Editorial

Abstract

Mathematics education is a constantly evolving discipline, and can now count on several studies, of varying scope, which over the decades have produced theories, constructs, methodologies, strategies, useful for analysing teaching-learning situations or to be applied in the classroom to make the learning experience meaningful and effective. This set of tools, both theoretical and pragmatic, is constantly being updated, and in the same way as a toolbox contains tools that are a little outdated, but reliable and indispensable, together with new tools that are more effective in dealing with situations of need. Therefore, our discipline makes use of tools from both the history of didactics and its most current developments. The fifteenth issue of the Didattica della matematica. Dalla ricerca alle pratiche d’aula journal presents some of the tools in the mathematics education toolbox in their usual double guise, theoretical and applicative, seeking to show that theories developed several decades ago are still indispensable for interpreting classroom phenomena, but also opening up to new constructs, new contexts, and new forms of communication. Keep reading...