OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of ZDM-Mathematics Education is 6. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The role and significance of the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions in the International Mathematics Education Community	62
Correction: Mathematics education research on language and on communication including some distinctions: where are we now?	50
Mechanisms and evidence of prospective teachers’ learning through enquiry-oriented practices: the case of a lesson study intervention	40
Problem solving in mathematics education: tracing its foundations and current research-practice trends	32
Two students’ mathematical thinking and activity across representational registers in a combinatorial setting	30
Mathematical creativity in modelling: further development of the construct, its measurement, and its empirical implementation	29
Encouraging research on recursive thinking through the lens of a model of the spread of contagious diseases	28
Different cognitive mechanisms for process-open and process-constrained problem solving	25
From the historical text to the classroom session: analysing the work of teachers-as-designers	24
Encountering ideas about teaching and learning mathematics in undergraduate mathematics courses	23
First encounter with constructing graphs in the functional thinking approach to school algebra in 3rd and 4th grades	22
Systematic review of learning trajectories in early mathematics	22
The role of teacher professional networks in Egypt’s mathematics education reform	21
“She was probing me to see if I knew”: Becoming a credible and confident PD facilitator	21
Common spaces matter: curricular experiences through mathematics with young prisoners and prospective teachers	20
Teaching tactics supporting beginner modelling in upper secondary	19
Structured mathematical modelling in an authentic scientific-engineering context	19
History of mathematics in the context of mathematics teachers’ education: a dialogical/ethical perspective	19
Different lenses on distributions and the integration of context knowledge in data-ing processes of primary school students	18
Russian influences on American mathematics education after 1991: historical roots of changes in extracurricular programs	17
Public engagement of underserved students with open civic data	17
Roles of technologies for future teaching in a pandemic: activity, agency, and humans-with-media	17
Comprehension of argumentation in mathematical text: what is the role of interest?	17
Primary students’ learning about citizenship through data science	17
Strengthening mathematical orientation: how university mathematics courses can gain relevance for pre-service teachers	16

Inclusive citizenship through mathematics education: a conceptual investigation	16
Emotions in mathematics learning: a systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Acting on totalities of infinite processes: constructing facets of an object conception	16
Connecting mathematics to STEM education: interdisciplinary teaching and learning facilitation	15
Studying while anxious: mathematics anxiety and the avoidance of solving practice problems during exam preparation in college calculus	15
Technology maker practices in mathematics learning in STEM contexts: a case in Brazil and two cases in Canada	15
Prospective Secondary Teachers’ Emergent Knowledge and Beliefs: Inquiry-Oriented Differential Equations Contributing to Teacher Preparation	15
Does school teaching experience matter in teaching prospective secondary mathematics teachers? Perspectives of university-based mathematics teacher educators	14
The MTSK model as a tool for designing tasks for teacher education	14
Investigating a teacher-perspective on pedagogical mathematical practices: possibilities for using mathematical practice to develop pedagogy in mathematical coursework	14
Incouple numbers and dedómetros: listening for meaning in bilingual children’s mathematical lexical inventions	13
Using academic mathematical knowledge when working on interface tasks–analyses of pre-service teachers’ arguments about rotationally symmetric figures	13
Connectivity in support of student co-design of innovative mathematics curriculum trajectories	13
Sourcing mathematical meaning as a dialogic process: meaning-focused and language-focused repairs	13
Traits of generalization of problem solution methods exhibited by potential mathematically gifted students when solving problems in a selection process	13
Generalisation in students with autism spectrum disorder: an exploratory study of strategies	12
Acknowledgements to reviewers 2022	12
Three embodied voices speaking on/to research on language, mathematics, and the learner	12
Fifth graders’ learning to solve equations: the impact of early arithmetic strategies	12
Experts’ intuitive mathematical discourses about integration in complex analysis	12
Edmond Halley and Apollonius: second-order historical knowledge in mathematics education	12
On understanding mathematical problem-posing processes	12
Epistemic emotions and pre-service mathematics teachers’ knowledge for teaching	11
Emotions and motivation in mathematics education: Where we are today and where we need to go	11
Primary source projects as textbook replacements: a commognitive analysis	11
Young students’ engagement with data to create decision trees	11
Seeds of algebraic thinking: a Knowledge in Pieces perspective on the development of algebraic thinking	11
Spatial-temporal-enactive structuring in combinatorial enumeration	11
A review of lesson study in mathematics education from 2015 to 2022: implementation and impact	11
Spatial modelling in second grade: creating crab colonies	10
Relevant mathematical modelling efforts for understanding COVID-19 dynamics: an educational challenge	10
Empirical research on creativity in mathematics (education): from the wastelands of psychology to the current state of the art	10
Pre-service mathematics teachers’ experiences and insights into the benefits and challenges of using explanatory videos in flipped modelling education	10
Nurturing mathematical creativity for the concept of arithmetic mean in a technologically enhanced ‘personalised mathematics and mathematics inquiry’ learning environment	10
Problem posing or mathematical modeling? The process of expert instructional design	10
Exploring students’ mathematical discussions in a multi-level hybrid learning environment	10
Exploring students’ constructions of data-based decision trees after an introductory teaching unit on machine learning	9
Preservice teachers’ mathematical understanding exhibited in problem posing and problem solving	9
Preparing prospective secondary teachers to teach mathematical reasoning and proof: the case of the role of examples in proving	9
Mathematical problem posing of elementary school students: the impact of task format and its relationship to problem solving	9
Keeping pace with innovations in data visualizations: A commentary for mathematics education in times of crisis	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	8
Teacher education for mathematical modelling: exploring the experiences of secondary school teachers in two courses	8
Moving beyond reflection and toward disruption in the post-field context of mathematics teacher education	8
Promoting a set-oriented way of thinking in a U.S. High School discrete mathematics class: a case study	8
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	8
Students’ collaborative creative process and its phases in mathematics: an explorative study using dual eye tracking and stimulated recall interviews	8
The Learner’s Perspective Study Methodology: a legacy for future researchers	8
Creativity in problem solving: integrating two different views of insight	8
Openness in mathematical modelling: do experiences of competence and autonomy mediate the effects of an intervention on modelling problems on task values and cost?	8

Factors influencing Japanese pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy in teaching mathematical modelling	8
Recent developments in using digital technology in mathematics education	8
Metacognitive activities in high school students’ mathematical modelling: findings from an epistemic network analysis	8
What is mathematics teaching talk for? A response based on three sites of practice in mathematics education	8
Conceptualizing teachers’ interactions with resources in crossing languages and cultures	8
Algebraic reasoning in years 5 and 6: classifying its emergence and progression using reverse fraction tasks	8
The role of M (mathematical worlds) in HPM (history and pedagogy of Mathematics) and in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics)	8
Effects of observation mode on ratings of teaching quality in secondary mathematics classrooms	7
Obstacles to in-service Chinese high school mathematics teachers’ implementation of mathematical modelling in classrooms: an empirical investigation of teachers’ perspectives	7
Conceptualizing functional relationships in an augmented reality environment: connecting real and virtual worlds	7
Probabilistic literacy and reasoning of prospective secondary school teachers when interpreting media news	7
ZIZO: a history-based approach to mathematics teacher education	7
Identifying and describing generic, specific, and catalytic enablers of mathematical modelling	7
Examining the key factors affecting teachers’ translation of a theoretical framework from English into a native language: the Turkish case	7
Publisher Correction: Professionalisation for inclusive mathematics–teacher education programs and changes in pre-service teachers’ beliefs and self-efficacy	7
First-year university students' self-regulated learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative longitudinal study	7
Trends in mathematics education and insights from a meta-review and bibliometric analysis of review studies	7
Futures for Post-Pandemic Mathematics Teacher Education: responsiveness and responsibility in the Face of a Crisis	7
The impact of COVID-19 on the format and nature of academic conferences in mathematics education	7
Designing an instrument to measure the development of techno-mathematical literacies in an innovative mathematics course for future engineers in STEM education	7
Empirical research on problem solving and problem posing: a look at the state of the art	7
Assessment in mathematics: a study on teachers’ practices in times of pandemic	7
Correction to: Generic dimensions of teaching quality: the german framework of three Basic Dimensions	7
Citizens’ data-ing with contemporary data in their daily life	7
Working with an instructional video on mathematical modeling: upper-secondary students’ perceived advantages and challenges	6
Metacognitive control during problem solving at early ages in programming tasks using a floor robot	6
Profiles of Chinese mathematics teachers’ teaching beliefs and their effects on students’ achievement	6
Teacher learning about collaborative learning: a case study	6
70 Years of problem posing in Chinese primary mathematics textbooks	6
Mathematicians’, mathematics educators’, and mathematics teachers’ professional conceptions of the school learning of mathematical modelling in China	6
Design of a pattern and correspondence unit to foster functional thinking in an elementary mathematics textbook	6
Examining the elements of culturally relevant pedagogy captured and missed in a measure of high-quality mathematics instruction	6
A time of changes in Eastern Europe: what is its interest for the mathematics educator?	6
The Iberoamerican mathematics olympiad, competition and community	6
High-quality use of representations in the mathematics classroom – a matter of the cultural perspective?	6
Using conceptual analyses to resolve the tension between advanced and secondary mathematics: the cases of equivalence and inverse	6
Motivational states in an undergraduate mathematics course: relations between facets of individual interest, task values, basic needs, and effort	6
The Brazilian Public Schools Math Olympics (OBMEP): 15 years promoting social mobility through academic achievement	6
Mathematical modelling of exponential growth as a rich learning environment for mathematics classrooms	6
Tales of research initiatives on university-level mathematics and primary historical sources	6
On the relationship between school mathematics and university mathematics: a comparison of three approaches	6
Correction: Common spaces matter: curricular experiences through mathematics with young prisoners and prospective teachers	6
How visualization and argumentation are articulated in research on teaching and learning geometry	6
Implementation of research on scriptwriting in an undergraduate mathematics course: a study of teacher-researcher collaboration	6