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This Document Contains Volumes 1 And 2 Of The Proceedings Of The 23rd Annual Conference Of The Mathematics Education Research Group Of Australasia Incorporated (merga) Held At Fremantle, Western Australia, July 5-9, 2000. Papers In Volume 1 Include: (1) Bridging Practices: Intertwining Content And Pedagogy In Teaching And Learning To Teach (deborah Loewenberg Ball); (2) Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards, And Looking For Direction (andy Begg); (3) Bridging The Gap: A Challenge For The Dual Community (john A. Malone); (4) Collaborative Problem Solving In Senior Secondary Mathematics Classrooms (merrilyn Goos); (5) Changing The Professional Knowledge Of Teachers (janette Bobis And Peter Gould); (6) Teachers, Students And Research: One Possibility For Teaching Early Numeracy (philip Clarkson); (7) Mapping Children's Stages Of Arithmetical Solution Methods (peter Gould And Robert Wright); (8) Reviewing Literature Relevant To A Systemic Early Numeracy Initiative: Bases Of Cmit (robert Wright And Peter Gould); (9) Emergence Of Mathematical (in)competence And Identity (pat Forster And Peter Taylor); (10) Is There More To Numeracy Than Meets The Eye? Stories Of Socialization And Subjectification In School Mathematics (mary Klein); (11) Mental Effort And Errors In Bracket Expansion Tasks (paul Ayres); (12) Developing Task Specific Criteria: A Preliminary Report (dawn Bartlett); (13) Construction Of A Numeration Model: A Theoretical Analysis (annette Baturo); (14) Modes Of Representation In Students' Explanations (brenda Bicknell); And (15)what Is Taught Versus What Is Learnt: The Case Of Linear Measurement (philippa Bragg And Lynne Outhred). Papers In Volume 2 Include: (1) Classroom And Teacher Effects In Mathematics Achievement: Results From Timss (stephen Lamb And Sue Fullarton); (2) 3-dimensional Geometry: Assessment Of Students' Responses (chrisitine Lawrie And John Pegg); (3) Mathematics And Gender: Beliefs They Are A-changin' (gilah Leder And Helen Forgasz); (4) Infor