The December issue of Educational Studies in Mathematics has just been published (volume 72, number 3), and it contains the following articles:

• Modes of reasoning in explanations in Australian eighth-grade mathematics textbooks, by Kaye Stacey and Jill Vincent
• Community college students’ views on learning mathematics in terms of their epistemological beliefs: a Q method study, by Denna L. Wheeler and Diane Montgomery
• Constructing mathematics in an interactive classroom context, by Paul Ngee-Kiong Lau, Parmjit Singh and Tee-Yong Hwa
• The effects of cooperative learning on preschoolers’ mathematics problem-solving ability, by Kamuran Tarim
• Students’ perceptions of institutional practices: the case of limits of functions in college level Calculus courses, by Nadia Hardy
• Mathématiques de la vie quotidienne au Burkina Faso: une analyse de la pratique sociale de comptage et de vente de mangues, by Kalifa Traoré and Nadine Bednarz
• The challenge of self-regulated learning in mathematics teachers’ professional training, by Bracha Kramarski and Tali Revach