OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Mathematical Thinking and Learning is 4. 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
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

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