Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Education


   Dr. Wanty Widjaja

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Position Lecturer in Mathematics Education
Email w.widjaja@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Education
Phone +61 3 924 46922
Campus Burwood
Location Melbourne Burwood Campus
Role and profile Lecturer in Bachelor of Education (Primary)
Teaching responsibilities Lecturer ESM 310 Teacher and Mathematics: Creating an inquiry-based classroom
Lecturer ESM 210 Children and Mathematics: Developing Mathematics Concepts
Unit chair ESM 438: Evaluating Children's Progress
Research interests Mathematical modelling, Educational design research, Design of contextualised tasks, Realistic Mathematics Mathematics
Current research projects Wanty is currently involved as a chief investigator in a research to adapt structured problem solving using the Japanese Lesson Study approach with three schools in the Western Metropolitan region of Melbourne. She has collaborated with NIE colleagues in Singapore to publish their work from the 2011 project "Professional Development Platform for Infusing Modelling Tasks (PDPIMT) in mathematics curriculum at Primary 5".
Qualifications PhD The University of Melbourne
MEd Boston University
BEd Universitas Sanata Dharma
Memberships Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA)
Indonesian Mathematical Society (IndoMS)
Conferences PME (2005, 2006),MERGA (2005, 2007, 2009, 2010), ICTMA (2011), EARCOME (2010), CoSMED (2009), ICSEI (2009), MAV (2012)
Research link View Deakin associated research data
Publications

Widjaja, W., & Vale, C. (2013). Deepening teachers' understanding of content and students' thinking: The case of Japanese Lesson Study in Australian primary classrooms. In M. Inprasitha (Ed.), The 6th East Asia Regional Conference on Mathematics Education (EARCOME 6): Innovations and Exemplary Practices in Mathematics Education (Vol. 3, pp. 266-275). Phuket, Thailand: Center for Research in Mathematics Education.

Chan, C.M.E., Ng, K.E.D., Widjaja, W., Seto, C. (2012). Assessment of primary 5 students' mathematical modelling competencies. Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia. 35(2), 146-178.

Widjaja, W. (2012). Exercising the socio-mathematical norms in classroom discourse: Insigths from a case study of a Grade 6 lesson in Indonesia. The Mathematics Educator 13(2), 21-38.

Ng, K. E. D., Widjaja, W., Chan, E. C. C. M., & Seto, C. (2012). Activating teacher critical moments of learning through reflection Proceedings of 12th International Congress on Mathematics Education (pp. 3347-3356). Seoul: ICME.

Seto, C., Madgalene, T. M., Ng, K. E. D., Chan, C. M. E., & Widjaja, W. (2012). Mathematical Modelling for Singapore Primary Classrooms: From a Teacher’s Lens. In J. Dindyal, L. P. Cheng & S. F. Ng (Eds.), MERGA 33 (pp. 672-679). Singapore: MERGA.

Widjaja, W., Stacey, K., & Steinle, V. (2011). Locating negative decimals on the number line: Insights into the thinking of pre-service primary teachers. Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 30(1), 80-91.

Widjaja, W. (2011). Towards Mathematical Literacy: Perspectives from Indonesia. Southeast Asian Mathematics Education Journal, 1(1), 75-84.

Chan, C.M.E., Widjaja, W., & Ng, K.E.D. (2011). Exemplifying a model-eliciting task for primary school pupils. Southeast Asian Mathematics Education Journal, 1, 65-74.

Widjaja, W., Dolk, M., Fauzan, A. (2010). The role of contexts and teachers’ questioning to enhance students’ thinking. Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia. Vol. 33 No. 2, 168-186.

Dolk, M., Widjaja, W., Zonneveld, E., Fauzan, A. (2010). Examining teachers’ role in relation to their beliefs and expectations about students’ thinking in design research. In R. Sembiring, K. Hoogland, M.
Dolk. (Eds). A decade of PMRI in Indonesia. (175-187). Utrecht: APS International.

Widjaja, W. & Dolk, M. (2010). Building, supporting, and enhancing teachers’ capacity to foster mathematical learning: Insights from Indonesian classroom. In Y. Shimizu, Y. Sekiguchi & K. Hino (Eds.), the Proceedings of the 5th EARCOME (Vol. 2, pp. 332-339). Tokyo: 18-22 August 2010: ICMI.

Widjaja, W. (2010). Modelling the cooling of coffee: Insights from a preliminary study in Indonesia. In L. Sparrow, B. Kissane & C. Hurst (Eds.), Shaping the future of mathematics education: Proceedings of the 33rd annual conference of MERGA conference (pp. 626-633). Fremantle: MERGA.

Widjaja, W. (2009). Enhancing prospective teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) using classroom video cases. In U.H. Cheah, Wahyudi, R.B. Devadson, K.H. Ng, W. Preechaporn, & J.C. Aligaen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Science and Mathematics. (457-465). Penang: SEAMEO RECSAM.

Widjaja, W. & Stacey, K. (2009). Growth of pre-service teachers’ knowledge and teaching ideas about decimals and fractions: The case of Vivi. In R. Hunter, B. Bicknell & T. Burges (Eds.), Crossing Divides(Vol. 2., 587-595). Palmerston North: MERGA.

Widjaja, W., Stacey, K., & Steinle, V. (2008). Misconceptions about density of decimals: Insights from pre-service teacher's work Journal for Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 31(2), 117-131.

Pierce, R., Steinle, V., Stacey, K., & Widjaja, W. (2008). Understanding decimal numbers: a foundation for correct calculations. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 5(1), 1-15.



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