the conference. I attended quite a few sessions from SIG-Research in Mathematics Education. I particularly enjoyed the one on " Mathematical Teachers' Beliefs and Knowledge ". The presentation by Cindy Jong –where she told us about the MECS instrument–was of particular interest to...

The annual meeting of the  American Educational Research Association (AERA)  is coming up this week, and I am looking forward to attending this year's meeting! Last (and only!) time I attended the AERA conference was in 2009 in San Diego. This year, the conference is held in Vancouver (Canada), and I am looking forward to a great conference. I am presenting a paper in a symposium session this year. Our symposium session is entitled:  Defining and Measuring What Math and Science Teachers Need to Know: Implications for Professional Development  and will take place on Sunday morning (April 15), so if you are in Vancouver it would have been nice to see you there :-) Our symposium session is chaired by Professor Elaine Munthe (also from the University of Stavanger ). The discussant in our session is  Professor Hilda Borko (Stanford). If interested, you can read our paper below: [googleapps domain="docs" dir="viewer" query="authuser=0&srcid=0Bz2cnF3RVf4YdUdk...