OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Mathematical Thinking and Learning is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A contemporary theory of mathematics education research	18
Examining the effects of an intervention on mathematical modeling in problem solving at upper elementary grades: a cluster randomized trial study	18
The impact of kinesthetic instructional strategies and manipulatives on fourth grader’s self-efficacy and self-confidence toward multiplication	15
Teacher-student interaction supporting students’ creative mathematical reasoning during problem solving using Scratch	14
Mathematical literacy in context Learning and teaching for mathematical literacy: making mathematics useful for everyone , by Hugh Bur	14
Third grade students’ multimodal mathematical reasoning when collaboratively solving combinatorial problems in small groups	10
Inscribing proportional relationships using partitioning, co-occurrence, and same extent	10
Students’ informal statistical inferences through data modeling with a large multivariate dataset	10
Sustaining quantitatively-grounded meanings for definite integrals in high school calculus	10
Learning mathematics as occasioned by disturbanceMathematical encounters & pedagogical detours: stories of disturbance and learning opportunities in teacher education, by B. Koichu and R. Zazkis,	10
Construction of the cardinality principle through counting: critique and conjecture	10
An examination of Japanese curriculum materials through quantitative and covariational reasoning: the treatment of linear functions	9
How numbers influence students when solving linear equations	9
Metacognition in mathematical modeling: the connection between metacognitive individual strategies, metacognitive group strategies and modeling competencies	8
Progressions in young learners’ understandings of parity arguments	8
Exploring geometric reasoning development in early civil engineering education through structured problem-solving	8
Children’s mathematical engagement based on their awareness of coding toy design features	8
Characteristics of mathematics coaches’ suggestions to teachers	7
Differences in grade 7 students’ understanding of the equal sign	7
Randomness and probability: exploring student teachers’ conceptions	7
Elements of instruction that motivate students with learning disabilities to learn fractions	7
Mathematical tools for real-world applications: a gentle introduction for students and practitioners	6
Revealing students’ stories as they construct and use a statistical model in TinkerPlots to conduct a randomization test for comparing two groups	5
Progression in units coordination: initial counterevidence for a transition that transcends mathematical domains	5
A game-based approach to promoting adaptive rational number knowledge	5

Noticing for Equity in Written Work: Exploring One Teacher’s Student Work Analysis Practices	4
Secondary mathematics teachers’ use of students’ incorrect answers in supporting collective argumentation	4
Authenticity of elementary teacher designed and implemented mathematical modeling tasks	4
Modeling the phenomenon versus modeling the data set	4
Sequencing & selecting solutions in a gendered world	3
New ways of interacting with data, context, and chance in statistical modeling processes	3
Embodied learning at a distance: from sensory-motor experience to constructing and understanding a sine graph	3
Exploring variability during data preparation: a way to connect data, chance, and context when working with complex public datasets	3
Examining how middle grade mathematics students seize learning opportunities through conflict in small groups	3
On students’ covariational reasoning in Bayesian situations: do calculation strategies and visualizations play a role?	3
The complexity of supporting reasoning in a mathematics classroom of shared authority	2
Editorial	2
Informal statistical models and modeling	2
Exploring the linguistic factors influencing concept identification	2
Design principles for simulation-based learning of hypothesis testing in secondary school	2
Care in mathematics education: alternative educational spaces and practices Care in mathematics education: alternative educational spaces and practices , by Anne Watson,	2
Rethinking Learning Trajectories in Light of Student Linguistic Diversity	2
Elementary students’ fraction reasoning: a measurement approach to fractions in a dynamic environment	2
Do quality criteria of instructional explanatory videos in algebra influence student choice? A feasibility study using conjoint analysis to assess implicit reasoning in educational contexts	2
Between expert and student perspectives: on the intersection of affect and heuristic-didactic discourse in the undergraduate classroom	1
Introducing teachers who use GUI-driven tools for the randomization test to code-driven tools	1
Editorial	1
Modern mathematics: an international movement?	1
Mathematical thinking about systems – students modeling a biometrics identity verification system	1
Critical mathematics education	1
“Tia was the right one:” mathematical authority and trust among first graders	1
Counting the stars: advancing mathematical activity in a scripting journey	1
Developing ‘deep mathematical thinking’ in geometry with 3- and 4-year-olds: a collaborative study between early years teachers and university-based mathematicians	1