About the Journal

Focus and Scope

“La matematica e la sua didattica” is a scientific journal that hosts research contributions on the teaching, history, and epistemology of mathematics. It deals with mathematics declined in its various disciplines and hosts contributions related to the teaching/learning of mathematics in all school grades.

Both theoretical reflection and empirical studies, both qualitative and quantitative, are welcome, as long as they are based on scientific literature and on research methodologies in mathematics education, with contributions from related disciplines such as mathematics, pedagogy, psychology, sociology, epistemology, philosophy, general didactics, linguistics, semiotics, and neuroscience (to name a few).

The journal is aimed at the international panorama of researchers in the field of mathematics education and history of mathematics, accepting contributions from individual authors or groups of authors in three languages: English, Italian and Spanish.

History of the Journal

The journal "La matematica e la sua didattica" was founded in 1987 by Bruno D’Amore who was its first scientific director and editor in chief. At the time, the publisher was Armando of Rome and the journal was published in paper format (ISSN 1120-9968). In 1993 the journal was transferred to the publisher Pitagora from Bologna.

The journal suffered a block in its activity between 2009 and 2016, at which time the publication of two issues per year was restarted at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Bologna in digital format only.

Starting from 2024 the journal is published through the OJS system.

Section Policies

Editorial

This section usually collects a single editorial written by the editorial board in the case of ordinary issues or by a guest editor in the case of special issues.

Not accepting proposals / Not peer reviewed

Articles

This section hosts research articles in mathematics education, history, or epistemology that have passed the double-blind peer review process.

Accepting proposals / Peer reviewed

Reviews

Anyone can submit reviews of books, volumes, encyclopedias on the teaching, history, or epistemology of mathematics to the journal. The acceptance of these proposals is the responsibility of the editorial board.

Accepting proposals / Not peer reviewed

Peer Review Process

The journal applies a double-blind peer review process. Each research article submitted to the journal is sent to two external reviewers by the editorial board. Reviewers are identified by the editorial board itself among nationally and internationally renowned experts in the field of mathematics education, mathematics history, and mathematics epistemology depending on the topics addressed in the specific contribution.

Publication Frequency

Semiannual

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal for every reuse of the papers.

Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights.

Authors are welcome to post pre-submission versions, the original submitted version of the manuscript (preprint) and the final draft post-refereeing (postprint) on a personal website, a collaborative wiki, departmental website, social media websites, institutional repository or non-commercial subject-based repositories.
Self-archiving can happen only upon the acceptance of the submission.

Publication Fees

The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.

Ethics

"La matematica e la sua didattica" adopts the AlmaDL Journals Code of Ethics.

The code is inspired by the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in particular to the COPE Core Practices and its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

All parties involved in the editorial process, editorial staff members, authors, reviewers must know and apply the ethical principles of that document.

Data Policy

When relevant, authors are encouraged to follow Open Science and FAIR principles by publishing the research data associated to their articles in trusted data repositories, according to the international best practices and data management guidelines.

Detailed information is reported in the AlmaDL Journals Data Policy.

Authors who are affiliated to the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository.

Archiving Policy

As part of AlmaDL Journals, the Journal adopts a strategy to ensure long term preservation of the published content. Please see the archiving policy of the publishing service AlmaDL Journals.

Publisher

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Alma Diamond – open scholarly communication

Via Zamboni 33,
40126 - Bologna (Italy)

Ownership

Dipartimento di Matematica – MAT
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

P.zza di Porta S. Donato, 5
40126 - Bologna (Italy)