Personal identification

Full name

Helena Cristina Oitavem Fonseca Rocha

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

EC19-5A72-8F61

ORCID iD

0000-0003-3865-7422

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2013 - Current	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020 - 2025	Membro integrado de Centro de Investigação - Full member of Research Center	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2025 - Current	iMath PALOP n/a	Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
2023 - Current	Professores de Matemática numa sociedade tecnológica - Mathematics teachers in a technologic society 2022.03892.PTDC Principal investigator	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2018 - 2022	Inovação Curricular e Sucesso em Matemática - Curricular Innovation and Success in Mathematics PTDC/CED-EDG/32422/2017 Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2016 - 2019	24.º problema de Hilbert - Hilbert's 24th problem PTDC/MHC-FIL/2583/2014], 2016-2019 Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2013 - 2015	A noção da demonstração matemática - The notion of mathematical proof PTDC/MHC-FIL/5363/2012 Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Publications

Book chapter

Sacristán, Ana Isabel; Faggiano, Eleonora; Santacruz-Rodríguez, Marisol; Rocha, Helena. "Policies and Implementations for Technology Integration in Mathematics Education: Perspectives from Around the World". In Handbook of Digital Resources in Mathematics Education, 1263-1305. Springer, 2024. Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-95060-6_52-1 Rocha, Helena. "Pre-service teachers' knowledge and the use of different technologies to teach Mathematics". In Perspectives and Trends in Education and Technology, 505-515. Springer, 2022. Published Rocha, Helena; Palha, Sónia 2317-77EF-F84B. "A tecnologia na formação inicial de professores de Matemática - um olhar sobre duas realidades [Technology in the initial training of mathematics teachers - a look at two realities]". In Formação de professores e tecnologias digitais, edited by A. Richit; H. Oliveira, 1-34. São Paulo, Brazil: LF Editorial, 2021. Published Faggiano, Eleonora (9213-6CB4-7897); Rocha, Helena; Sacristán, Ana Isabel; Santacruz-Rodríguez, Marisol. "Towards pragmatic theories to underpin the design of teacher professional development concerning technology use in school mathematics". In Mathematics Education in the Digital Age: Learning, Practice and Theory, 42-68. Routledge, 2021. Published Viseu, Floriano; Rocha, Helena. "Interdisciplinary technological approaches from a mathematics education point of view". In Science and mathematics education for 21st century citizens: challenges and ways forward, 209-229. Nova Iorque, United States: Nova Science Publishers, 2020. Published

Journal article

Botelho, M. C.; Coelho, T.; Rocha, H.. "The role of professional knowledge in teachers' responses to technological hiccups in mathematics and physics classrooms". School Sciences and Mathematics (2025): http://doi.org/10.1111/ssm.18369. Published • http://doi.org/10.1111/ssm.18369 Bernardi, M.; Capone, R.; Faggiano, E.; Rocha, Helena. "Generative AI in Mathematics Education: Pre-service Teachers’ knowledge and implications for their professional development". International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology (2025): https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2025.2490104. Published • https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2025.2490104 Teixeira, P.; Rocha, Helena; Martins, C.. "Challenges and potential in implementing STEAM in teachers' practices: a systematic review". International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology (2025): https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2025.2496701. Published • https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2025.2496701 Rocha, Helena. "Knowledge to teach Mathematics with technology: the Global Model". International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology (2025): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2025.2483488. Published • https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2025.2483488 Rocha, Helena; Viseu, Floriano; Matos, Sara. "Problem-solving in a real-life context: An approach during the learning of inequalities". European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education 12 1 (2024): 21-37. http://dx.doi.org/10.30935/scimath/13828. Published • http://dx.doi.org/10.30935/scimath/13828 Rocha, Helena; Babo, Ana. "Problem-solving and mathematical competence: a look to the relation during the study of Linear Programming". Thinking Skills and Creativity 51 (2024): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2023.101461. Published • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2023.101461 Botelho, M.; Rocha, Helena. "The professional knowledge of the teacher in mobilizing different representations with different technologies". RISTI – Iberian Journal of Information Systems and Technologies E71 (2024): 486-499. Published Coelho, T; Rocha, Helena. "Interdisciplinary professional knowledge: divergences and convergences of two models". RISTI – Iberian Journal of Information Systems and Technologies E71 (2024): 316-328. Published Rocha, Helena. "The impact of teachers' knowledge on the connection between technology supported exploration and mathematical proof". European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education 11 4 (2023): 635-649. http://dx.doi.org/10.30935/scimath/13285. Published • 10.30935/scimath/13285 Martins, Raquel; Viseu, Floriano; Rocha, Helena. "Functional Thinking: A Study with 10th-Grade Students". Education Sciences 13 4 (2023): 335. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci13040335. Published • 10.3390/educsci13040335 Rocha, Helena. "Analyzing teachers' knowledge based on their approach to the information provided by technology". European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education 11 1 (2023): 132-145. http://dx.doi.org/10.30935/scimath/12522. 10.30935/scimath/12522 Viseu, Floriano; Silva, André; Rocha, Helena; Mendes, Paula. "The graphical representation in the learning of functions by 10th grade students". Educación Matemática 34 1 (2022): 186-213. https://doi.org/10.24844/EM3401.07. Published • https://doi.org/10.24844/EM3401.07 Helena Rocha. "Contribution of the analysis of the mathematical concordance to understand the teachers' KTMT". Journal of Curriculum and Teaching 11 8 (2022): 412-422. https://doi.org/10.5430/jct.v11n8p412. Published • https://doi.org/10.5430/jct.v11n8p412 Floriano Viseu; Helena Rocha; José Monteiro. "Rethinking digital technology versus paper and pencil in the learning of 3D Geometry". Journal of Learning for Development 9 2 (2022): 267-278. https://doi.org/10.56059/jl4d.v9i2.645. Published • https://doi.org/10.56059/jl4d.v9i2.645 Rocha, Helena. "A utilização que os alunos fazem da calculadora gráfica nas aulas de Matemática". Quadrante XI 2 (2022): Published Rocha, Helena. "Conhecimento matemático para ensinar com tecnologia: episódios da prática de uma professora - Mathematical knowledge for teaching with technology: episodes of one teacher's practice". Educação Matemática Debate 5 11 (2021): 1-22. https://doi.org/10.46551/emd.e202125. Published • https://doi.org/10.46551/emd.e202125 Rocha, Helena. "Using tasks to develop pre-service teachers’ knowledge for teaching mathematics with digital technology". ZDM 52 7 (2020): 1381-1396. https://rdcu.be/b8FME. Published • 10.1007/s11858-020-01195-1 Rocha, Helena. "Graphical representation of functions using technology: a window to teacher knowledge". Teaching Mathematics and its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA 39 2 (2020): 105-126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/teamat/hrz011. Published • 10.1093/teamat/hrz011 Rocha, Helena. "Mathematical proof: from mathematics to school mathematics". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 377 2140 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2018.0045. Published • 10.1098/rsta.2018.0045 Viseu, Floriano; Rocha, Helena. "Percepções de professores de Matemática sobre o ensino de funções e sobre o uso de materiais tecnológicos - Perceptions of mathematics teachers on the functions teaching and the use of technological materials". Educação Matemática Pesquisa : Revista do Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Educação Matemática 20 2 (2018): 113-139. http://dx.doi.org/10.23925/1983-3156.2018v20i2p113-139. Published • 10.23925/1983-3156.2018v20i2p113-139 Viseu, Floriano; Campos, Sara; Fernandes, José António; Rocha, Helena. "The use of graphing calculator in the exploration of nonlinear continuous models – Uso da calculadora gráfica na exploração de modelos contínuos não lineares". Revemat: Revista Eletrônica de Educação Matemática 11 2 (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1981-1322.2016v11n2p79. Published • 10.5007/1981-1322.2016v11n2p79 Rocha, Helena. "Teacher's representational fluency in a context of technology use". Teaching Mathematics and its Applications 35 2 (2016): 53-64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/teamat/hrw005. Published • 10.1093/teamat/hrw005

Award

2021	Prémio de publicação científica CICS.NOVA 2021 - Scientific publication award CICS.NOVA 2021 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal