Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
Nilsson, P. , Innabi, H. (2025). Designing for sampling distributions : a variation theory perspective . Mathematical Thinking and Learning .
Status: Epub ahead of print
Nilsson, P. , Eckert, A. (2024). Design principles for simulation-based learning of hypothesis testing in secondary school . Mathematical Thinking and Learning . 26 (4). 359-381.
Status: Published
Alstad, E., Berre, M., Nilsson, P. (2024). Exploring spherical units as perceptual clues in enumerating 3D arrays . Mathematics Education Research Journal . 36. 671-693.
Status: Published
Alstad, E., Berre, M., Nilsson, P. (2023). Exploring units-locating in enumerating units of 3D arrays : linking units-locating to units-representation . Mathematics Education Research Journal . 35 (3). 583-605.
Status: Published
Nilsson, P. (2023). Hypothetical learning trajectory on informal hypothesis testing in a probability context . Statistics Education Research Journal . 22 (2).
Status: Published
Harvey, F., Nilsson, P. (2022). Contradictions and their manifestations in professional learning communities in mathematics . Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education . 25 (6). 697-723.
Status: Published
Nilsson, P. (2020). A Framework for Investigating Qualities of Procedural and Conceptual Knowledge in Mathematics : An inferentialist perspective . Journal for Research in Mathematics Education . 51 (5). 574-599.
Status: Published
Nilsson, P. (2020). Students’ Informal Hypothesis Testing in a Probability Context with Concrete Random Generators . Statistics Education Research Journal . 19 (3). 53-73.
Status: Published
Nilsson, P. (2019). An Inferentialist Perspective on How Note-taking can Constrain the Orchestration of Math-Talk . Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research . 63 (7). 1121-1133.
Status: Published
Iversen, K., Nilsson, P. (2019). Lower secondary school students’ reasoning about compound probability in spinner tasks . Journal of Mathematical Behavior . 56.
Status: Published
Schindler, M., Hußmann, S., Nilsson, P. , Bakker, A. (2017). Sixth-grade students’ reasoning on the order relation of integers as influenced by prior experience : an inferentialist analysis . Mathematics Education Research Journal . 29 (4). 471-492.
Status: Published
Nilsson, P. , Ryve, A. (2014). The nature and role of common ground in the learning of mathematics in small-group discussions . Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research . 58 (5). 609-623.
Status: Published
Nilsson, P. (2013). Challenges in seeing data as useful evidence in making predictions on the probability of a real-world phenomenon . Statistics Education Research Journal . 12 (2). 71-83.
Status: Published
Nilsson, P. , Lindström, T. (2013). Profiling Swedish Teachers' Knowledge Base in Probability . Nordisk matematikkdidaktikk, NOMAD : [Nordic Studies in Mathematics Education] . 18 (4). 51-72.
Status: Published
Ryve, A., Larsson, M., Nilsson, P. (2013). Analyzing content and participation in classroom discourse : Dimensions of variation, mediating tools, and conceptual accountability . Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research . 57 (1). 101-114.
Status: Published
Ryve, A., Nilsson, P. , Pettersson, K. (2013). Analyzing effective communication in mathematics group work : the role of visual mediators and technical terms . Educational Studies in Mathematics . 82 (3). 497-514.
Status: Published
Ryve, A., Nilsson, P. , Mason, J. (2011). Establishing mathematics for teaching within classroom interactions in teacher education . Educational Studies in Mathematics . 81 (1). 1-14.
Status: Published
Nilsson, P. , Juter, K. (2011). Flexibility and coordination among acts of visualization and analysis in a pattern generalization activity . Journal of Mathematical Behavior . 30 (3). 194-205.
Status: Published
Nilsson, P. , Ryve, A. (2010). Focal event, Contextualization, and Effective Communication in the Mathematics Classroom . Educational Studies in Mathematics . 74 (3). 241-258.
Status: Published
Nilsson, P. (2009). Conceptual variation and coordination in probability reasoning . Journal of Mathematical Behavior . 28 (4). 247-261.
Status: Published
Nilsson, P. (2009). Operationalizing the analytical construct of contextualization . Nordisk matematikkdidaktikk . 14 (1). 61-88.
Status: Published
Nilsson, P. (2007). Different ways in which students handle chance encounters in the explorative setting of a dice game . Educational Studies in Mathematics .
Status: Published
Iversen, K., Nilsson, P. (2007). Students’ Reasoning About One-Object Stochastic Phenomena in an ICT-Environment . International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning . 12 (2).
Status: Published
Conference paper (Refereed)
Nilsson, P. , Eckert, A. (2019). Color-coding as a means to support flexibility in pattern generalization tasks . Proceedings of the Eleventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education . 614-621.
Nilsson, P. , Schindler, M. (2018). The nature and use of theories in statistics education : looking back, looking forward . Looking back, looking forward : Tenth International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Kyoto, Japan, 8-13 July, 2018 .
Nilsson, P. , Ryve, A., Larsson, M. (2017). Characterizing theories aimed at supporting teachers’ mathematical classroom practices . CERME 10 : Proceedings of the 10th Congress of European Research in Mathematics Education . 3865-3872.
Bergman-Ärlebäck, J., Blomberg, P. , Nilsson, P. (2015). An instructional design perspective on data-modelling for learning statistics and modelling . Development of mathematics teaching: Design, Scale, Effects : Proceedings of MADIF 9, The Ninth mathematics Education Research Seminar . 37-46.
Nilsson, P. (2015). Building a local theory for the learning of experimental probability . Nordic research in mathematics education : Proceedings of NORMA14, Turku, June 3–6, 2014 . 318-328.
Nilsson, P. , Blomberg, P. , Berman-Ärlebäck, J. (2014). Exploring realistic Bayesian modeling situations . Sustainability in statistics education : Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Teaching Statistics .
Eckert, A. , Nilsson, P. (2013). Contextualizing Sampling : Teaching Challenges and Possibilities . Proceedings of the Eight Conference of European Research in Mathematics Education .
Nilsson, P. , Lindström, T. (2012). Connecting Swedish compolsory schoolteachers' content knowledge of probability to their level of education, teaching years and self-assessments of probability concepts .
Ebbelind, A. , Roos, H. , Nilsson, P. (2012). Learning fractions : transformations between representations from a social semiotic perspective of multimodality . Proceedings of Norma 11 : The Sixth Nordic Conference on Mathematics Education . 217-226.
Nilsson, P. , Sällström, K. , Nilsson, G. (2012). On the relationship between deterministic and probabilistic reasoning in modelling the chance of a natural phenomenon . Proceedings of Norma 11 : the sixth Nordic Conference on Mathmatics Education in Reykjavik, May 11-14, 2011 .
Roos, H. , Nilsson, P. (2012). An Inclusive Perspective on a Pedagogy for Students in Special Needs in Mathematics . Evaluation and Comparison of Mathematical Achievment : Dimensions and Perspectives : proceedings of MADIF 8 : the eighth Swedish mathematics education research seminar, Umeå, January 24-25, 2012 . 217-218.
Nilsson, P. , Sollervall, H. , Spikol, D. (2010). Mathematical learning processes supported by augmented reality . Proceedings of the 34th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education : Mathematics in different settings : PME 34, Belo Horizonte, Brazil . 337-344.
Nilsson, P. , Sollervall, H. , Milrad, M. (2009). Collaborative design of mathematical activities for learning in an outdoor setting . Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, CERME 6 . 1101-1110.
Nilsson, P. , Iversen, K. (2008). A CONTEXTUAL APPROACH ON LEARNING PROBABILITY . Proceedings of the 32nd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. .
Iversen, K., Nilsson, P. (2006). Students' meaning-making processes of random phenomena in an ICT-environment . Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education .
Chapter in book (Refereed)
Article, review/survey (Refereed)
Conference paper (Other academic)
Chapter in book (Other academic)
Nilsson, P. , Eckert, A., Pratt, D. (2018). Challenges and opportunities in experimentation-based instruction in probability Teaching and Learning Probability : Advances in Probability Education Research . Springer.
Nilsson, P. , Schindler, M., Bakker, A. (2018). The nature and use of theories in statistics education International Handbook of Research in Statistics Education . Springer. 359-386.
Juter, K., Nilsson, P. (2011). Begreppsbildning i sociala sammanhang : Att analysera matematisk aktivitet på två nivåer Matematikundervisning : Vetenskapliga perspektiv . Stockholm, Stockholms universitets förlag. 41-64.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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