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Cecilia Kilhamn

Educational Developer

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Telephone
+46 31-786 20 37
+46 766-18 20 37
Mail
cecilia.kilhamn@ped.gu.se
Visiting address
Vera sandbergs allé 8
41133 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 160
40530 Göteborg

About Cecilia Kilhamn

Research interests Cecilia Kilhamn works as a senior lecturer in teacher education and in-service teacher training at the Faculty of Education, Gothenburg University. Her main interest is Mathematics Education in primary and elementary school.

In her dissertation from 2011 she studied teaching and learning of the concept of negative numbers and student’s development of number sense, using a longitudinal research approach including both interviews and video observations. In the thesis the importance of mathematical language including the use of metaphors were particularly highlighted.

Between 2011 and 2014 Cecilia worked in an international research project concerning the teaching and learning of early algebra. The project was funded by Nordiska Samarbetsnämnden för Humanistisk och Samhällsvetenskaplig forskning (NOS-HS) and is a collaboration between research teams at Gothenburg University in Sweden; Åbo Academy in Vasa, Finland; University of Agder in Norge, and; University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). The project, VIDEOMAT, is a comparative video study with a specific focus on “the introduction of variables in expressions” in grades 6 and 7. A second research interest is the use of video recorded classroom instruction in teacher education and professional development.

In 2015 a teacher development project called ROMB was initiated by Cecilia and other colleagues at the department of pedagogical , curricular and professional studies. The aim of the project is to investigate how ideas and teaching materials developed by colleagues in America and at the Freudenthal institute in the Netherlands can be adopted in Swedish classrooms and in what ways they are aligned with or challenge the social and sociomathematical norms in these classrooms.

Current research activities

From 2019 Cecilia is, together with prof Kajsa Bråting at Uppsala University, running a project about the introduction of programming in mathematics and the integration of algebraic thinking and computational thinking.

Keywords didactics of mathematics, abstract, algebra, negative numbers, concepts, whole numbers, computational thin king