OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of ZDM-Mathematics Education is 7. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Mechanisms and evidence of prospective teachers’ learning through enquiry-oriented practices: the case of a lesson study intervention	94
Mathematical creativity in modelling: further development of the construct, its measurement, and its empirical implementation	75
Neural connectivity in developmental dyscalculia: a resting-state fMRI study using ROI-based and connectome-based approaches	66
Problem solving in mathematics education: tracing its foundations and current research-practice trends	62
Video tools to support multimodal teacher noticing	58
Correction: Mathematics education research on language and on communication including some distinctions: where are we now?	48
Adolescents’ motivational beliefs and achievement in mathematics: the role of perceived teacher instrumental and emotional support	47
Confronted with mathematics: the impact of pre-service elementary school teachers’ self-concept on emotional and physiological responses to mathematics exposure	47
Dialogues Between Theoretical Approaches in Mathematics Education Research: A Systematic Review	46
Encouraging research on recursive thinking through the lens of a model of the spread of contagious diseases	38
The role of teacher professional networks in Egypt’s mathematics education reform	37
Teaching tactics supporting beginner modelling in upper secondary	37
First encounter with constructing graphs in the functional thinking approach to school algebra in 3rd and 4th grades	36
From the historical text to the classroom session: analysing the work of teachers-as-designers	34
Different lenses on distributions and the integration of context knowledge in data-ing processes of primary school students	32
Different cognitive mechanisms for process-open and process-constrained problem solving	32
Structured mathematical modelling in an authentic scientific-engineering context	31
International comparative studies in mathematics education: a scoping review of the literature from 2014 to 2023	29
History of mathematics in the context of mathematics teachers’ education: a dialogical/ethical perspective	29
Comparison of secondary mathematics textbooks on the topic of equations in Australia, China, Singapore, England, and the United States	28
Public engagement of underserved students with open civic data	27
Common spaces matter: curricular experiences through mathematics with young prisoners and prospective teachers	27
Systematic review of learning trajectories in early mathematics	24
Mathematics teachers’ noticing of argumentation within small groups	24
Ways researchers can use teacher noticing to inform the conceptualization of a complex teaching practice	23

Encountering ideas about teaching and learning mathematics in undergraduate mathematics courses	23
Motivation counts! The unique contribution of motivation for mathematics to the development of arithmetic fluency in primary school	23
Sourcing mathematical meaning as a dialogic process: meaning-focused and language-focused repairs	22
Strengthening mathematical orientation: how university mathematics courses can gain relevance for pre-service teachers	22
Inclusive citizenship through mathematics education: a conceptual investigation	20
Acting on totalities of infinite processes: constructing facets of an object conception	19
Prospective Secondary Teachers’ Emergent Knowledge and Beliefs: Inquiry-Oriented Differential Equations Contributing to Teacher Preparation	19
Technology maker practices in mathematics learning in STEM contexts: a case in Brazil and two cases in Canada	19
Connecting mathematics to STEM education: interdisciplinary teaching and learning facilitation	19
Roles of technologies for future teaching in a pandemic: activity, agency, and humans-with-media	17
The MTSK model as a tool for designing tasks for teacher education	17
Studying while anxious: mathematics anxiety and the avoidance of solving practice problems during exam preparation in college calculus	17
Investigating a teacher-perspective on pedagogical mathematical practices: possibilities for using mathematical practice to develop pedagogy in mathematical coursework	17
Primary students’ learning about citizenship through data science	17
Emotions in mathematics learning: a systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Formative Assessment in Mathematics Education: A Systematic Review	16
Comprehension of argumentation in mathematical text: what is the role of interest?	16
Edmond Halley and Apollonius: second-order historical knowledge in mathematics education	15
Experts’ intuitive mathematical discourses about integration in complex analysis	15
The role of textbooks in the implementation of curriculum development: a comparative study through the lens of Chinese and Indonesian teachers’ views	15
Acknowledgements to reviewers 2022	15
Using academic mathematical knowledge when working on interface tasks–analyses of pre-service teachers’ arguments about rotationally symmetric figures	15
Traits of generalization of problem solution methods exhibited by potential mathematically gifted students when solving problems in a selection process	14
Fifth graders’ learning to solve equations: the impact of early arithmetic strategies	14
A review of lesson study in mathematics education from 2015 to 2022: implementation and impact	13
Systematic Review of Research on Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Mathematics: Insights from a Topic-Specific Approach	13
Generalisation in students with autism spectrum disorder: an exploratory study of strategies	13
Seeds of algebraic thinking: a Knowledge in Pieces perspective on the development of algebraic thinking	13
Three embodied voices speaking on/to research on language, mathematics, and the learner	13
Young students’ engagement with data to create decision trees	13
Whole number interference in rational number processing: neuroimaging evidence from decimal comparison	13
Incouple numbers and dedómetros: listening for meaning in bilingual children’s mathematical lexical inventions	13
Keeping pace with innovations in data visualizations: A commentary for mathematics education in times of crisis	12
On understanding mathematical problem-posing processes	12
Primary source projects as textbook replacements: a commognitive analysis	12
The quality of digital curriculum resources for mathematics in German educational policy	12
Relevant mathematical modelling efforts for understanding COVID-19 dynamics: an educational challenge	12
Emotions and motivation in mathematics education: Where we are today and where we need to go	12
Exploring students’ constructions of data-based decision trees after an introductory teaching unit on machine learning	11
Exploring students’ mathematical discussions in a multi-level hybrid learning environment	11
Epistemic emotions and pre-service mathematics teachers’ knowledge for teaching	11
Preparing prospective secondary teachers to teach mathematical reasoning and proof: the case of the role of examples in proving	11
Parental involvement, achievement and motivation: a longitudinal exploration of the interplay between parents’ practices and students’ mathematics achievement and motivation	11
Expert-novice differences in mathematics teachers’ noticing: a mobile eye-tracking case study	11
Spatial modelling in second grade: creating crab colonies	11
Spatial-temporal-enactive structuring in combinatorial enumeration	11
Problem posing or mathematical modeling? The process of expert instructional design	10
Teacher education for mathematical modelling: exploring the experiences of secondary school teachers in two courses	10
Conceptualizing teachers’ interactions with resources in crossing languages and cultures	10
Examining the role of drawing construction and use in mathematical modelling – an eye-tracking study	10

Adolescents of color have greater mathematics values than White adolescents across gender: Replication evidence across high school and datasets in the U.S.	10
What is mathematics teaching talk for? A response based on three sites of practice in mathematics education	10
Pre-service mathematics teachers’ experiences and insights into the benefits and challenges of using explanatory videos in flipped modelling education	10
Metacognitive activities in high school students’ mathematical modelling: findings from an epistemic network analysis	10
The Learner’s Perspective Study Methodology: a legacy for future researchers	10
Openness in mathematical modelling: do experiences of competence and autonomy mediate the effects of an intervention on modelling problems on task values and cost?	9
Interlinking teachers’ beliefs and motivational practices: a cross-country examination of the relationship with students’ motivation in mathematics	9
Acknowledgements to reviewers 2025	9
The role of M (mathematical worlds) in HPM (history and pedagogy of Mathematics) and in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics)	9
Correction to: Implementing profession orientation as a design principle for overcoming Klein’s second discontinuity – preservice teacher’s perspectives on interface activities in the context of a geo	9
Connecting social support to motivational beliefs in mathematics: domain- and homework-specific expectancy-value profiles	9
Moving beyond reflection and toward disruption in the post-field context of mathematics teacher education	9
Curriculum and mathematical coherence: exploring the tensions in teaching and learning number	9
The relationships of preservice teachers’ dispositions and noticing of technology-integrated mathematics teaching activities	9
Factors influencing Japanese pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy in teaching mathematical modelling	9
Algebraic reasoning in years 5 and 6: classifying its emergence and progression using reverse fraction tasks	9
Implementing profession orientation as a design principle for overcoming Klein’s second discontinuity – preservice teacher’s perspectives on interface activities in the context of a geometry course	9
Trends in mathematics education and insights from a meta-review and bibliometric analysis of review studies	8
Conceptualizing functional relationships in an augmented reality environment: connecting real and virtual worlds	8
Designing an instrument to measure the development of techno-mathematical literacies in an innovative mathematics course for future engineers in STEM education	8
Complexity of geometrical problems as a function of field-(in)dependency and (a)symmetry of geometry diagrams: an ERP study	8
The impact of COVID-19 on the format and nature of academic conferences in mathematics education	8
Identifying and describing generic, specific, and catalytic enablers of mathematical modelling	8
The collective use of the discipline of noticing to inform pedagogic actions	8
Recent developments in using digital technology in mathematics education	8
Effects of observation mode on ratings of teaching quality in secondary mathematics classrooms	8
Citizens’ data-ing with contemporary data in their daily life	8
Futures for Post-Pandemic Mathematics Teacher Education: responsiveness and responsibility in the Face of a Crisis	8
Examining the key factors affecting teachers’ translation of a theoretical framework from English into a native language: the Turkish case	8
Assessment in mathematics: a study on teachers’ practices in times of pandemic	7
Publisher Correction: Professionalisation for inclusive mathematics–teacher education programs and changes in pre-service teachers’ beliefs and self-efficacy	7
Teachers: what authority do they possess in the development of the curriculum	7
What Have We Learned About Modelling and Assessing Mathematics Teachers’ Competence?–Insights from a Literature Review	7
Correction to: Generic dimensions of teaching quality: the german framework of three Basic Dimensions	7
Educational choices and mathematical motivation: tracing upper secondary students’ reconstructed trajectories through a narrative and situative lens	7
Multilingual Mathematics Education: an analysis of a Mexican research-based Master’s degree course developed in the Questioning the World Paradigm	7
Probabilistic literacy and reasoning of prospective secondary school teachers when interpreting media news	7
Problem posing and motivation: the effects of posing and solving one’s own modelling problems on autonomy, competence, relatedness, and self-efficacy	7
On the relationship between school mathematics and university mathematics: a comparison of three approaches	7
ZIZO: a history-based approach to mathematics teacher education	7
First-year university students' self-regulated learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative longitudinal study	7
Obstacles to in-service Chinese high school mathematics teachers’ implementation of mathematical modelling in classrooms: an empirical investigation of teachers’ perspectives	7
Correction: Common spaces matter: curricular experiences through mathematics with young prisoners and prospective teachers	7
Fostering expansive noticing practices through video-based professional development in college mathematics	7
High-quality use of representations in the mathematics classroom – a matter of the cultural perspective?	7