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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Mathematical literacy in context Learning and teaching for mathematical literacy: making mathematics useful for everyone , by Hugh Bur	24
Sequencing & selecting solutions in a gendered world	21
Modeling the phenomenon versus modeling the data set	21
A game-based approach to promoting adaptive rational number knowledge	17
Counting the stars: advancing mathematical activity in a scripting journey	15
Mathematical thinking about systems – students modeling a biometrics identity verification system	15
Developing initial notions of variability when learning about box plots	11
Transforming learning opportunities in linguistically diverse secondary classrooms through promoting discussions: results of an intervention	10
Understanding the nature of arithmetical concepts–important content for the education of primary mathematics teachers	9
The role of patterning skills in early mathematical development: an analysis of all dimensions of visual perception	7
A digital-embodied design for functional thinking in the classroom	6
Modeling from a cognitive perspective: theoretical considerations and empirical contributions	6
Inscribing proportional relationships using partitioning, co-occurrence, and same extent	6
Preschool children’s repeating patterning skills: evidence of their capability from a large scale, naturalistic, Australia wide study	6
On students’ covariational reasoning in Bayesian situations: do calculation strategies and visualizations play a role?	5
Randomness and probability: exploring student teachers’ conceptions	4
Care in mathematics education: alternative educational spaces and practices Care in mathematics education: alternative educational spaces and practices , by Anne Watson,	4
Mathematical tools for real-world applications: a gentle introduction for students and practitioners	4
Progressions in young learners’ understandings of parity arguments	4
Metacognition in mathematical modeling: the connection between metacognitive individual strategies, metacognitive group strategies and modeling competencies	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?	3
Views on concept in mathematics education	3
Supporting students’ participation in collective argumentation: Use of displays in a secondary mathematics classroom	3

Structure recognition and generalization by second-graders in direct and inverse forms of a linear function	3
Learning through explaining and engaging with others’ mathematical ideas	3
The role of contextual knowledge in noticing students’ strategies in-the-moment	3
Building mathematical micro-identities through supporting productive struggle	3
Progression in units coordination: initial counterevidence for a transition that transcends mathematical domains	2
Exploring geometric reasoning development in early civil engineering education through structured problem-solving	2
How numbers influence students when solving linear equations	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
A century of ICMI—A century of mathematics education	2
The complexity of supporting reasoning in a mathematics classroom of shared authority	2
Sustaining quantitatively-grounded meanings for definite integrals in high school calculus	1
Middle school girls using generative AI to engage in mathematical problem-posing	1
Can we TRU-ly infrastructure instructional change? Book review of mathematics teaching on target and helping students become powerful mathematical thinker	1
Young children’s drawings of measurement and partitive division word problems	1
An examination of Japanese curriculum materials through quantitative and covariational reasoning: the treatment of linear functions	1
Elementary students’ fraction reasoning: a measurement approach to fractions in a dynamic environment	1
Critical mathematics education	1
Teachers’ knowledge of different forms of complex numbers through quantitative reasoning	1
Exploring the linguistic factors influencing concept identification	1
Examining the effects of an intervention on mathematical modeling in problem solving at upper elementary grades: a cluster randomized trial study	1
Identifying the types of collective engagement structures that manifest in middle-grade mathematics classrooms	1
Models and Modelling: The Fine Balance between Mathematics, Practice, and Research	1