Integrated member

Helena Rocha

Assistant Professor

Biographical Note

Helena Rocha has a PhD in Education – Didactics of Mathematics and works at NOVA University of Lisbon (Portugal), being the coordinator of the master’s degree in Mathematics Teaching. She is known for her involvement in projects that explore how digital technologies can enhance teaching practices, currently acting as the principal investigator of the project TecTeachers. She has contributed to the research in the field through numerous publications and presentations at national and international conferences, being one of her most relevant contributions the development of the KTMT model – Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics with Technology. With a record track of supervising over 25 masters’ students, she is also supervising PhD students in Portugal and Italy. Besides this, she has an intense editorial activity, being the associate editor of journal Quadrante and a member of the editorial board of the journal Research in Mathematics Education.

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)

Alumni