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Cath Pearn is a Teaching Fellow of the ACER Institute where she teaches post graduate courses in Mathematics Education. Cath is also a lecturer in Mathematics Education at the University of Melbourne where she teaches early childhood, primary and special education students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Cath was part of the team from Melbourne University to write the Mathematics Developmental Continuum.

Since 1992 Cath has been involved in research projects investigating how students learn mathematics at the early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary levels, particularly students mathematically “at risk”. She has a particular interest in how Indigenous students learn mathematics and has presented a number of papers on this topic. In 1993 she developed Mathematics Intervention for Year 1 students. She has been an advisor for a variety of Early Years, the Primary Years and the Middle Years Numeracy Research Projects.

Cath has been an invited participant on several important federal and state government groups. She assisted with the writing of the Australian Numeracy Benchmarks and the rewriting of CSF2 and Course Advice for Victoria. She was the numeracy expert for the School Entry Assessment project in Victoria. The most recent invitations as a member of the Mathematics Expert Panel for the Department of Education and Early Childhood (DEECD) and as a member giving feedback to the draft Australian Curriculum documents.

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