Minna Hannula-Sormunen
Professor
mimarha@utu.fi +358 29 450 3394 +358 50 337 8740 Assistentinkatu 5 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6106-2569 |
Areas of expertise
Early mathematical development and digital learning environments supporting it
Spontaneous focusing on numerosity (SFON) and quantitative relations (SFOR)
Mathematics learning and instruction at school age
Supporting mathematics teaching
Early mathematical development and digital learning environments supporting it
Spontaneous focusing on numerosity (SFON) and quantitative relations (SFOR)
Mathematics learning and instruction at school age
Supporting mathematics teaching
Research community or research topic
Research Group for Mathematics Teaching and Learning in University of Turku, Finland See for more information: https://sites.utu.fi/mathlearn/
Research Group for Mathematics Teaching and Learning in University of Turku, Finland See for more information: https://sites.utu.fi/mathlearn/
Publications 
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- Analyzing teachers’ scripts from teachers’ reflections after they tried to encourage students’ flexible mathematical thinking (2025)
- Frontline learning research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Asiantuntijuuden kehittyminen varhaiskasvatuksen lukuhetkien kysymys–vastaus-vuorovaikutuksessa (2025)
- Ammattikasvatuksen Aikakauskirja
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Does multiplication always make bigger? Exploring individual differences in NanoRoboMath game play (2025)
- Learning and Individual Differences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Attenuated processing of task‐irrelevant speech and other auditory stimuli: fMRI evidence from arithmetic tasks (2024)
- European Journal of Neuroscience
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Promoting 5th Grade Students’ Spontaneous Focusing on Quantitative Relations (2024)
- Journal of Experimental Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Spontaneous focusing on numerical order and numerical skills of 3-to 4-year-old children (2024)
- Educational Studies in Mathematics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Varhaiskasvatuksen työntekijöiden lukemisvuorovaikutusosaamisen kehittäminen: Luetaan jutustellen -interventio (2024)
- Kasvatus : Suomen kasvatustieteellinen aikakauskirja
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A game-based approach to promoting adaptive rational number knowledge (2023)
- Mathematical Thinking and Learning
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Age group differences in SFON tendency and arithmetical skills of four to seven year olds in four countries with different school starting ages (2023)
- Cognitive Development
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A systematic review of mindset interventions in mathematics classrooms: What works and what does not? (2023)
- Educational Research Review
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Joustava matemaattinen ajattelu kuuluu kaikille (2023)
- Erityiskasvatus
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Mathematical game performance as an indicator of deliberate practice (2023)
- International Journal of Serious Games
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Not realizing that you don't know: Fraction state anxiety is reduced by natural number bias (2023)
- British Journal of Educational Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - OPEN KULMAsta foorumi oman opetuksemme kehittämiselle (2023)
- Kas!-blogi
(E1 Popularised article) - Suosituksia monikielisten lasten varhaisten matemaattisten taitojen tukemiseen – Temaattinen synteesi (2023)
- Journal of Early Childhood Education Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Impact of the Use of the GeoGebra Dynamic Geometry Program on Students' Understanding of the Concept of Linear Functions (2023)
- International journal for technology in mathematics education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Characterizing Mathematics Anxiety and Its Relation to Performance in Routine and Adaptive Tasks (2022)
- Journal of Numerical Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Focusing on numerical order in preschool predicts mathematical achievement six years later (2022)
- Proceedings of the PME Conference
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Guiding Students’ Attention Towards Multiplicative Relations Around Them: A Classroom Intervention (2022)
- Journal of Numerical Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Kestävä ja uudistuva yhteiskunta (2022) Aarikka-Stenroos Leena, Blomberg A., Heikkinen A., Jokinen A., Kaipainen J., Kokko M., Kujala J., Leinonen H., Marjamaa M., Pohls E., Tapaninaho R., Sihvo-Matikainen L., Henttonen K., Lehtimäki H., Piispanen V.-V., Teerikangas S., Valkjärvi M., Mäkelä M., Onkila T., Harlin Ali, Kataja Kirsi, Sundqvist-Andberg Henna, Åkerman Maria, Bor Sanne, Hakala H., Snellman K., Hämäläinen S., Varho V., Viitala E.-J., Leinonen I., KSonck-Rautio Kirsi, Kauppi S., Jalonen K., Malho M., Alajärvi L., Miettinen M., Ahokas Ira, Hurmerinta L., Lamberg J., Silvonen E., Tapio P., Tuominen Anu, Hakkarainen K., Korhonen T., Lavonen K., Reinius H., Salmela-Aro K., Salo L., Vinni-Laakso J., Hannula-Sormunen M., Lehtinen E., Honkatukia P., Juusola H., Kallio J., Varsaluoma Jari, Ågren S., Mietola R., Suni A., Mustalahti I., Tokola N., Kokko S., Vasankari T., Paloniemi R., Upadyaya K.
(D4 Published development or research report or study )
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