Rate My Professor Jill Cheeseman

Jill Cheeseman serves as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Curriculum Teaching and Inclusive Education within the Faculty of Education at Monash University, where she is a lecturer in mathematics education. Prior to her academic career, she accumulated extensive professional experience as a primary school teacher and as a teacher-educator in diverse settings across Australia and overseas. She completed her PhD at Monash University in 2010, with her thesis entitled "Challenging children to think: An investigation of the behaviours of highly effective teachers that stimulate children to examine their mathematical understandings."

Cheeseman's research specializations encompass how children learn mathematics, strategies employed by teachers to challenge children's mathematical thinking, creating challenging learning environments for young children, measurement curriculum initiatives, girls and mathematics, and teacher leaders of mathematics. She has authored or co-authored 68 research outputs, including journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters. Key publications include "Supporting teachers in structuring mathematics lessons involving challenging tasks" (2015, Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education), "The mathematical knowledge and understanding young children bring to school" (2006, Mathematics Education Research Journal), and "Early Numeracy Research Project Final Report" (2002, Department of Education, Employment and Training). Recent works feature "Meeting multiplicative thinking through thought-provoking tasks" (2023, Mathematics Education Research Journal), "Launching mathematics lessons: what works?" (2023, Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom), "Partitive division: the numbers matter to young children" (2025, Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia), and "The practices of middle leaders of mathematics: alignment of their goals and activities" (2023, School Leadership & Management). In 2011, she was part of the team awarded the MERGA Research Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to mathematics education research.