Research in Mathematics Education is the official journal of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics. As of this year, the journal is included in the Routledge system, and it is quite easy to track the latest news from the journal. It has now published the first issue of 2008, which includes several interesting papers. Here is a list of the research papers in issue 1, 2008:

• “I would rather die”: reasons given by 16-year-olds for not continuing their study of mathematics by M. Brown, P. Brown and T. Bibby
• The capacity of two Australian eighth-grade textbooks for promoting proportional reasoning by S. Dole and M. Shield
• “If you can count to ten you can count to infinity really”: fostering conceptual mathematical thinking in the first year of primary school by P. Iannone and A.D. Cockburn
• Student perspectives on the relationship between a curve and its tangent in the transition from Euclidean Geometry to Analysis by I. Biza, C. Christou and T. Zachariades
• The role of affect in learning Real Analysis: a case study by K. Weber