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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Mathematical literacy in context Learning and teaching for mathematical literacy: making mathematics useful for everyone , by Hugh Bur	22
A game-based approach to promoting adaptive rational number knowledge	21
Modeling the phenomenon versus modeling the data set	17
Mathematical thinking about systems – students modeling a biometrics identity verification system	16
Sequencing & selecting solutions in a gendered world	16
Counting the stars: advancing mathematical activity in a scripting journey	15
Transforming learning opportunities in linguistically diverse secondary classrooms through promoting discussions: results of an intervention	14
Spatial training using game play in preschoolers improves computational skills	13
Developing initial notions of variability when learning about box plots	12
The role of patterning skills in early mathematical development: an analysis of all dimensions of visual perception	11
Understanding the nature of arithmetical concepts–important content for the education of primary mathematics teachers	10
Undergraduate students’ interpretations of expressions from calculus statements within the graphical register	10
Modeling from a cognitive perspective: theoretical considerations and empirical contributions	9
Preschool children’s repeating patterning skills: evidence of their capability from a large scale, naturalistic, Australia wide study	9
Professional noticing coherence: exploring relationships between component processes	9
Inscribing proportional relationships using partitioning, co-occurrence, and same extent	9
On students’ covariational reasoning in Bayesian situations: do calculation strategies and visualizations play a role?	7
A digital-embodied design for functional thinking in the classroom	7
Progressions in young learners’ understandings of parity arguments	6
Mathematical tools for real-world applications: a gentle introduction for students and practitioners	6
Randomness and probability: exploring student teachers’ conceptions	5
Care in mathematics education: alternative educational spaces and practices Care in mathematics education: alternative educational spaces and practices , by Anne Watson,	5
Metacognition in mathematical modeling: the connection between metacognitive individual strategies, metacognitive group strategies and modeling competencies	5
Backward transfer, the relationship between new learning and prior ways of reasoning, and action versus process views of linear functions	4
Does the Use of Concept Maps Affect the Defining and the Understanding of Inclusion Relationships?	4

Between expert and student perspectives: on the intersection of affect and heuristic-didactic discourse in the undergraduate classroom	4
Design principles for simulation-based learning of hypothesis testing in secondary school	4
The role of contextual knowledge in noticing students’ strategies in-the-moment	3
Kindergarten students’ mathematics knowledge at work: the mathematics for programming robot toys	3
Views on concept in mathematics education	3
Learning through explaining and engaging with others’ mathematical ideas	3
Structure recognition and generalization by second-graders in direct and inverse forms of a linear function	3
Building mathematical micro-identities through supporting productive struggle	3
Supporting students’ participation in collective argumentation: Use of displays in a secondary mathematics classroom	3
How numbers influence students when solving linear equations	2
Examining how middle grade mathematics students seize learning opportunities through conflict in small groups	2
A century of ICMI—A century of mathematics education	2
Progression in units coordination: initial counterevidence for a transition that transcends mathematical domains	2
Developing ‘deep mathematical thinking’ in geometry with 3- and 4-year-olds: a collaborative study between early years teachers and university-based mathematicians	2
Exploring geometric reasoning development in early civil engineering education through structured problem-solving	2
The complexity of supporting reasoning in a mathematics classroom of shared authority	2
Can we TRU-ly infrastructure instructional change? Book review of mathematics teaching on target and helping students become powerful mathematical thinker	2
Identifying the types of collective engagement structures that manifest in middle-grade mathematics classrooms	1
Can students with different language backgrounds profit equally from a language-responsive instructional approach for percentages? Differential effectiveness in a field trial	1
Examining the effects of an intervention on mathematical modeling in problem solving at upper elementary grades: a cluster randomized trial study	1
Elementary students’ fraction reasoning: a measurement approach to fractions in a dynamic environment	1
Critical mathematics education	1
Young children’s drawings of measurement and partitive division word problems	1
Sustaining quantitatively-grounded meanings for definite integrals in high school calculus	1
Exploring the linguistic factors influencing concept identification	1
Models and Modelling: The Fine Balance between Mathematics, Practice, and Research	1
Teachers’ knowledge of different forms of complex numbers through quantitative reasoning	1
An examination of Japanese curriculum materials through quantitative and covariational reasoning: the treatment of linear functions	1