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Andrea Maffia

Associate Professor

Department of Mathematics

Academic discipline: MATH-01/B Mathematics Education and History of Mathematics

Delegate of Department of Mathematics

Curriculum vitae

 

PhD in Mathematics Education, his research interests concerns mainly the learning arithmetic K-8 with particular attention to the semiotic aspects involved in this process.


Training
Graduated with honors in Mathematics in 2012 from the University of Florence, he obtained a PhD at the Department of Education and Human Sciences of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 2017.


In 2015 he obtained the qualification for teaching Mathematics and Science in lower secondary schools at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

Academic career
He collabroates with various national and international research groups in mathematics education.

From the academic year 2018/19 to 2021/22 he was a researcher at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Pavia. Previously he held courses as lecturer at the University of Bologna.


Membership in scientific societies
Since 2015 he has been a member of the Italian Association of Research in Mathematics Education.

Since 2015 he has been a member of ERME (European Society for Research in Mathematics Education) and between 2017 and 2021 he was elected member of the board of this association.

Since 2019 he has been a member of the Italian Mathematical Union (UMI).

Since 2023 he is co-leading, together with Prof. Bruno D'Amore, the "gruppo di Ricerca e Sperimentazione in Didattica e Divulgazione della Matematica" (group for research and experiments in mathematics education and communication) of the Department of Mathematics  of the University of Bologna.