Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Having completed my PhD in 2017, I am interested in three interelated goals for primary mathematics education:
- For effective, student-centred pedagogies to be embraced across all Australian primary classrooms.
- For mathematics learning to be effectively differentiated, in a manner that is both inclusive and well targeted to student learning needs.
- For mathematics to be enjoyable to learn and teach.
My professional purpose is to shift our edicational system further towards all three of these goals, starting with better supporting teachers.
My major research interest relating to working towards these three goals is in learning design and its implementation in classrooms. This includes looking at issues such as:
- Task design: What is the role of challenging tasks, games and narrative-rich problem-solving tasks as pedagogical approaches to support effective, differentiated and enjoyable mathematics instruction? How are these pedagogies actually utilised in classrooms?
- Lesson structure: How does how the lesson is organised interact with the student learning experience, including their changing emotional states as the lesson unfolds? How can differentiation be effectively built into the structure of a lesson? How does shifting from individual work to collaborative work impact the student learning experience?
- Sequencing learning: How can we effectively sequence learning with effective pedagogies (e.g., challenging tasks, mathematical games)? How does the student emotional experience track across several, interconnected learning experiences?
I am keen to engage with potential higher-degree research students interested in inquiring into issues of learning design and its implementation in a primary mathematics context.
Research area keywords
- Mathematics Education
- Maths Education
- Challenging Tasks
- Primary Education
- Games
- Teacher Education
- Teacher Research
- Teacher Emotions
- Teacher Attitudes
- Teacher Beliefs
- Student Emotions
- Student Engagement
- Research and Practice
- Estimation
- Mental Computation
- Number Sense
- Early Childhood Education
- Transforming teaching and learning
- Educating for diversity and inclusion
Network
Projects
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Exploring mathematical sequences of connected cumulative challenging tasks
Sullivan, P., Bobis, J., Downton, A., Livy, S., Russo, J., Stenning, P. & Giannopoulos, J.
Australian Research Council (ARC), Catholic Education Melbourne, Catholic Diocese of Paramatta
4/09/19 → 3/09/22
Project: Research
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Exploring mathematical sequences of connected, cumulative and challenging tasks in the early years
Downton, A., Livy, S. & Russo, J.
30/01/19 → 30/11/19
Project: Research
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Turning inquiry experiences into robust learning: Exploring the potential of structured mathematics learning sequences
Livy, S., Downton, A., Russo, J., Sullivan, P., McCormick, M., Hughes, S., Bobis, J. & Cheong, S.
14/03/18 → 19/05/19
Project: Research
Research output
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Primary teacher attitudes towards productive struggle in mathematics in remote learning versus classroom-based settings
Russo, J., Bobis, J., Downton, A., Livy, S. & Sullivan, P., Jan 2021, In : Education Sciences. 11, 2, p. 1-13 13 p., 35.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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The influence of making predictions on the accuracy of numerosity estimates in elementary-aged children
Russo, J., MacDonald, A. & Russo, T., 2021, (Accepted/In press) In : International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education. 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Aspirations for mathematics learning: the voice of primary mathematics middle leaders
Roche, A., Russo, J., Kalogeropoulos, P. & Vale, C., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Mathematics Education Research Journal. 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Characteristics of learning environments in which students are open to risk taking and mistake making
Sullivan, P., Bobis, J., Downton, A., Feng, M., Livy, S., Hughes, S., McCormick, M. & Russo, J., 2020, In : Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom. 25, 2, p. 3-7 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
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Designing and scaffolding rich mathematical learning experiences with challenging tasks
Russo, J., 2020, In : Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom. 25, 1, p. 3-10 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review