Grace Jefferson
- grace.jefferson@jcu.edu.au
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8386-6982- Lecturer, Mathematic Education
- Education
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Publications
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Biography
Grace brings over a decade of experience in secondary and tertiary education, specialising in mathematics education, ITE, curriculum management, assessment, and learning design. Her foundation in applied mathematics drives her passion for cultivating mathematical engagement and confidence in the classroom and beyond. Grace’s research explores emergent technologies in education and seeks to address the challenges of improving mathematics education uptake, with a particular focus on dismantling barriers related to gender and otherness.
Research
Research Interests
Mathematics Education
Education
Mathematics and Gender
Mathematics, Numeracy and Engagement
Teaching
Taught Modules
[ED1491] Foundations of Mathematics and Numeracy in EducationCoordinator, Lecturer
2022
2024
[ED5958] Literacy and Numeracy for Secondary TeachersCoordinator, Lecturer
2022
[ED2493] Junior Curriculum 2Coordinator, Lecturer
2023
[ED1491] Foundations of Mathematics and Numeracy in EducationCoordinator, Lecturer
2023
[ED2492] Junior Curriculum 1Lecturer, Coordinator
2023
[ED2493] Junior Curriculum 2Coordinator, Lecturer
2022
[ED2492] Junior Curriculum 1Coordinator, Lecturer
2022
[ED5911] Education for SustainabilityCoordinator
2025
2025
[ED3098] Specialist Primary Mathematics CurriculumCoordinator, Lecturer
2022
[ED3098] Specialist Primary Mathematics CurriculumCoordinator, Lecturer
2024
[ED2493] Junior Secondary Curriculum 2Lecturer, Coordinator
2025
2024
[ED3098] Specialist Primary Mathematics CurriculumCoordinator, Lecturer
2023
2024
2025
[ED2492] Junior Secondary Curriculum 1Coordinator, Lecturer
2025
[ED5958] Literacy and Numeracy for Secondary TeachersCoordinator, Lecturer
2023
2025
2025
2025
[ED4623] Teachers as Ethical and Collaborative Change AgentsCoordinator, Lecturer
2022
Output
Jefferson, Grace; Henry, Rosita; Heyeres, Marion; Morgan, Rhian; Tomas Engel, Louisa; Tsey, Komla; Zuchowski, Ines (2024) 'Impact through research in education and studies in human society: a review of Australian Research Council 'high-for-impact' case studies'. PLoS ONE, 19 (5). [DOI]
Zuchowski, Ines; Cleak, Helen; Jefferson, Grace (2023) 'The importance of connection: A quantitative study of students’ learning in placements completed remotely from an organisation'. British Journal of Social Work, 53 (4):2370-2391. [DOI]
Jefferson, G.E.; Carminati, J. (2014) 'Associate symmetries: A novel procedure for finding contact symmetries'. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 19 (3):431-441. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Jefferson, G.F.; Carminati, J. (2014) 'FracSym: Automated symbolic computation of Lie symmetries of fractional differential equations'. Computer Physics Communications, 185 (1):430-441. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Ibragimov, Ranis; Jefferson, Grace; Carminati, John (2013) 'Explicit invariant solutions associated with nonlinear atmospheric flows in a thin rotating spherical shell with and without west-to-east jets perturbations'. Analysis and Mathematical Physics, 3 (4):375-391. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Jefferson, G. F. (2013) 'On the second-order approximate symmetry classification and optimal systems of subalgebras for a forced Korteweg-de Vries equation'. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 18 (9):2340-2358. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Ibragimov, Ranis; Jefferson, Grace; Carminati, John (2013) 'Invariant and approximately invariant solutions of non-linear internal gravity waves forming a column of stratified fluid affected by the Earth's rotation'. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 51 :28-44. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Jefferson, G.F.; Carminati, J. (2013) 'ASP: Automated symbolic computation of approximate symmetries of differential equations'. Computer Physics Communications, 184 (3):1045-1063. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Vu, K.T.; Jefferson, G.F.; Carminati, J. (2012) 'Finding higher symmetries of differential equations using the MAPLE package DESOLVII'. Computer Physics Communications, 183 (4):1044-1054. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU