Educational Studies in Mathematics

Papers
(The median citation count of Educational Studies in Mathematics 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The sensory politics of mathematics: aestheticizing multiplication41
Deciphering the cognitive and non-cognitive competencies of Chinese students’ mathematics through a critical lens of PISA37
Promoting caregiver engagement processes through the codesign of translanguaging mathematics activities27
Book review: mapping mathematics education research in Asia: insights across diverse countries. Bill Atweh, Lianghuo Fan, Catherine P.Vistro-Yu (Eds.) (2023) Asian research in mathematics education: m23
Between global forces and local values: a Bakhtinian perspective on Mexican mathematics education research22
Beyond mere persistence: a conceptual framework for bridging perseverance and mathematical sensemaking in teaching and teacher learning22
What mathematicians learn from attending other mathematicians’ lectures21
Social (justice) mathematics: racializing effects of ordering pedagogies and their inherited regimes of truth21
Conceptions of span in linear algebra through analysis of student exam responses21
Unpacking discourses about the transition from school to university mathematics: an intensive reading20
Analyzing preservice mathematics teachers’ professional vision using epistemic network analysis18
A systematic review of mathematics interventions for preschoolers18
Failure to teach/learn mathematics: a complexity-discursive perspective17
Book Review: Meeting the challenge of mathematical challenge in mathematics education. Roza Leikin (Ed.) (2023) Mathematical Challenges for All17
It is probably a pattern: does spontaneous focusing on regularities in preschool predict reasoning about randomness four years later?16
Narrative characteristics of captivating secondary mathematics lessons16
Emergent storylines that influence positions and mathematical status in collaborative small-group proof activity15
Conceptual and procedural teaching: does one teaching approach moderate the relationship between the other teaching approach and algebra achievement?15
Empirical findings on the teaching and learning of quadratic equations: a systematic review14
There is more to algebra than meets the eye: the case of blindness14
Teaching practices that support revising definition drafts to adhere to mathematical norms14
Teaching them properly: transforming professional identities in Pitjantjatjara mathematics education14
Book Review: Supporting mathematics educators through and towards online learning. Karen Hollebrands, Robin Anderson, and Kevin Oliver (Eds). (2021) Online learning in mathematics education13
Teacherly response-ability: ethical relationality as protest against mathematical violence13
Strongly didactic contracts and mathematical work13
Enhancing student’s understanding of unit conversion by expli­cating underlying structures: design research on schematization in middle schools13
Unpacking the effect of classroom social environment on self-regulated learning in mathematical education: the mediation of self-efficacy13
Heuristics and semantic spaces for the analysis of students’ work in mathematical problem solving13
How narratives about the secondary-tertiary transition shape undergraduate tutors’ sense-making of their teaching13
Book Review: Mun Yee Lai and Rongjin Huang (Eds.) (2025) Culture matters to mathematics teaching and learning: research studies in honor of Professor Frederick K. S. Leung12
Patterning strategies in grade 1 students with low and high number sense proficiency12
The trends of using the Knowledge Quartet Framework in mathematics education research since 2005: systematic literature review12
Conceptions of span in linear algebra: from textbook examples to student responses12
Inferences, mastery, and objectivity: examining student understanding of mathematical concepts with inferentialism12
Representations and generalization in early algebra: a comparative study of autistic students and their non-autistic peers12
Instructional quality of two beginning mathematics teachers for three years: what professional competency makes a difference?11
Book Review: International and diverse. Failed but seminal. Dirk de Bock (Ed.). (2023) Modern Mathematics. An International Movement?11
Interrogating the equity promise for Black immigrant students in reformed mathematics classrooms10
The role of everyday mathematics in parent and caregiver experiences of alienation from school mathematics10
The integration of undergraduate students’ informal and formal inferential reasoning10
Open modelling problems: cognitive barriers and instructional prompts10
Students’ understanding and development of the definition of circle in Taxicab and Euclidean geometries: an APOS perspective with schema interaction10
Mathematical structures of simple and compound interest: An analysis of secondary teachers’ relational thinking10
Student noticing of collaborative practices: exploring how college students notice during small group interactions in math9
Book Review: One hundred years of mathematics education seen through the lens of ICMI. Fulvia Furinghetti & Livia Giacardi (Eds.) (2022). The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, 9
Learning to speak mathematically at the Japanese supplementary school in Sweden: critical cases of praxeological anomaly9
Teaching Thales’s theorem: relations between suitable mathematical working spaces and specialised knowledge9
Becoming exceptional: the role of capital in the development and mediation of mathematics identity and degree trajectories9
Who benefits most from language-responsive learning materials in mathematics? Investigating differential effects in heterogeneous classrooms9
“What makes it eigen-esque-ish?”: A form-function analysis of the development of eigentheory concepts in a quantum mechanics course9
The role of an online learning environment in teacher care for secondary mathematics students9
Investigating the complexity of pattern recognition in primary students9
Book Review: Historical influences, present problems, and futuristic solutions in African countries. Brantina Chirinda, Kakoma Luneta, and Alphonse Uworabayeho (Eds.). (2022). Mathematics education in9
Exploring the opportunities for reasoning and proving in mathematical tasks designed by secondary prospective teachers9
Young children’s notations for representing ordinal position and quantity: a longitudinal study of cross-task and within-task qualitative variations8
Eye movements in conceptual and non-conceptual thinking8
Correction to: Construction of subitized units is related to the construction of arithmetic units8
Developing a diagnostic framework for primary and secondary students’ reasoning difficulties during mathematical problem solving8
Using the onto-semiotic approach to analyze novice algebra learners’ meaning-making processes with different representations8
Shifts in student attention on algorithmic and creative practice tasks8
Meaning(s) of a student perspective in mathematics education research8
Lessons in paradise: envisioning a Black liberatory mathematics education8
Book Review: Yiming Cao (ed.) (2024). Students’ collaborative problem solving in mathematics classrooms: an empirical study7
Investigating a learning progression of functional thinking for elementary students7
Unfolding algebraic thinking from a cognitive perspective7
Diverse perspectives and experiences of university mathematics teachers on improving the secondary-tertiary transition7
Book review: The varied role and endemic place of mathematics in mathematics education research. Xiaoheng Kitty Yan, Ami Mamolo, and Igor’ Kontorovich (Eds.) (2025) Where is the mathematics in your ma7
Race, racism, and racialization in mathematics education: global perspectives7
Seeing number relations when solving a three-digit subtraction task7
Looking back and forward: ESM, a growing journal7
Does problem connection to reality shape interest, performance and their interplay? A comparative analysis involving students with high and average mathematical potential7
A bridging study analyzing mathematical model construction through a quantities-oriented lens7
Aligning school mathematics with a manufactured crisis: re-rendering neoliberal and neoconservative discourses as commonsensical in a rural place7
Re-interpreting children’s initiatives in mathematical inquiry processes as distributed agency over human and non-human agents6
Book Review: Planetary ethics and the trouble of citizenship in mathematics education. Anna Chronaki & Ayşe Yolcu (Eds.) (2025). Troubling notions of global citizenship and diversity in mathematic6
Slow emergencies of racism in mathematics education6
From pre-ritual to exploration: young learner’s gestural routine development in manipulative-based number discourse6
Correction to: Interactional practices of inviting minoritized students to whole‑class mathematics discussions6
Students’ geometric understanding of partial derivatives and the locally linear approach6
Transitioning to proof via writing scripts on the rules of a new discourse6
Mathematical modelling as a vehicle for eliciting algorithmic thinking6
A framework for reasoning in school mathematics: analyzing the development of mathematical claims6
Competencies and fighting syllabusism6
“I’ll just try to mimic that”: an exploration of students’ analogical structure creation in abstract algebra6
Teachers’ use of rational questioning strategies to promote student participation in collective argumentation6
Clustering eye-movement data uncovers students’ strategies for coordinating equations and diagrams of vector fields6
Toward a didactical phenomenology for the completeness axiom6
Discussing mathematical events to foster teachers’ noticing of geometric definitions6
Shifts in meta-level learning agreement during mathematics peer learning: integrating positioning theory and commognitive framework6
Pre-service teachers’ flexibility and performance in solving Fermi problems6
The construction of mathematical reasoning as a pedagogical object6
A long-term shift to include students’ first language in the mathematics teaching practice: socialization events and learning opportunities5
Book Review: Collaboration against postcolonialism. Patricia Paraide, Kay Owens, Charly Muke, Philip Clarkson, & Christopher Owens (2022) Mathematics education in a neocolonial country: The case o5
Using positioning theory to think about mathematics classroom talk5
Is it all about the setting? — A comparison of mathematical modelling with real objects and their representation5
Spontaneous focusing on numerical order and numerical skills of 3- to 4-year-old children5
Decision making in managing semiotic conflicts in curriculum materials: a training program with prospective teachers in Costa Rica5
Book Review: Bridging design and teacher capacity. Janine T. Remillard, Ok-Kyeong Kim (Eds.). (2020). Elementary mathematics curriculum materials: designs for student learning and teacher enactment 5
Experienced teachers’ beliefs about the conception of student creativity in primary mathematics5
“This cannot be”—refutation feedback and its potential affordances for proof comprehension5
Effect of algebraic language and problem text wording on problem model accuracy when solving age word problems5
Book Review: Breaking images: iconoclastic analyses of mathematics and its education, Brian Greer, David Kollosche, and Ole Skovsmose (Eds.) (2024)5
Playful learning opportunities: US children’s mathematics and literacy home learning environments5
Inquiry-based learning in Grade 9 mathematics: assessing outcomes across Gagné’s taxonomy5
Book review: A life in critical mathematics education. Ole Skovsmose (2023) Critical Mathematics Education. Springer5
Introduction to eye tracking in mathematics education: interpretation, potential, and challenges5
Editorial: paper collections, research retrieval, serendipity4
Editorial4
Understanding the cognitive processes of mathematical problem posing: evidence from eye movements4
Children’s subtraction by addition strategy use and their subtraction-related conceptual knowledge4
Students’ voices of inclusion in mathematics education4
The Framework for Posing Elementary Mathematics Problems (F-PosE): Supporting Teachers to Evaluate and Select Problems for Use in Elementary Mathematics4
“Where does the square go?”: reinterpreting shapes when solving a tangram puzzle4
When teachers construct tests for assessing students’ competencies: a taxonomy4
A revisitation of Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract4
The role of examples in proving and disproving: extending an existing framework4
Mathematics learning and teacher–parent partnerships in the post-COVID-19 context4
Towards an advanced mathematical language task for the early primary school years: preliminary results on reliability and validity4
Developing the concept of task substitution and transformation by defining own equivalences4
Supporting cardinality principle development: the contribution of instruction type and its interplay with child characteristics4
Mathematics teachers’ ethical decision-making approaches in instructional practices4
Improvements in learning addition and subtraction when using a structural approach in first grade4
Mathematical Working Spaces in the mathematical modeling cycle: the case of preservice elementary mathematics teachers4
The emergence of sign–tool hybridity in situated geometry practice: a networking perspective3
Book Review: M. A. (Ken) Clements, Berinderjeet Kaur, Thomas Lowrie, Vilma Mesa, and Johan Prytz (Eds.) (2024) Fourth international handbook of mathematics education3
Mathematical induction in education research: a systematic review3
Socio-ecological gestures of mathematics education3
Generalizing actions with the subtraction-compensation property: primary students’ algebraic thinking with tasks involving vertical towers of blocks3
Secondary mathematics teachers’ descriptions of student engagement3
The relation between attitudes towards mathematics and dropout from university mathematics—the mediating role of satisfaction and achievement3
How much C is in TPACK? A systematic review on the assessment of TPACK in mathematics3
Evolution of teachers’ professional learning when using a technological resource: a case study of a Tunisian primary school teacher3
Shedding light on preservice and inservice school teachers’ beliefs and attitudes regarding mathematics3
Pre-service teacher planning for differentiation of instruction in mathematics classrooms3
Correction to: Secondary school students’ strategies when interpreting histograms and case‑value plots: an eye‑tracking study3
The omnipresence of the Letter-as-Object misconception: a multilevel Latent Transition Analysis on understanding variables3
Book Review: The new mathematics education of new Europe. Alexander Karp (Ed.) (2020) Eastern European mathematics education in the decades of change3
School mathematics as context: examining discourses about the subject in district policymaking3
The transition from school to university mathematics in different contexts: affective and sociocultural issues in students’ crisis3
Cultivating mindfulness through conditional tasks in mathematics classrooms3
Supporting English non-dominant language authors’ efforts to publish: perspectives from the editors-in-chief of highly recognised journals in Mathematics Education3
Does problem posing affect self-efficacy, task value, and performance in mathematical modelling?2
Exploring the use of a colouring task to elicit young students’ mathematical reasoning2
Growth of teacher professional competence through professional development programs: a study of mathematics teachers in Chile2
Alan J. Bishop 1937–20232
Collaboration between Mathematicians and Mathematics Educators: dialogical inquiry as a methodological tool in Mathematics Education research2
The secret life of mathematical concepts2
Exploring how students with learning disorders engage with open arithmetic tasks using a mathematical creativity lens2
Reclaiming mathematical knowledge and practices in Indigenous collectives2
Development of high school students’ conceptions of sampling distribution in the context of learning significance tests with technology2
Demonstrating mathematics learning as the emergence of eye–hand dynamic equilibrium2
Using theoretical and empirical background information to affect noticing of geometrical thinking2
A framework of mathematical thinking experience: Core components, hierarchical levels, and group differences in mathematical creativity2
A tale of two students: unpacking undergraduate mathematics students’ mathematical identities using the Listening Guide2
Collective problem-solving in Japanese primary mathematics lessons2
Explorative mathematical argumentation: a theoretical framework for identifying and analysing argumentation processes in early mathematics learning2
Book Review: Empowering primary mathematics educators: strategies for addressing anxiety in the classroom; Karen Wicks (2021) Tackling anxiety in primary mathematics teachers2
When algebra is not enough: a dialogue on the composition of even and odd functions2
Early education professionals’ situational observing and perceiving of adult-child interactions in explorative mathematical argumentation2
The field of mathematics education research and its boundaries2
Concept maps as assessment for learning in university mathematics2
Levels of articulation in prospective mathematics teacher noticing2
Racialization through coloniality in mathematics curricula: problematizing the Cambridge Assessment International Examination in Sub-Saharan Africa2
Students’ local vs. global views of data distributions: a cross-grade-level analysis using eye-tracking2
Quality of preschool teachers’ mediation of early years mathematics in play-responsive teaching activities2
Cheap plot tricks and plot holes in mathematical stories2
What and how you ask determines what you get2
Collaborating with mathematicians to use active learning in university mathematics courses: the importance of attending to mathematicians’ obligations2
Mathematical reasoning in elementary grade classrooms in India: what is there and what is missing?2
On the origin, characteristics, and usefulness of instrumental and relational understanding2
A scoping literature review of the impact and evaluation of mathematics and statistics support in higher education2
Lesson study with caregivers as a resource for a culturally sustaining mathematics pedagogy for multilingual learners2
Students’ concept image of 0!2
Book Review: Exploring how to teach multiplication through the Japanese and Ibero-American theories. Masami Isoda & Raimundo Olfos (Eds.). (2021) Teaching multiplication with lesson study: Japanes1
Decentralising mathematics: Mutual development of spontaneous and mathematical concepts via informal reasoning1
Homework at university—relations to study success and students’ characteristics1
Playing to know the world mathematically1
Mathematical strategies and emergence of socially mediated metacognition within a multi-touch Dynamic Geometry Environment1
“Mathematics is a battle, but I’ve learned to survive”: becoming a disabled student in university mathematics1
Teachers’ learning from addressing the challenges of online teaching in a time of pandemic: a case in Shanghai1
Twenty years of research on technology in mathematics education at CERME: a literature review based on a data science approach1
Classifying arithmetic word problems from the Estelle Reel Papers collection1
Unpacking foreshadowing in mathematics teachers’ planned practices1
Study of modeling questions in a first-year university mathematics online course1
Mathematicians’ values and norms related to algorithms, definitions, and proofs: How do they interrelate?1
The surprising obstacle of two unknowns on the same side of the equal sign in solving equations of the type ax ± b ± cx = d and the phenomenon of ignoring the unknown1
Norms of mathematical definitions: imposing constraints, permitting choice, or both?1
Book Review: Exploring Piaget’s genetic epistemology as a theoretical foundation in mathematics education. Paul Christian Dawkins, Amy J. Hackenberg, & Anderson Norton (Eds.) (2024) Piaget’s genet1
Book Review: Viviane Durand-Guerrier, Reinhard Hochmuth, Elena Nardi, & Carl Winsløw (Eds.) (2021) Research and development in university mathematics education1
Using critical incidents as a tool for promoting prospective teachers’ noticing during reflective discussions in a fieldwork-based university course1
Learning to measure the area of composite shapes1
The equality 0.999… = 1, what does it exemplify? Exploring spaces of an example1
Beyond intuitive models: exploring the role of gestures in learning multiplication and division1
The transition from school to university in mathematics education research: new trends and ideas from a systematic literature review1
How eye tracking may advance the field of mathematics education: a commentary on the ESM Special Issue on eye-tracking research in mathematics education1
Meta-mathematical aspects of definitions1
Changes in students’ self-efficacy when learning a new topic in mathematics: a micro-longitudinal study1
When is less more? Investigating gap-filling in proofs without words activities1
Proposing and testing a model relating students’ graph selection and graph reasoning for dynamic situations1
The role of the partitioning and coset algorithm quotient group partial meanings in comprehending the First Isomorphism Theorem and its proof1
An embodied approach to covariational reasoning: a hand-tracking study1
A need for intersectional analysis in research on parental engagement in mathematics education: a systematic review1
Connecting algorithmics to mathematics learning: a design study of the intermediate value theorem and the bisection algorithm1
Shifting the ways prospective teachers frame and notice student mathematical thinking: from deficits to strengths1
Analyzing the written discourse in calculus textbooks over 42 years: the case of primary objects, concrete discursive objects, and a realization tree of the derivative at a point1
Eye movements in the development of geometric shape recognition: from sensory-motor processes to theoretical perception1
Student approaches to generating mathematical examples: comparing e-assessment and paper-based tasks1
How do parents communicate and students receive their expectations in mathematics?1
Mis-in and mis-out concept images: the case of even numbers1
What does it mean to treat logical implications as objects? The case of Zeke1
Interactional practices of inviting minoritized students to whole-class mathematics discussions1
Book Review: Learning from the history of mathematics education. Alexander Karp (Ed.) (2022). Advances in the history of mathematics education1
A method for assessing students’ interpretations of contextualized data1
Shame, entitlement, and the systemic racism of mathematics “ability” grouping in Aotearoa New Zealand1
Anna Sierpińska, 1947–20231
Editorial1
Types of mathematical tasks in lower secondary classrooms in Germany1
Editorial1
Book review: Alan Schoenfeld, Heather Fink, Sandra Zuñiga-Ruiz, Siqi Huang, Xinyu Wei, and Brantina Chirinda (2023) Helping students become powerful thinkers: case studies of teaching for robust under1
The servants of two discourses: how novice facilitators draw on their mathematics teaching experience1
Development of interest in mathematics and mathematical self-concept at the transition from school to university and its relation to study success1
Extrema points: concept images, mis-in and mis-out examples1
Teachers’ beliefs on integrating children’s literature in mathematics teaching and learning in Indonesia1
Mathematics teacher educators brokering caregiving experiences to enhance communication with families1
Do mathematicians and undergraduates agree about explanation quality?1
Book review: Charting a career and its influence. Jinfa Cai, Gabriel J. Stylianides, and Patricia Ann Kenney (Eds.) (2023) Research studies on learning and teaching of mathematics: dedicated to Edward1
Author Correction: Shifting the ways prospective teachers frame and notice student mathematical thinking: from deficits to strengths1
Book Review: Applying values in mathematics education. Yüksel Dede, Gosia Marschall, and Philip Clarkson (Eds.) (2024) Values and valuing in mathematics education: moving forward into practice1
Seeing the continuity behind “double discontinuity”: investigating Hong Kong prospective mathematics teachers’ secondary–tertiary transition1
Modeling-oriented student noticing: an exploratory investigation1
Connecting characterizations of equivalence of expressions: design research in Grade 5 by bridging graphical and symbolic representations1
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