Professional Interests
Teaching of place value concepts and computation methods in primary schools
Constructivist pedagogies in mathematics, science and technology
Integration of computer technology in classrooms

Professional Affiliations
Member, Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia

Personal Interests
Mathematics software design
Jogging
Bush walking with his family
Playing guitar & drums

Selected Publications & Presentations
Price, PS 1997, 'Teacher Presence as a Variable in Research Into Students' Mathematical Decision-Making', In People in Mathematics Education (Proceedings of the 20th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Rotorua, New Zealand, pp. 422-428), ed. F Biddulph & K Carr.

Price, PS 1997, 'The Overdue Revolution in Computation Teaching', Micromath, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 36.

Price, PS 1998, August, 'Counting or Conceptualising?: Using Place-Value Blocks or a Computer to Teach Place-Value Concepts', In European Research in Mathematics Education I, Proceedings of the First Conference of the European Society for Mathematics Education, vol. 1, ed. I Schwank, Forschungsinstitut fuer Mathematikdidaktik, Osnabrück, Germany, http://www.fmd.uni-osnabrueck.de/ebooks/erme/cerme1-proceedings/papers/g2-price.pdf [Accessed 30 June 2003].

Price, PS, & Price, PM 1999, Hi-Flyer Maths - Decimals, v. 1.02, (Computer software), Hi-Flyer Software, Brisbane.

Chalmers, C, & Price, PS 2000, 'Promoting Gender Equity in the Information Technology Classroom', Australian Educational Computing, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 13-16.

Price, PS 2000, July, MABs, Bundling Sticks, Bean Sticks & More: Children Developing Meaningful Number Models, Seminar session presented at CSAQ 2000 Conference, Brisbane.

Price, PS 2000, September, Making Sense of Numbers: Do MABs Really Help?, Seminar session presented at QAMTAC 2000 Conference, Gold Coast, Queensland.

Price, PS 2001, The Development of Year 3 Students' Place-Value Understanding: Representations and Concepts, PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, http://adt.library.qut.edu.au/adt-qut/public/adt-QUT20020412.102204/index.html [Accessed 5 August 2002].

Price, PS 2002, 'Children's Difficulties With Base-Ten Numbers: "Face-Value" and "Independent-Place" Constructs', in Mathematics Education in the South Pacific (Proceedings of the 25th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Auckland, New Zealand), ed. K Irwin & M Thomas, MERGA, Sydney.