Learning and Teaching of Mathematics

The Research Environment on Learning and Teaching of Mathematics brings together researchers with diverse backgrounds and levels of experience in mathematics education. The environment provides a collaborative platform for exploring the processes, conditions, and outcomes of mathematics learning and teaching from early childhood to higher education. In this sense, we aim to advance high quality research that deepens understanding of how mathematics is taught, learned, and used across educational contexts. Our vision is to contribute to equitable, meaningful, and research informed mathematics education by generating new knowledge, supporting teacher development, and strengthening connections between research, practice, and society.

Our research addresses a broad range of themes, including:

• Teacher education and professional development
• Communication and interaction in mathematics classrooms
• Students' mathematical thinking, reasoning, and problem solving
• Opportunities and challenges in learning mathematics
• Analyses of textbooks and curriculum materials
• Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) and mathematical modelling
• Problem solving and problem posing

The environment engages with learners and educators across the educational spectrum, including young children, compulsory school students, upper secondary students, university students (such as prospective teachers and engineering students), and in service teachers.

The environment engages with learners and educators across the educational spectrum, including young children, compulsory school students, upper secondary students, university students (such as prospective teachers and engineering students), and in service teachers.

Researchers in the environment participate in a range of activities that support both individual and collective scholarly development, such as regular research seminars, invited talks by national and international scholars, thematic working groups for project development, proposal refinement, collaborative writing, and manuscript review, and joint initiatives aimed at strengthening methodological and theoretical competence. 

These activities foster a dynamic and supportive research culture.

The environment consists of three interconnected research groups:

1. Research on Mathematics Teacher Education and Professional Development
2. Research on Mathematical Thinking and Learning
3. Research on Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning

Researchers in the environment are active in several national and international networks, including:

• Svensk förening för MatematikDidaktisk Forskning (SMDF)
• Nationellt Centrum för Matematikutbildning (NCM)
• International Community of Teachers of Mathematical Modelling and Applications (ICTMA)
• Congress of European Research in Mathematics Education (CERME)
• The International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME)

Members of the environment collaborate with researchers across Sweden and internationally, including partners in Norway, Germany, Spain, Brazil, Türkiye, and the United States.

The research environment is led by a steering group consisting of Professor Serife Sevinc and Associate Professor Anna Teledahl.