Projects

iMath PALOP (1/4/2025 – ongoing)

May 6, 2025

Focusing on mathematics teachers’ professional development, giving attention to resources, methodologies and classroom innovation and their relation to teachers’ professional knowledge.

Enrolled countries: Portugal, Moçambique, Cabo Verde, Guiné Bissau, Angola, São Tomé e Príncipe

Portuguese team: António Domingos, Alexandra Rodrigues, Nélia Amado, Helena Rocha, Paula Teixeira, Susana Carreira

Founded by: Fundação Caloustre Gulbenkian

Digital Resources in Mathematics Education - Policies and implementations for technology use in mathematics education (1/10/2021 – 1/7/2024)

May 6, 2025

Studies the role of policies and other factors affecting digital technology (DT) integration in mathematics education, based on a cross-national analysis of the impact of DT implementation in countries from Europe and South America.

Main results:

Tech4Math-Math4STEM (1/1/2024 – ongoing)

May 6, 2025

A contribution to the development of knowledge and related concrete consequences concerning teachers’ professional development on the use of new technologies to promote 21st century citizens’ learning of mathematics and STEM disciplines and development of cross skills.

Coordinator: Eleonora Faggiano

Team: Roberto Capone, Helena Rocha, Maria Lucia Bernardi

University of Bari

Transforming Mathematics Teachers’ Professional Development: Innovations and Challenges with Digital Technologies (3/9/2024 – ongoing)

May 6, 2025

A contribution to theory development, combining two frameworks to better understand teachers’ professional development in relation to the integration of emerging technologies.

Coordinator: Osama Swidan (Israel)

Team: Helena Rocha (Portugal), Anna Wan (USA), Camilla Spagnolo (Italy), Ismael Almahdi (Israel), Cristina Costa (Portugal)

ERME - European Society for Research in Mathematics Education

The impact of Generative AI on theoretical frameworks in mathematics education research (3/9/2024 – ongoing)

May 6, 2025

Exploring implications of the use of GAI on the role of mathematics teachers, and on the knowledge and competencies that would empower them to take profit from and to face challenges with GAI use.

Coordinator: Helena Rocha (Portugal)

Team: Eleonora Faggiano (Italy), Sébastien Jolivet (Switzerland), Sebastian Rezat (Germany), Osama Swidan (Israel), Jana Trgalová (Switzerland)

ERME - European Society for Research in Mathematics Education

TecTeachers - Teachers' knowledge to teach with digital technology (1/3/2023 – ongoing)

July 31, 2022

With a focus on teachers’ knowledge and technology integration, investigating and deepening the characteristics of knowledge that a teacher needs to teach with technology and looking for bridges and interrelationships between models and conceptualizations, to develop a theoretical framework that articulates the work already carried out and the different existing conceptualizations.

Coordinator: Helena Rocha

Team: Eleonora Faggiano, Floriano Viseu, Maria do Carmo Botelho, Tânia Coelho, Joana Mendonça (since September 2024), Francisca Ferreira, (since September 2024)