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Anita Valenta

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Anita Valenta

Associate Professor, mathematics education
Department of Teacher Education
Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences

anita.valenta@ntnu.no
+4773558985 +4797737661 Gunnerus gate 1, 406, Kalvskinnet
ILU, matematikk Undervisningspraksiser i matematikklærerutdanning
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  • Mathematics education

Publications

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2025

  • Arnesen, Kristin Krogh; Valenta, Anita; Radmehr, Farzad. (2025) Mathematical learning opportunities in YouTube resources: an investigation of content creators’ positioning and discourse. Educational Studies in Mathematics
    Academic article
  • Valenta, Anita. (2025) firkant – Store norske leksikon. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven)
    Popular scientific article
  • Valenta, Anita; Dahl, Heidi. (2025) Mathematics teacher educators’ teaching preparation work: An institutional perspective. International Journal of Educational Research
    Academic article
  • Valenta, Anita. (2025) Areal. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven)
    Popular scientific article
  • Valenta, Anita. (2025) Omkrets. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven)
    Popular scientific article
  • Arnesen, Kristin Krogh; Rø, Kirsti; Valenta, Anita; Ødegaard, Reidun Persdatter. (2025) Pre-service teachers’ role-plays of discussions promoting students’ mathematical reasoning.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2025) Bridging the empirical-deductive gap – the mathematics content matters.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2025) Role-play as an arena for pre-service teachers’ development of mathematical knowledge?.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2024

  • Radmehr, Farzad; Arnesen, Kristin Krogh; Valenta, Anita. (2024) Youtube Content Creators’ Discourse: A Multiple Case Study on the Cross Product using Commognition and Positioning Theory.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Valenta, Anita; Rø, Kirsti; Klock, Sigrid Iversen. (2024) A framework for reasoning in school mathematics: analyzing the development of mathematical claims. Educational Studies in Mathematics
    Academic article

2023

  • Arnesen, Kristin Krogh; Valenta, Anita. (2023) Lesson plays as an approach to learning to teach proving. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology
    Academic article
  • Langfeldt, Marit Buset; Valenta, Anita; Hansen, Torkel Haugan. (2023) Pre-service teachers’ use of the word explain when working on mathematical reasoning and proving.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2022

  • Aune, Tellef Ellingsen; Enge, Ole; Hindkjær, Christer Løkås; Iversen, Sigrid; Reitan, Lars Espen; Valenta, Anita. (2022) Hvorfor blir det slik?. Tangenten - Tidsskrift for matematikkundervisning
    Popular scientific article
  • Skott, Elisabeth Larsdatter Bakke; Valenta, Anita. (2022) Communication patterns in work on mathematical reasoning. Nordisk tidsskrift for utdanning og praksis
    Academic article
  • Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2022) Matematisk resonnering, argumentasjon og bevis på barnetrinnet.
    Chapter
  • Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2022) Helhetlig matematikkundervisning.
    Chapter
  • Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2022) Teaching practices promoting meta-level learning in work on exploration-requiring proving tasks. Journal of Mathematical Behavior
    Academic article

2021

  • Valenta, Anita; Rø, Kirsti; Ødegaard, Reidun Persdatter; Langfeldt, Marit Buset. (2021) Dekomponering av planleggingspraksis i en syklus av utforsking og utprøving i lærerutdanning. NOMAD – Nordisk matematikkdidaktikk
    Academic article

2020

  • Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2020) Bevisrelaterte kompetanser i læreplanen LK20 for matematikk i grunnskolen. Acta Didactica Norden (ADNO)
    Academic article

2019

  • Arnesen, Kristin Krogh; Enge, Ole; Rø, Kirsti; Valenta, Anita. (2019) Initial participation in a reasoning-and-proving discourse in elementary school teacher education.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Rø, Kirsti; Valenta, Anita; Langfeldt, Marit Buset; Ødegaard, Reidun Persdatter. (2019) Felles faglig planlegging. Tangenten - Tidsskrift for matematikkundervisning
    Academic article
  • Dahl, Heidi; Enge, Ole; Hansen, Torkel Haugan; Valenta, Anita. (2019) Lesson Plays as a Mirror on Prospective Teachers' Professional Knowledge for Mathematics Teaching. Mathematics Teacher Education and Development (MTED)
    Academic article
  • Dahl, Heidi; Enge, Ole; Hansen, Torkel Haugan; Valenta, Anita. (2019) Lesson Plays as a Mirror on Prospective Teachers' Professional Knowledge for Mathematics Teaching. Mathematics Teacher Education and Development (MTED)
    Academic article

2018

  • Fauskanger, Janne; Mosvold, Reidar; Valenta, Anita; Bjuland, Raymond. (2018) Good mathematics teaching as constructed in Norwegian teachers’ discourses.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2018) Narratives constructed in the discourse on early fractions.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2017

  • Strømskag, Heidi; Valenta, Anita. (2017) Constraints to a justification of commutativity of multiplication.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Valenta, Anita; Wæge, Kjersti. (2017) Rehearsals in work with in-service mathematics teachers.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2016

  • Valenta, Anita. (2016) Tallforståelse - begrepsmessig forståelse. Tangenten - Tidsskrift for matematikkundervisning
    Popular scientific article
  • Valenta, Anita. (2016) Tallforståelse - resonnering. Tangenten - Tidsskrift for matematikkundervisning
    Popular scientific article
  • Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2016) Tenkt samtale som redskap til å planlegge og gjennomføre matematikksamtaler.
    Chapter

2015

  • Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2015) Student teacher's work on reasoning and proving. Suomen ainedidaktinen tutkimusseura
    Academic article

2013

  • Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2013) Varierte representasjoner. Tangenten - Tidsskrift for matematikkundervisning
    Popular scientific article
  • Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2013) Student teachers' work on instructional explanations in multiplication - representations and conversions between them. NOMAD – Nordisk matematikkdidaktikk
    Academic article

2012

  • Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2012) Varierte tenkemåter og regnestrategier. Tangenten - Tidsskrift for matematikkundervisning
    Article in business/trade/industry journal

2011

  • Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2011) Argumentasjon og regnestrategier. Tangenten - Tidsskrift for matematikkundervisning
    Article in business/trade/industry journal

2010

  • Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2010) Utvikling av matematikklærerkompetansen hos studenter i allmennlærerutdanning :. FoU i praksis
    Academic article

2007

  • Smalø, Sverre Olaf; Valenta, Anita. (2007) TOP-STABLE AND LAYER-STABLE DEGENERATIONS AND Hom-ORDER. Colloquium Mathematicum
    Academic article

2006

  • Smalø, Sverre Olaf; Valenta, Anita. (2006) Finitely presented functors and degenerations. Communications in Algebra
    Academic article

2005

  • Smalø, Sverre Olaf; Valenta, Anita. (2005) Degenerations of k[t]/(t(r))-modules giving stratification of the orbits. Algebras and Representation Theory
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Arnesen, Kristin Krogh; Valenta, Anita; Radmehr, Farzad. (2025) Mathematical learning opportunities in YouTube resources: an investigation of content creators’ positioning and discourse. Educational Studies in Mathematics
    Academic article
  • Valenta, Anita. (2025) firkant – Store norske leksikon. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven)
    Popular scientific article
  • Valenta, Anita; Dahl, Heidi. (2025) Mathematics teacher educators’ teaching preparation work: An institutional perspective. International Journal of Educational Research
    Academic article
  • Valenta, Anita. (2025) Areal. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven)
    Popular scientific article
  • Valenta, Anita. (2025) Omkrets. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven)
    Popular scientific article
  • Valenta, Anita; Rø, Kirsti; Klock, Sigrid Iversen. (2024) A framework for reasoning in school mathematics: analyzing the development of mathematical claims. Educational Studies in Mathematics
    Academic article
  • Arnesen, Kristin Krogh; Valenta, Anita. (2023) Lesson plays as an approach to learning to teach proving. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology
    Academic article
  • Aune, Tellef Ellingsen; Enge, Ole; Hindkjær, Christer Løkås; Iversen, Sigrid; Reitan, Lars Espen; Valenta, Anita. (2022) Hvorfor blir det slik?. Tangenten - Tidsskrift for matematikkundervisning
    Popular scientific article
  • Skott, Elisabeth Larsdatter Bakke; Valenta, Anita. (2022) Communication patterns in work on mathematical reasoning. Nordisk tidsskrift for utdanning og praksis
    Academic article
  • Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2022) Teaching practices promoting meta-level learning in work on exploration-requiring proving tasks. Journal of Mathematical Behavior
    Academic article
  • Valenta, Anita; Rø, Kirsti; Ødegaard, Reidun Persdatter; Langfeldt, Marit Buset. (2021) Dekomponering av planleggingspraksis i en syklus av utforsking og utprøving i lærerutdanning. NOMAD – Nordisk matematikkdidaktikk
    Academic article
  • Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2020) Bevisrelaterte kompetanser i læreplanen LK20 for matematikk i grunnskolen. Acta Didactica Norden (ADNO)
    Academic article
  • Rø, Kirsti; Valenta, Anita; Langfeldt, Marit Buset; Ødegaard, Reidun Persdatter. (2019) Felles faglig planlegging. Tangenten - Tidsskrift for matematikkundervisning
    Academic article
  • Dahl, Heidi; Enge, Ole; Hansen, Torkel Haugan; Valenta, Anita. (2019) Lesson Plays as a Mirror on Prospective Teachers' Professional Knowledge for Mathematics Teaching. Mathematics Teacher Education and Development (MTED)
    Academic article
  • Dahl, Heidi; Enge, Ole; Hansen, Torkel Haugan; Valenta, Anita. (2019) Lesson Plays as a Mirror on Prospective Teachers' Professional Knowledge for Mathematics Teaching. Mathematics Teacher Education and Development (MTED)
    Academic article
  • Valenta, Anita. (2016) Tallforståelse - begrepsmessig forståelse. Tangenten - Tidsskrift for matematikkundervisning
    Popular scientific article
  • Valenta, Anita. (2016) Tallforståelse - resonnering. Tangenten - Tidsskrift for matematikkundervisning
    Popular scientific article
  • Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2015) Student teacher's work on reasoning and proving. Suomen ainedidaktinen tutkimusseura
    Academic article
  • Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2013) Varierte representasjoner. Tangenten - Tidsskrift for matematikkundervisning
    Popular scientific article
  • Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2013) Student teachers' work on instructional explanations in multiplication - representations and conversions between them. NOMAD – Nordisk matematikkdidaktikk
    Academic article
  • Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2012) Varierte tenkemåter og regnestrategier. Tangenten - Tidsskrift for matematikkundervisning
    Article in business/trade/industry journal
  • Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2011) Argumentasjon og regnestrategier. Tangenten - Tidsskrift for matematikkundervisning
    Article in business/trade/industry journal
  • Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2010) Utvikling av matematikklærerkompetansen hos studenter i allmennlærerutdanning :. FoU i praksis
    Academic article
  • Smalø, Sverre Olaf; Valenta, Anita. (2007) TOP-STABLE AND LAYER-STABLE DEGENERATIONS AND Hom-ORDER. Colloquium Mathematicum
    Academic article
  • Smalø, Sverre Olaf; Valenta, Anita. (2006) Finitely presented functors and degenerations. Communications in Algebra
    Academic article
  • Smalø, Sverre Olaf; Valenta, Anita. (2005) Degenerations of k[t]/(t(r))-modules giving stratification of the orbits. Algebras and Representation Theory
    Academic article

Part of book/report

  • Arnesen, Kristin Krogh; Rø, Kirsti; Valenta, Anita; Ødegaard, Reidun Persdatter. (2025) Pre-service teachers’ role-plays of discussions promoting students’ mathematical reasoning.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2025) Bridging the empirical-deductive gap – the mathematics content matters.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2025) Role-play as an arena for pre-service teachers’ development of mathematical knowledge?.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Radmehr, Farzad; Arnesen, Kristin Krogh; Valenta, Anita. (2024) Youtube Content Creators’ Discourse: A Multiple Case Study on the Cross Product using Commognition and Positioning Theory.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Langfeldt, Marit Buset; Valenta, Anita; Hansen, Torkel Haugan. (2023) Pre-service teachers’ use of the word explain when working on mathematical reasoning and proving.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2022) Matematisk resonnering, argumentasjon og bevis på barnetrinnet.
    Chapter
  • Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2022) Helhetlig matematikkundervisning.
    Chapter
  • Arnesen, Kristin Krogh; Enge, Ole; Rø, Kirsti; Valenta, Anita. (2019) Initial participation in a reasoning-and-proving discourse in elementary school teacher education.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Fauskanger, Janne; Mosvold, Reidar; Valenta, Anita; Bjuland, Raymond. (2018) Good mathematics teaching as constructed in Norwegian teachers’ discourses.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2018) Narratives constructed in the discourse on early fractions.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Strømskag, Heidi; Valenta, Anita. (2017) Constraints to a justification of commutativity of multiplication.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Valenta, Anita; Wæge, Kjersti. (2017) Rehearsals in work with in-service mathematics teachers.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2016) Tenkt samtale som redskap til å planlegge og gjennomføre matematikksamtaler.
    Chapter

Outreach

ARiL: Argumentasjon gjennom Rollespill i Lærerutdanninga

ARiL er en ressurspakke utviklet for matematikkundervisning i grunnskolelærerutdanning. Ressursene er ment å brukes av lærerutdannere i undervisning om matematisk resonnering, argumentasjon og bevis på mellomtrinnet.

2025

  • Academic lecture
    Rø, Kirsti; Valenta, Anita. (2025) Bruk av KI i arbeid med matematisk resonnering. KLæM 25: Konferanse for lærerutdannere i matematikk , Hamar 15.09.2025 - 17.09.2025

2024

  • Academic lecture
    Valenta, Anita; Radmehr, Farzad. (2024) The potentials of always- sometimes- never tasks for promoting reasoning and proving, and beyond. The 15th International Congress on Mathematical Education , Sydney 07.07.2024 - 14.07.2024
  • Academic lecture
    Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2024) Bridging the empirical-deductive gap – the mathematics content matters. NORMA-konferanse , København 04.06.2024 - 07.06.2024
  • Academic lecture
    Radmehr, Farzad; Arnesen, Kristin Krogh; Valenta, Anita. (2024) YouTube content creators’ discourse: a multiple case study on the cross product using commognition and positioning theory. International annual conference of the group for the psychology of mathematics education 17.07.2024 - 21.07.2024

2023

  • Lecture
    Arnesen, Kristin Krogh; Valenta, Anita; Ødegaard, Reidun Persdatter. (2023) Arbeid med undervisningspraksiser knyttet til resonnering og argumentasjon i grunnskolelærerutdanning. Konferanse for lærerutdannere i matematikk, Klæm23 , Røros 18.09.2023 - 20.09.2023

2022

  • Poster
    Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2022) Undervisningspraksiser som fremmer elevers læring innen arbeid med bevis i matematikk. Lærekraft 100. Arrangement i forbindelse med 100 år med lærerutdanning i Trondheim , Trondheim 03.10.2022 - 03.10.2022
  • Academic lecture
    Langfeldt, Marit Buset; Valenta, Anita. (2022) Decomposing the practice planning a mathematical discussion towards a given goal in Norwegian teacher education. Den 16. Nordiske Læreruddannelseskonference – Innovation i Undervisning og Læring 03.05.2022 - 05.05.2022

2021

  • Lecture
    Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2021) Bevisrelaterte kompetanser i LK20. Klaem21 Konferanse for lærerutdannere i matematikk , Trondheim 20.09.2021 - 22.09.2021

2020

  • Lecture
    Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2020) Reasoning and proving in primary school - when and how?. Network symposium - Argumentation and proof in the teaching and learning of primary school mathematics , Kristiansand 27.10.2020 - 28.10.2020

2019

  • Academic lecture
    Valenta, Anita. (2019) Initial participation in a reasoning-and-proving discourse in elementary school teacher education. CERME 11 , Utrecht 06.02.2019 - 10.02.2019

2017

  • Lecture
    Valenta, Anita. (2017) Matematikkens rolle og posisjon i skole. Realfagskonferanse , Trondheim 04.05.2017 - 04.05.2017
  • Academic lecture
    Fauskanger, Janne; Mosvold, Reidar; Valenta, Anita; Bjuland, Raymond. (2017) Good mathematics teaching as constructed in Norwegian teachers’ discourses. Nordic research in mathematics education conference (NORMA) , Stockholm 30.05.2017 - 02.06.2017
  • Academic lecture
    Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2017) Narratives constructed in an early fraction discourse. Nordic research in mathematics education conference (NORMA) , Stockholm 30.05.2017 - 02.06.2017
  • Academic lecture
    Strømskag, Heidi; Valenta, Anita. (2017) Justification of commutativity of multiplication at Grade 6. Tenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME 10) , Dublin 01.02.2017 - 05.02.2017

2016

  • Lecture
    Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2016) Samspillet mellom matematikk og matematikkdidaktikk i videreutdanning og eksamen. Fagseminar for tilbydere av videreutdanning i matematikk , Oslo 19.10.2016 - 20.10.2016

2013

  • Academic lecture
    Dahl, Heidi; Valenta, Anita. (2013) Utvikling av varierte regnestrategier gjennom korte matematiske samtaler. Novemberkonferansen 2013, Grunnleggende ferdigheter i faget matematikk , Trondheim 27.11.2013 - 28.11.2013

2012

  • Lecture
    Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2012) Matematikk i vår lærerutdanning 1-7. Møte om matematikk i lærerutdanningene i Kunnskapsdepartementet , Oslo 19.11.2012 - 19.11.2012
  • Academic lecture
    Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2012) Representasjoner i lærerstudenters undervisningsforklaringer. Undervisningskunnskap i matematikk - Etterutdanningskonferanse for lærerutdannere i matematikk , Sommarøya 24.09.2012 - 27.09.2012

2011

  • Lecture
    Botten, Geir Harald; Valenta, Anita. (2011) Å lage noe kulerundt fra noe som er flatt- om åpne opplegg i matematikk. Novemberkonferansen 2012 , Trondheim 30.11.2011 - 01.12.2011
  • Academic lecture
    Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2011) REASONING IN MATHEMATICS – HOW AND FOR WHOM? STUDENT TEACHER’S WORK ON MULTIPLICATION. NORMA 11 Nordic Conference on Mathematics Education , Reykjavik 11.05.2011 - 14.05.2022

2010

  • Academic lecture
    Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2010) Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching. ECER 2010, Education and Cultural Change , Helsinki 25.08.2010 - 27.08.2010

2009

  • Academic lecture
    Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2009) Utvikling av kreativ og robust matematikklærer-kompetanse. Den anden Nordiske Fagdidaktikkonference (NOFA 2) , Middelfart 13.05.2009 - 15.05.2009

2008

  • Poster
    Valenta, Anita; Enge, Ole. (2008) Inquiry i lærerutdanningen. Inquiry community applied in our consortium and inquiry into our own work , Trondheim 06.11.2008 - 07.11.2008
  • Academic lecture
    Enge, Ole; Valenta, Anita. (2008) En praksisnær undervising. Matematikkfaget i en lærerutdanning i endring , Oslo 22.09.2008 - 24.09.2008

25

  • Academic lecture
    Valenta, Anita. (25) Norske matematikklærerutdanneres forskning på relasjon mellom teori og praksis i lærerutdanningen – en systematisk litteraturgjennomgang. KLæM2025 , Hamar 15.09.2025 - 17.09.2025

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