Olov Viirman

To prove or not to prove?: A case study of one university mathematics lecturer's substantiation routines

Norris, Jennifer; Viirman, Olov

Part of INDRUM 2024 Proceedings, p. 871-880, 2024

TWG5: Teachers’ and students’ practices and experiences

Thoma, Athina; Viirman, Olov

Part of Proceedings of INDRUM 2024, p. 715-719, 2024

Collaboration between mathematicians and mathematics educators in secondary teacher education.

Viirman, Olov; Asami-Johansson, Yukiko; Bergman Ärlebäck, Jonas; Cronhjort, Mikael et al.

Part of Mediating mathematics, p. 133-137, 2024

Analysing the Mathematical Discourse of Biology Assignments: The Case of a Graduate Fisheries Management Course

Tetaj, Floridona; Viirman, Olov

Part of International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, p. 375-397, 2023

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The Limit Notion at Three Educational Levels in Three Countries

Viirman, Olov; Vivier, Laurent; Monaghan, John

Part of International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, p. 222-244, 2022

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Analysing the Mathematical Discourse of Biology Assignments: The Case of a Graduate Fisheries Management Course

Tetaj, Floridona; Viirman, Olov

Part of International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, p. 375-397, 2023

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The Limit Notion at Three Educational Levels in Three Countries

Viirman, Olov; Vivier, Laurent; Monaghan, John

Part of International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, p. 222-244, 2022

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A small-scale implementation of inquiry-based teaching in a single-variable calculus course for first-year engineering students

Viirman, Olov; Pettersson, Irina

Part of Hiroshima Journal of Mathematics Education, p. 129-139, 2022

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University Mathematics Lecturing as Modelling Mathematical Discourse

Viirman, Olov

Part of International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, p. 466-489, 2021

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Running to keep up with the lecturer or gradual de-ritualization?: Biology students' engagement with construction and data interpretation graphing routines in mathematical modelling tasks

Viirman, Olov; Nardi, Elena

Part of Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 2021

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"I'm still making dots for them": mathematics lecturers' views on their mathematical modelling practices

Hernandez-Martinez, Paul; Thomas, Stephanie; Viirman, Olov; Rogovchenko, Yuriy

Part of International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, p. 165-177, 2021

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Negotiating different disciplinary discourses: Biology students’ ritualized and exploratory participation in mathematical modelling activities

Viirman, Olov; Nardi, Elena

Part of Educational Studies in Mathematics, p. 233-252, 2019

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Explanation, motivation and question posing routines in university mathematics teachers' pedagogical discourse: a commognitive analysis

Viirman, Olov

Part of International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, p. 1165-1181, 2015

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The functions of function discourse: university mathematics teaching from a commognitive standpoint

Viirman, Olov

Part of International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, p. 512-527, 2014

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Commognitive analyses of the learning and teaching of mathematics at university level: The case of discursive shifts in the study of Calculus

Nardi, Elena; Ryve, Andreas; Stadler, Erika; Viirman, Olov

Part of Research in Mathematics Education, p. 182-198, 2014

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Different views: some Swedish mathematics students' concept images of the function concept

Viirman, Olov; Attorps, Iiris; Tossavainen, Timo

Part of Nordisk matematikkdidaktikk, NOMAD, p. 5-24, 2010

Joy of mathematical modelling: A forgotten perspective?

Rogovchenko, Yuriy; Viirman, Olov; Treffert-Thomas, Stephanie

Part of Mathematical modelling education and sense-making, p. 95-106, Springer International Publishing, 2020

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The function concept and university mathematics teaching

Viirman, Olov

2014

To prove or not to prove?: A case study of one university mathematics lecturer's substantiation routines

Norris, Jennifer; Viirman, Olov

Part of INDRUM 2024 Proceedings, p. 871-880, 2024

TWG5: Teachers’ and students’ practices and experiences

Thoma, Athina; Viirman, Olov

Part of Proceedings of INDRUM 2024, p. 715-719, 2024

Collaboration between mathematicians and mathematics educators in secondary teacher education.

Viirman, Olov; Asami-Johansson, Yukiko; Bergman Ärlebäck, Jonas; Cronhjort, Mikael et al.

Part of Mediating mathematics, p. 133-137, 2024

Teacher learning from team teaching an advanced course in mathematics and didactics for prospective upper secondary teachers

Viirman, Olov; Jacobsson, Magnus

Part of Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the International Network for Didactic Research in University Mathematics, 2022

Klein's double discontinuity around the world: the case of calculus

Viirman, Olov

Part of Proceedings of the Twelfth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, 2022

The many functions of the university mathematics lecture

Viirman, Olov

2022

A praxeological comparison of algebra content in vocational and academic preparatory programmes in Sweden

Hällback, Matilda; Bråting, Kajsa; Viirman, Olov

Part of Twelfth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME12), 2022

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Exemplifying different methodological approaches of analysing textbooks in mathematics

Bråting, Kajsa; Kilhamn, Cecilia; Viirman, Olov; Dyrvold, Anneli et al.

Part of Proceedings of MADIF 13, p. 125-129, 2022

How epistemological characteristics influence the design of a course in projective geometry

Viirman, Olov; Jacobsson, Magnus

Part of Sustainable mathematics education in a digitalized world, p. 267, 2020

Epistemological characteristics influencing didactic choices in course planning: The cases of basic topology and differential geometry

Viirman, Olov; Jacobsson, Magnus

Part of Eleventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, 2019

A case study on mathematical routines in undergraduate biology students’ group-work

Tetaj, Floridona; Viirman, Olov

Part of Eleventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, 2019

Research Forum: Rituals and explorations in mathematical teaching and learning

Heyd-Metzuyanim, Einat; Adler, Jill; Lavie, Irit; Nachlieli, Talli et al.

Part of Proceedings: 43rd Annual Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 1), p. 137-164, 2019

What to do when there is no formula? Navigating between less and more familiar routines for determining velocity in a calculus task for engineering students.

Viirman, Olov; Pettersson, Irina

Part of Calculus in upper secondary and beginning university mathematics – Conference proceedings. Kristiansand, Norway: MatRIC, p. 167-170, 2019

Characteristics of participation: A mathematician and a mathematics educator collaborating on a developmental research project

Viirman, Olov

Part of Proceedings of INDRUM 2018 Second conference of the International Network for Didactic Research in University Mathematics, p. 442-451, 2018

Programming in mathematics teacher education: A collaborative teaching approach

Viirman, Olov; Pettersson, Irina; Björklund, Johan; Boustedt, Jonas

p. 464-465, 2018

Ritualised and exploratory graphing routines in mathematical modelling: The Digoxin task

Viirman, Olov; Nardi, Elena

Part of Proceedings of the 42nd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 1), p. 363-370, 2018

From ritual to exploration: The evolution of biology students’ mathematical discourse through mathematical modelling activities

Viirman, Olov; Nardi, Elena

Part of Proceedings of CERME10, p. 2274-2281, 2017

An exploration of students’ discourse using Sim2Bil within group work: A commognitive perspective

Hogstad, Ninni Marie; Viirman, Olov

p. 1243-1248, 2017

Using mathematical modelling activities to motivate biology students to learn mathematics

Viirman, Olov; Goodchild, Simon; Rogovchenko, Yuiry

Part of Proceedings of the 40th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, p. 262, 2016

The development of the mathematical discourse of biology students working with mathematical modelling

Viirman, Olov

p. 253-254, 2016

The constitution of the nature of mathematics in the lecturing practices of three university mathematics teachers

Viirman, Olov

Part of Proceedings of the ninth congress of the European mathematical society for research in mathematics education, p. 2263-2269, 2015

The role of mathematics in the design of engineering programs: a case study of two Scandinavian universities

Viirman, Olov

Part of Didactics of Mathematics in Higher Education asa Scientific Discipline , p. 502-507, 2015

Teaching Inverse Functions at Tertiary level

Attorps, Iiris; Björk, Kjell; Radic, Mirko; Viirman, Olov

Part of CERME 8, p. 2524-2533, 2013

What we talk about when we talk about functions: Characteristics of the function concept in the discursive practices of three university teachers

Viirman, Olov

Part of Proceedings of the eighth congress of the European mathematical society for research in mathematics education, p. 2466-2475, 2013

The teaching of functions as a discursive practice: University mathematics teaching from a commognitive standpoint

Viirman, Olov

Part of Proceedings of the 12^th international congress on mathematical education, p. 1559-1568, 2012

Discourses of functions: University mathematics teaching through a commognitive lens

Viirman, Olov

Part of Proceedings of the Seventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, p. 2103-2112, 2011

Discursive practices of two university teachers on the concept of 'linear transformation'

Viirman, Olov

Part of Developing Mathematical Thinking, p. 313-320, 2011

Different views: Teacher and engineering students on the concept of function

Viirman, Olov

Part of Perspectives on Mathematical Knowledge, p. 97-106, 2008

The many faces of function - students' understanding of the function concept

Viirman, Olov

Part of Conceptions and Beliefs in Mathematics and Science Education including MAVI XIII, p. 87-97, 2007

Book review: Approaches to qualitative research in mathematics education: examples of methodology and methods

Viirman, Olov

Part of Research in Mathematics Education, p. 247-251, 2015

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