Fostering mathematical thinking, communication, and creativity has become a central goal in mathematics education as these competencies are strongly linked to flexible problem solving and innovative engagement. Prior research has shown that students&...
Mathematical thinking (MT) has been one of the most important goals for mathematics education as it can support sustainable mathematics learning. Its role in school mathematics has recently been explicitly identified as one of “Four Basics&rdqu...
School is a space where learning mathematics should be accompanied by the student’s preferences; however, its valuation in the classroom is not necessarily the same. From a quantitative approach, we ask from the mathematical thinking styles (MTS) the...
Making use of a phenomenological stance which first and foremost values the lived experience of learners, six tasks are used to illustrate what it might mean for a mathematical task to be deemed worthy of being offered to learners. These take the for...
Critical, creative, and flexible thinking is one of the educational priorities in the 21st Century, at a time in which the world is showing its most ephemeral and uncertain side. In this sense, visible thinking is a fundamental tool for achieving mor...
As conversational artificial intelligence (CAI), including smart speakers, social robots, and dialogic learning apps, becomes increasingly present in children’s lives, its potential to support early mathematical thinking warrants closer attenti...
Algebraic thinking, combinatorial thinking and reasoning skills are considered as playing central roles within teaching and learning in the field of mathematics, particularly in solving complex open-ended mathematical problems Specific relations betw...
This study was to investigate the relationship between metacognition and the mathematical modeling skills of high school students, as well as the mediating role of computational thinking. A cluster sampling method was adopted to investigate 661 high...
Auxiliary line construction has been identified as a crucial approach to fostering mathematical creative thinking. However, existing studies have only focused on the correlations between auxiliary line construction tasks and mathematical creative thi...
This research aims to investigate the impact of professional materials’ interpretation on the decision-making of preservice secondary teachers when analyzing the mathematical thinking of a 15–16-year-old high school student engaged in ari...
As the capacity to monitor and regulate one’s own cognitive processes, metacognition is considered pivotal for mathematics learning and the development of higher-order thinking skills. However, research from a person-centered perspective remain...
Education nowadays requires a certain variety of resources that allow for the acquisition of 21st-century skills, including computational thinking. Educational robotics emerges as a digital resource that supports the development of these skills in bo...
Developing flexible thinking, generating alternative solution strategies, and producing original ideas are increasingly emphasized in mathematics education. This study examines the relationships among preservice elementary mathematics teachers’ probl...
Although play naturally embeds computational thinking (CT) and mathematical learning in early childhood education, designing developmentally appropriate learning activities that purposefully nurture and extend these competencies remains a challenge....
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are increasingly integrated into mathematics education, yet most reviews emphasize achievement rather than how AI shapes mathematical thinking. This scoping review mapped literature published between 2020 and 2026 o...
This article explores what impact a program of IT programming (Scratch and Python) activities has on the logical-mathematical reasoning of high school children. The sample comprised a group of 388 high school students, spanning first-year compulsory...
The examination of thinking skills has become a contemporary and imperative focus within educational research, capturing considerable attention from scholars. The present study endeavors to explore the mediating role of critical thinking tendency in...
Structural thinking is widely recognized as an important aspect of mathematical thinking, yet the role of structuring representations in supporting generalization has received relatively little attention. This study examined how pre-service mathemati...
Computational thinking has been increasingly recognised as a core component of mathematics education, particularly in areas where analytical reasoning and computational practices intersect. However, limited empirical research has examined how computa...
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In the contemporary era, Computational Thinking has emerged as a crucial skill for individuals to possess in order to thrive in the 21st century. In this context, there is a need to develop a methodology for cultivating these skills within a science...
This study aims to examine the thematic coherence among preservice mathematics teachers’ noticing components when analysing students’ thinking about classification in geometry, as well as the actions they propose to respond to those stude...
Developing pre-service mathematics teachers’ ability to understand students’ mathematical thinking and anticipate students’ difficulties remains a challenge in teacher education. This exploratory mixed-methods study involved 21 pre-...
In recent years, the inclusion of computational thinking in education has become very important. This is a response to the needs of the evolution of our society and the skills demanded in students to obtain practical and integrated training. For this...
Computational thinking (CT) is increasingly being integrated into educational curricula alongside mathematical thinking (MT) within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. Physical computing devices now support low-code pr...
In science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) education, artificial intelligence (AI) analytics are useful as educational scaffolds to educe (draw out) the students’ AI-Thinking skills in the form of AI-assisted human-centr...
With increasing attention on the potential overlap between computational thinking (CT) and mathematical reasoning, STEM education researchers seek to understand how integrating CT and mathematics can deepen student learning across disciplines. Althou...
In this study, prospective teachers engaged in professional noticing of their students’ mathematical thinking captured in pieces of written work. Researchers then worked to characterize the prospective teachers’ professional noticing usin...
This article focuses on the contributions of the still-scarce corroborations available on the social nature of the metacognitive regulation of joint attempts in order to offer systematic means to operationalize and analyze shared regulation. The math...
This article considers a partly philosophical question: What are the ontological and epistemological reasons for using quantum-like models or theories (models and theories based on the mathematical formalism of quantum theory) vs. classical-like ones...
This study examines how domain-general (processing speed and receptive vocabulary) and domain-specific (symbolic and non-symbolic comparison) cognitive skills contribute to early informal mathematical thinking in preschoolers. The aim was to assess t...
This research was conducted in 2019 in collaboration with Japanese colleagues, with the research tasks translated from the original Japanese. In Finland, a total of 1112 students from grades 7–9 in primary school participated in the study. In o...
This study evaluates whether theory-informed, mathematically focused support can ease the school-to-university transition in an unequal South African STEM context. First-year students could voluntarily attend Mathematical Thinking Workshops (MTWs) gr...
Our mathematical thinking sheds light on how we see our world and what knowledge we have about it. In spite of this, mathematical performance is still mostly measured in calculation skills, and this also predestines the success of learning. So at sch...
The social, scientific and technological development of recent years has encouraged the incorporation of computational thinking in the school curriculum of various countries progressively, starting from early childhood education. This research aims t...
University mathematics-support programs rarely test their theoretical foundations against student evidence, particularly in the Global South. This study addresses that gap by analyzing how students’ experiences in Mathematical Thinking Workshop...
Computational thinking is considered a set of skills necessary for living and working in today’s society. It has recently become part of mathematics curricula in several European countries. In this study, we offer a glimpse into the informal cl...
This study examines the performances of gifted and talented high schoolers in transforming computational thinking skills and mathematical knowledge into creative STEM project production. A mixed-methods sequential explanatory research design involvin...
This study is focused on the analysis of the level of geometric thinking of 15-year-old Slovak pupils in relation to the difficulty of geometric problems, their gender, and their assessment in mathematics. The main aim of this study was to determine...
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is mostly used in education to generate solutions, provide feedback or support instruction; approaches that use AI outputs as objects of comparison and reflection remain less explored. This small-scale explorat...
This study examines how preschool teachers reflect on their role in challenging children’s mathematical thinking in play. The study was conducted with participants in Italy and Sweden, and data were collected through focus group discussions. We...
This study explored individual differences among senior high school students in detecting and correcting logical errors in mathematical reasoning. Eight participants with high and average mathematical abilities each were recruited from a key high sch...
The current society is based on science and technology, depending partly on mathematics. It leads to citizens’ success in school mathematics, being measured through achievement, which can be predicted by affective, cognitive, and behavioral variables...
This article develops a local theory for characterizing metric thinking in the measurement of spatial properties from a multilevel curricular perspective, understood as an analytic lens for scaling measurement processes across curricular complexity r...
Computational thinking skills among high school students have become a global concern, especially in the context of the ever-evolving digital education era. However, the attention given by teachers to this skill during mathematics instruction has not...
Grouping, classification, and logical reasoning activities in early childhood education have traditionally been grounded in classical set theory and binary logic. Fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic extend this framework by allowing degrees of membershi...
This study investigates how pre-service primary education teachers (PSTs) develop geometric thinking when exposed to an instructional approach based on van Hiele’s theory. Ninety undergraduate students were divided into experimental and control...
Transfer of learning, the application of learning to different contexts over time, is important to all learning for development. As 21st century skills specifically aim to be “generic,” there is an assumption that they can be transferred...
In the United States, teachers are often expected to use student assessment data to inform their instructional decisions. This study explores how teachers’ collective reflections on students’ mathematical thinking are influenced by the sp...
The aim of this paper is to discuss the emergence of recursive thinking through the famous problem posed by Fibonacci regarding the growth of the rabbit population. This paper qualitatively analyzes and discusses the semiotic aspects raised by the st...
This article deals with the quality of dialogue between preschool teachers and children during mathematical activities. Thoughtful and attentive dialogue captures children’s attention and allows them to reason, express thoughts and disagreement...
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