James Russo is a researcher and pre-service teacher educator based out of Monash University, Victoria. His research interests include: 

·         teacher and student emotional responses in the primary mathematics classroom; 

·         the role of challenging tasks, games, and children’s literature as pedagogical approaches to support positive student learning experiences in primary mathematics;

·         better understanding the relationship between classroom practice and academic research 

·         the learning and teaching of mental computation and estimation;

James writes regularly for a range of teacher practitioner journals and continues to spend some of his week team-teaching in a primary classroom. He uses this as a space to develop and test teaching ideas, and to stimulate thinking about his research. James is currently working on an Australian Research Council project looking at developing sequences of learning experiences built around challenging tasks.