Wee Tiong Seah

Identifying (students’) values/valuing
This article presents a nice example of how values/valuing can be more authentically identified. At the same time it illustrates what I often say to teachers, that we need not introduce additional components to our classroom teaching practice in order to harness values/valuing to improve mathematics education. https://doi.org/10.14935/jssep.49.0_691
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/12/22/identifying-students-values-valuing
Catching-up meeting (16 Dec 2025)
The video recording of the Third Wave Lab catching-up meeting in Melbourne on 16 Dec 2025 is available here: https://youtu.be/mU-gN3OK4QA The session included two presentations, one by Megan Mu (Monash University), and another by Monica Carr (Wenzhou-Kean University).
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/12/17/1681
Congrats, Prof Chiu!
Congrats, Mei Shiu, for the just-published article on valuing pedagogy (Third Wave Lab’s Study 11)! Looking forward to reading it later today! https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/17286
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/10/18/congrats-prof-chiu
Come join us here at the Faculty of Education!
Calling on senior academics within the Third Wave family to consider applying for this prestigious Chair position! For details, please see here. Applications close on 10 Nov 2025.
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/10/13/come-join-us-here-at-the-faculty-of-education
‘Future fit mathematics education’ questionnaire invite
(Sending this on behalf of Dr Julia Hill) Dear values research colleagues, I’m reaching out to invite you to participate in an important new research (Ethics #8432) study led by Dr Laura Tuohilampi (UNSW’s School of Education) and me (RMIT University School of Education). The study, “Future fit mathematics education,” directly explores the values, social […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/09/29/future-fit-mathematics-education-questionnaire-invite
Students’ valuing of maths (in TIMSS 2023)
Grade 8 students’ valuing of mathematics was examined in relation to their mathematics performance in the latest cycle of TIMSS. The report can be found here, and the dataset is available for download here.
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/08/21/students-valuing-of-maths-in-timss-2023
Meeting up over dinner at EARCOME9 Conference
Some of us attending the EARCOME 9 Conference in Korea in 2025 Jul met up over dinner for a catch-up and chat. It was a heartwarming evening! [Click on title above for the video]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/08/14/meeting-up-over-dinner-at-earcome9-conference
Next seminar in Melbourne. All welcome!
All are welcomed to a seminar session on values alignment in Melbourne on 19 Aug (Tue), to be delivered by Assoc Prof Fatma Nur Aktaş (Kahramanmaraş Sütçü Imam University, Turkiye)!Click on the title above for details.(Note that this seminar will take place in-person only)
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/08/14/next-seminar-in-melbourne-all-welcome
Everything depend on our values
Words like ‘purposes’ and ‘intentions’ could have been used in place of ‘values’ by Professor Guy Claxton in this ppt slide shown, at his sell-out, brilliant Dean’s Lecture last week. His choice reminds us why understanding, developing and utilising what we value in (mathematics) education is fundamental to improving teaching and learning. 💪 (Photo credit: […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/05/12/everything-depend-on-our-values
Third Wave Lab Melbourne research seminar
For those of you who are physically in Melbourne, the Third Wave Lab is thrilled to invite you to join us in a research seminar featuring one of our researchers, Dr Emily Sum. Her talk will examine the relevance (or not) of Neo-Confucian values in mathematics education in our society today. You are also welcomed […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/04/13/third-wave-lab-melbourne-research-seminar
Upcoming research seminar in Melbourne (8 May 2025)
Greetings everyone! This is an advance notice for those of you in Melbourne to keep the afternoon of 8 May (Thu) available, if you would like to join us in a research seminar to be presented by Dr Emily Sum who is visiting Melbourne that week. The title will be confirmed in a few weeks, […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/04/05/upcoming-research-seminar-in-melbourne-8-may-2025
Fatma in Melbourne for 2025
Assoc Prof Fatma Nur Aktas (Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Türkiye) is conducting a postdoc research related to Values Alignment in Mathematics Education at Monash University, Australia. She is working with Dr Penelope Kalogeropoulos and Dr James Russo there. She will be in Melbourne till Voc 2025.Folks who are in Melbourne, or who are visiting Melbourne […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/02/19/fatma-in-melbourne-for-2025
Seminar on Mathematical Wellbeing
At the invitation of Utah State University (USA), Dr Julia Hill (Australia) will be presenting a seminar on mathematical wellbeing on 19 Feb at 3.30pm local time, 20 Feb (Thu) at 9.30am Melbourne/Sydney time. All are welcomed – attend face-to-face if you are in Utah, or via ZOOM otherwise (see flyer for the ZOOM QR […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/02/13/seminar-on-mathematical-wellbeing
A review of our latest ‘values book’
This review of our latest ‘values book, edited by Yüksel Dede, Gosia Marschall, and Phil Clarkson, was published in a recent issue of ‘Educational Studies in Mathematics’. We would like to congratulate the three editors for a review which concludes with the sentence: “as claimed in its title, this book focuses on practice and, thus, […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/01/25/a-review-of-our-latest-values-book
A study involving student happiness in maths learning …
… which would be different from Julia Hill’s conception of mathematical wellbeing (MWB) and also different from Juan Zhong’s notion of maths education well-being (MEW). This is a study conducted in Nepal examining how effective pedagogy, internal assessment, student happiness in maths learning relate to students’ sense of empowerment. Joshi, D. R., Belbase, S., Khanal, […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/01/23/a-study-involving-student-happiness-in-maths-learning
Melbourne Symposium 2/2024
For Melbourne-based colleagues, this is a reminder of our second symposium this year, taking place this Thurs 1pm-4pm. The program is accessible here (click on title above to access hyperlink).
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2024/09/24/melbourne-symposium-2-2024
New paper on the MWB of New Zealand students
Congrats on a new paper recently published by Jodie Hunter and Julia Hill! This paper examines the mathematical wellbeing among 12,000+ diverse primary and secondary students in New Zealand. The standout finding? The highest proportion of students across all cultural groups reported peer support and collaboration as crucial to their mathematical wellbeing – mentioning it […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2024/09/24/new-paper-on-the-mwb-of-new-zealand-students
Values presentations at PME Conference this year
Not counting those values presentations based on the EVT, there are 8 values presentations at the PME Conference this year (2 Research Reports, 5 Oral Communications, 1 poster). In addition, Prof JeongSuk Pang’s plenary speech also related the Korean team’s findings in the VAS Study. These 9 pieces of writings can be accessed here.
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2024/07/29/values-presentations-at-pme-conference-this-year

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