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We would like to keep the discussion of these issues going and welcome your comments and contributions. The BERA 2007 conference provided an opportunity to work on the ideas more - we held a double symposium in which we focussed on how we could use our three theoretical lenses to analyse a range of data. Yvette, Laura and Heather presented analyses of data provided by Jim Ridgway, our discussant, and papers by Margaret and Melissa applied the ideas to post-16 choices and teacher development. The discussion was lively - our presentations can be downloaded below:

Download Jim Ridgway's Presentation - 'Making Mathematics Choices for the 6th Form'.

Download Jim Ridgway's Presentation - 'Themes'.

Download Heather Mendick's Presentation - 'Clever girl! A psychosocial reading of gender and relationships with mathematics'.

Download Laura Black's Presentation - 'Students’ positionings with respect to cultural models of mathematics: a socio-cultural analysis'.

Download Yvette Solomon Presentation - 'Place Values'

Download Margaret Brown's Paper - '"I would rather die": attitudes of 16-year-olds towards their future participation in mathematics'.

Download Melissa Rodd's Paper - 'Developing maths-identities of overseas trained teachers from developing countries: two voices'.

Download Yvette Solomon Paper - 'Place Values:: Theorising self-positioning in the intergace between classroom communities of practice and discourses of gender and ability in matematics'