Editorial

Abstract

«We should learn to navigate on an ocean of uncertainties, sailing in and around archipelagos of certainty. We should teach strategic principles for dealing with chance, with what is unexpected and uncertain, as well as ways to adapt these strategies in response to continuing acquisition of new information. We cannot eliminate uncertainty, we have to negotiate with it». (Morin, 2015, p. 35)

The world of education is a complex and articulated world, especially when it deals with mathematics, where all the involved figures, teachers, researchers, students, pursue jointly the same common goal: to find paths, ways, methodologies, models, etc. to be effectively tested and validated. It is a world where attempts are daily made, and unfortunately not always successfully, but the real challenge, the real nourishment, is inherent in knowing how to learn to sail in a sea of uncertainty with perseverance and with the motivation to find “archipelagos of certainty”, from which to start again to undertake a new journey. Keep reading...