Integrated member
Helena Rocha
Assistant Professor
Biographical Note
Research Interests
- Teachers’ knowledge and professional development
- Technology integration
- Theoretical frameworks related to technology integration
Relevant Publications
Sacristán, A., Faggiano, E., Santacruz-Rodríguez, M., & Rocha, H. (2024). Policies and implementations for technology use in mathematics education: perspectives from around the world. In B. Pepin, G. Gueudet, & J. Choppin (Eds.), Handbook of digital resources in mathematics education (pp. 1263-1305). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95060-6_52-1
Rocha, H. & Babo, A. (2024). Problem-solving and mathematical competence: a look to the relation during the study of Linear Programming. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 51, 1-14. Article 101461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2023.101461
Rocha, H. (2020). Using tasks to develop pre-service teachers’ knowledge for teaching mathematics with digital technology. ZDM Mathematics Education, 52(7), 1381-1396. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11858-020-01195-1
Rocha, H. (2020). Graphical representation of functions using technology: a window to teacher knowledge. Teaching Mathematics and its Applications, 39(2), 105-126. https://doi.org/10.1093/teamat/hrz011
Rocha, H. (2019). Mathematical proof: from mathematics to school mathematics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 377(2140), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2018.0045
Current PhD students
She supervises a group of PhD students on topics such as:
- Knowledge and teacher professional development
- Technology integration
- Interdisciplinarity
- STE(A)M
External collaborations
- Ana Isabel Sacristán (Center for Research and Advanced Studies, Mexico)
- Cristina Martins (Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal)
- Eleonora Faggiano (Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
- Floriano Viseu (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Gilles Aldon (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France)
- Jana Trgalová (Haute Ecole Pédagogique Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Marisol Santacruz-Rodríguez (Universidad del Valle, Colombia)
- Paul Drijvers (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
- Roberto Capone (Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
- Sónia Palha (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands)