Svein Arne Sikko
Background and activities
Subject field
Mathematics education
Research group: Lesson design study & teaching resources
Teaching and supervision
Teaching the following courses 2021-2022:
- I have research sabbatical this academic year
Supervising the following master students:
PhD student supervision:
- Oduho George Ben Soforon (South-Sudan, NORHED-project)
- Gresa Pozhegu
Supervising students in praxis schools:
Academic projects and research
I am leader of the research group Lesson design study & teaching resources. Below you will find a list of projects I am/have been involved in recently.
Boards and committees
Representative in the Norwegian Mathematical Council.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database
2021
- (2021) Understanding student teachers’ mathematical knowledge for teaching geometry in a history of mathematics course. ICME 14 . East China Normal University; Shanghai. 2021-07-11 - 2021-07-18.
- (2021) From Researcher in Pure Mathematics to Primary School Mathematics Teacher Educator. The Learning and Development of Mathematics Teacher Educators – International Perspectives and Challenges.
2020
- (2020) Roles of Facilitators and Teachers in Models of Teacher Professional Learning. The Twenty-Fifth ICMI Study: Teachers of Mathematics Working and Learning in Collaborative Groups.
- (2020) Kritisk matematisk literacy i ein inquiry-basert kontekst på småskulesteget. Nordisk tidsskrift for utdanning og praksis. vol. 14 (1).
2019
- (2019) Interconnectedness and difference between action research and a lesson design study in Shanghai, China. Educational Action Research. vol. 27 (4).
- (2019) ‘Walking a Graph’: Developing Graph Sense Using Motion Sensor Technology. Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education. vol. 5 (3).
- (2019) Developing mathematical literacy in an inquiry-based setting working with play-coins in a second-grade classroom. Proceedings of the Eleventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education.
2018
- (2018) IBL og matematisk literacy på småskulesteget. LaUDiM-konferansen: Eleven i fokus – matematikk på barnetrinnet ; Trondheim. 2018-11-28 - 2018-11-29.
- (2018) IBL og matematisk literacy på småskulesteget. FoU i praksis 2018 ; Trondheim. 2018-10-24 - 2018-10-25.
2017
- (2017) An expert teacher's use of teaching with variation to support a junior mathematics teacher's professional learning. Teaching and learning mathematics through variation : Confucian heritage meets western theories.
- (2017) Measuring student teachers’ practices and beliefs about teaching mathematics using the Rasch model. International Journal of Research & Method in Education. vol. 40 (4).
- (2017) The association between engineering students’ self-reported mathematical identities and average grades in mathematics courses. Proceedings of the Tenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME 10).
- (2017) Gruppeteori. Et notat til bruk i undervisningen.
- (2017) ‘Walking a graph’ – primary school students’ experimental session on functions and graphs. Proceedings of the Tenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME 10).
- (2017) A Comparative Study on Formative Assessment and Technology in Mathematics and Science Classrooms Across Europe. ECER 2017 . European Educational Research Association; Copenhagen. 2017-08-22 - 2017-08-25.
- (2017) IBL og WoW i profesjonsutvikling for lærere innen realfag gjennom kaskademodell og leksjonsstudier. Forskning for et bedre samfunn. SU-fakultetets oppstartskonferanse . Fakultet for samfunns- og utdanningsvitenskap NTNU; Trondheim. 2017-03-16 - 2017-03-16.
2016
- (2016) Deliverable 5.2: Cross comparative analysis of case studies. 2016.
- (2016) Deliverable 5.3: Cross comparative analysis of country studies. 2016.
- (2016) Enhancing Teachers’ Professional Knowledge in Connecting the World of Work to Inquiry Based Science Teaching: Case of Norway. Conference proceedings. New perspectives in science education.
- (2016) Deliverable 9.1: Collection of "problems of the month". 2016.
- (2016) Measuring STEM students’ mathematical identities. Educational Studies in Mathematics. vol. 95 (2).
- (2016) Supporting or alienating students during their transition to Higher Education: Mathematically relevant trajectories in the contexts of England and Norway. International Journal of Educational Research. vol. 79.
- (2016) Fasmed case studies in Norway. FaSMEd International Conference . Maynooth University; Maynooth. 2016-11-01 - 2016-11-02.
- (2016) FaSMEed toolkit. FaSMEd. 2016.
- (2016) Brine. Mathematics and Science in Life: Inquiry Learning and the World of Work.
- (2016) Deliverable 9.2: Promotion of European Networks. 2016.
2015
- (2015) "Not to lose the chain in learning mathematics": Expert teaching with variation in Shanghai. Proceedings of the 39th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Volume 2.
- (2015) The transition from higher education to the world of work: Measuring student teachers’ beliefs and practices for purposeful sample selection. Proceedings of the Ninth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education.
- (2015) IBL-orienterte matematikkaktiviteter med tilknytning til arbeidslivet. Profesjonsutvikling i EU-prosjektet mascil. MNT-konferansen 2015 . Nasjonalt senter for realfagsrekruttering, UHR, NFmR, NRT; Bergen. 2015-03-18 - 2015-03-19.
- (2015) Ny matematikk. Undervisning uten fasitsvar. Uke-Adressa [Avis]. 2015-12-05.
2014
- (2014) Mathematics and Science Teachers' Use of Resources: What counts as a resource?. Educating the Educators. Conference on international approaches to scaling-up profesional development in maths and science education . mascil and DZLM; Essen. 2014-12-15 - 2014-12-16.
- (2014) An expert teacher’s local instruction theory underlying a lesson design study through school-based professional development. Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of PME 38 and PME-NA 36 (vol. 2).
- (2014) How a primary mathematics teacher in Shanghai improved her lessons on ‘angle measurement’. Proceedings of the 8th British Congress of Mathematics Education.
- (2014) Enhancing a teacher's fundamental interaction with the textbook through a school-based mathematics teacher research group activity in Shanghai. International Conference on Mathematics Textbook Research and Development (ICMT2014) . University of Southampton; Southampton. 2014-07-29 - 2014-07-31.
- (2014) Inquiry based learning in the classroom: Tasks and questions that encourage reflection and reasoning. Soong Ching Ling School Teacher Research Group Meeting . Soong Ching Ling School; Shanghai. 2014-03-20.
2013
- (2013) Mathematical Learning At Tertiary Level: Students’ Perceptions Of The Effectiveness Of Experienced Learning And Teaching Strategies. The European Conference on Educational Research 2013 . European Educational Research Association; Istanbul. 2013-09-10 - 2013-09-13.
- (2013) Inquiry based learning in mathematics teaching in Norway. Soong Ching-Ling School Teacher Event . Soong Ching Ling School; Shanghai. 2013-07-02 - 2013-07-02.
- (2013) Students' perceptions of how they learn best in higher education mathematics courses. Proceedings of the Eighth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education.
2012
- (2012) Working with teachers on inquiry based learning (IBL) and mathematics and science tasks. FoU i Praksis 2011. Rapport fra konferanse om praksisrettet FoU i lærerutdanning. Trondheim, 26. og 27. april 2011.
- (2012) Student educational experiences at transition from upper secondary to higher education mathematics. FoU i Praksis 2011. Rapport fra konferanse om praksisrettet FoU i lærerutdanning. Trondheim, 26. og 27. april 2011.
- (2012) Working with mathematics and science teachers on inquirybased learning (IBL) approaches : teacher beliefs. Acta Didactica Norge. vol. 6 (1).
- (2012) We like it, but we do not know how to do it! - Norwegian teachers' beliefs concerning IBL. The European Conference on Educational Research 2012 . European Educational Research Association; Cadiz. 2012-09-18 - 2012-09-21.
- (2012) Overgangen fra videregående skole til høyere utdanning i matematikk. FoU i praksis 2012 . DMMH, HiST,HiNT, NTNU; Trondheim. 2012-04-23 - 2012-04-24.
- (2012) Matematikk i forbrukerlære - en rapport om et forprosjekt som vurderer mulighetene for kompetanseoppbygging med vekt på matematikk innen forbrukerlære i grunnskole, videregående opplæring og høyere utdanning. 2012. ISBN 978-82-7877-215-7.
2011
- (2011) Working with Mathematics and Science Teachers on IBL Approaches: Teacher Concerns. The Visions Conference 2011 . Universitetet i Oslo; Oslo. 2011-05-18 - 2011-05-20.
2009
- (2009) Historiske trender i regneopplæringen i Norge. Å regne i alle fag.
- (2009) En lærerutdanners blikk på matematikkvansker i grunnskolen. Fou i praksis ; Høgskolen i Nord-Trøndelag, Levanger. 2009-04-23 - 2009-04-24.
2002
- (2002) Matematikk på nett : delrapport 1 fra matematikkfaget, IKT-støttet, desentralisert lærerutdanning. 2002.
2001
- (2001) IKT i allmennlærerutdanningen - noen erfaringer fra matematikk. HiSTs temadag "Høgskolepedagogikk - IKT og læring" ; Trondheim. 2001-05-14 - 2001-05-14.
2000
- (2000) Gruppeteori i lærerutdanninga : verksted. Geometri - mer enn passer og linjal. Konferanse arrangert av HiST ALT, Matematikkseksjonen ; Røros 25. - 28.september 2000.
1996
- (1996) Relative Global Dimension and Extension Subcategories. CMS Conference Proceedings Series. vol. 18.
1995
- (1995) Resolutions with nth syzygies. Communications in Algebra. vol. 23 (10).
- (1995) Coherent rings and homologically finite subcategories. Mathematica Scandinavica. vol. 77 (2).
1993
- (1993) Homologically finite subcategories and relative global dimension. 1993.
- (1993) Extensions of homologically finite subcategories. Archiv der Mathematik. vol. 60 (6).
- (1993) Relative homological dimension. CMS Conference Proceedings Series. vol. 14.
1990
- (1990) Algebraer med to simple modular og vilkårleg globaldimensjon. 1990.
- (1990) A family of algebras with two simple modules and arbitrary global dimension. 1990. Mathematics (9).