Thesis defence: What’s the Problem with Illustrated Mathematical Word Problems?

Thesis defence

Date: Friday 19 December 2025

Time: 13.00 – 15.00

Location: G-salen, Svante Arrhenius väg 20 C, and Zoom (se link below)

Laura Caligari Moreira will defend her dissertation, which examines how illustrated mathematical word problems act and are understood in multilingual classrooms and in research. She investigates how these problems shape possibilities, constraints, and notions of learning and participation.

Laura Caligari Moreira. Photo: Private.

The title of Laura Caligari Moreira’s thesis defence is: What’s the Problem with Illustrated Mathematical Word Problems? Exploring Their Complexity Through Sociocultural and New Materialist Paradigms.

You can read more about her dissertation on DIVA:

What’s the Problem with Illustrated Mathematical Word Problems?: Exploring Their Complexity Through Sociocultural and New Materialist Paradigms

Included articles:

Paper I Norén, E., & Caligari, L. (2020). Practices in multilingual mathematics classrooms: Word problems. In Y. Liljekvist et al. (Eds), Sustainable Mathematics Education in a Digitalized World. Proceedings of MADIF 12 (pp. 61–70). Swedish Society for Research in Mathematics Education.

Paper II Caligari, L., Norén, E., & Valero, P. (2021). Multilingual students working with illustrated mathematical word problems as social praxis. In A. A. Essien & A. Msimanga (Eds.), Multilingual Education Yearbook 2021: Policy and Practice in STEM Multilingual Contexts (pp. 175–194). Springer.

Paper III Caligari, L., Norén, E., & Valero, P. (2024). Collaging illustrated mathematical word problems: Agential cuts in entangled mathematical knowledge production. Prometeica—Revista de Filosofía y Ciencias, 31, 336–346.

Opponent	Associate Professor Susan Gerofsky, The University of British Columbia
Chairman	Senior Lecturer Kicki Skog, Stockholm University
Examination Board	Associate Professor Steven Khan Brock University, docent Ulrika Ryan, Malmö University, professor Christina Hedman, Stockholm University, (alternate member is Senior Lecturer Anna Günter-Hanssen, Stockholm Univeristy).
Supervisors	Professor Paola Valero and Professor Eva Norén, Stockholm University.
PhD student	Laura Caligari Moreira

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