This document consists of papers presented at the Second Mathematics Education Conference in May 1982 at Lae, Papua New Guinea. Included are the following titles: (1) The Use of Academic Subjects in a Service Capacity; (2) Some Factors Affecting Mathematics Learning in a National High School; (3) An Extraneous Role for the VTR in Educational Research; (4) A Problem Solving Project - How to Do It; (5) In Algebra We Do Operations on Letters; (6) The Case for Changes in Approaches to Mathematics Curricula: Some Suggestions for Research and Teaching; (7) A Preliminary Study of the Mathematical Generalization Process in Late-Secondary Papua New Guinean Students; (8) The Rotation and Development of Surfaces - A Study of a Piagetian Spatial Task with PNG Secondary School Pupils; (9) Attitudes to Success and Failure in Mathematics; (10) Community School Mathematics: The International Connection; (11) The Use of Algorithms in Year 7; (12) Computer-Assisted Instruction at Unitech; (13) The Development of Time Concepts and the Use of Comparatives among Papua New Guineans; (14) Regional Cooperation: PEACESAT, PRIME and the SPMLC; and (15) Development and Implementation of Math Textbooks in PNG. The document concludes with a program outline of the conference. (MP)