Editorial

Abstract

The journal Didattica della matematica. Dalla ricerca alle pratiche d’aula has come with satisfaction to its fourth issue, the last one related to the year 2018. Strengthened by the excellent results obtained in terms of downloading (almost 12000 users have downloaded the previous issues of the journal), the structure remains focused on the mutual relationship between research and didactic practices.

In the landscape of scientific research, mathematics education is relatively young as a discipline. Born in the field of mathematics, as mathematics applied to learning issues, it has received, since the 80’s of the last century, extensive stimuli from different cultural domains. Numerous causes for reflection have come and continue to come for instance from philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, sociology and semiotics. Keep reading...