Pietro Di Martino
Associate professor of Mathematics Education at the Department of Mathematics

Pietro Di Martino was born in Pisa in 1974. He graduated cum laude in Mathematics from the University of Pisa in 1998 and subsequently gained his Ph.D. in Mathematics (14th cycle) in Pisa. After a two-year research fellowship for a national project (FIRB), in 2005 he won the selection for a young researcher in Mathematics Education (three-year fellowship). He became a researcher in the field of Mathematics Education in 2008 and he has been an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics since 2016.

Institutional roles

Pietro Di Martino has been a member of the Italian Committee for the Teaching of Mathematics since 2012, and has been the principal representative in Mathematics for the University of Pisa of “Lauree Scientifiche” – a national project of the Ministry of Public Instruction aimed at promoting student interest and motivation towards science learning - since 2012. He has been a member of the scientific committee of national and regional projects for teacher training (Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo., Laboratori del Sapere Scientifico).
He has always been involved in teacher training both in-service and pre-service. In particular, he has participated in several pre-service teachers development programs over time: SISS, TFA, PAS both as a teacher and as the responsible for Mathematics.

Scientific and teaching activities

The teaching activities of Pietro Di Martino have been principally directed towards the teaching in different basic mathematics courses for Mathematics, Computer Science, Chemistry, Engineering, Biology; and in specialized courses of Mathematics Education for the Master’s degree in Mathematics. Within the field of Mathematics Education, his studies are primarily focused on beliefs and attitudes towards mathematics, their influence in the processes of teaching and learning and their role in the interpretation of mathematical difficulties. The theoretical studies on these themes are currently a reference point at international level.

Contacts

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