Changing Mathematics Education Practice: a Systematic Review of Mathematics Education Implementation Research in the Nordic Countries

This review paper systematically examines implementation research studies reported in the journals of the Nordic countries focusing on mathematics education innovations implemented in Nordic countries over the past three decades. We aimed to identify the types of innovations reported, the objectives of the research and the scale of the projects. Our review categorized the innovations into four types: new teaching methods, new tools, new learning methods, and curriculum reforms and textbook innovations. The most frequently reported innovation was implementing new teaching methods. Our findings reveal that the majority of papers are to be found in NOMAD and SJER , and that studies reported here focus on small implementation research projects, either as parts of larger initiatives or as standalone experiments. One observation is, however, many reports lack details on the intentions or challenges of scaling up these projects. The impact sheet to this article can be accessed at 10.6084/m9.figshare.27153099.