Olov Viirman

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Education

E-mail:: olov.viirman@edu.uu.se
Visiting address:: Von Kraemers allé 1 A
752 37 Uppsala
Postal address:: Box 2136
750 02 Uppsala

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Short presentation

I am associate professor in the didactics of mathematics. My research mainly concerns the teaching and learning of mathematics at university level, including the preparation of secondary mathematics teachers. I mainly teach mathematics education courses for prospective secondarý mathematics teachers.

Research

My principal research interest is the teaching and learning of mathematics at the university level. In my research I have mainly drawn on the commognitive framework, a discourse-analytic framework for studying the teaching and learning of mathematics, but I have also taken an institutional perspective. My research has, for instance, focused on university mathematics lecturers teaching of the function concept; the mathematical learning of biology students working on mathematical modelling problems set in a biological context; how mathematics lectures serve to model mathematical discourse for students; and how the limit concept is structured at different educational levels in Sweden, England and France.

Currently I'm leading a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council: Enabling prospective upper secondary mathematics teachers' teaching in calculus through an interdisciplinary Mathematics and Didactics university course (Registration number 2024-04698).