Maria Helena Martinho is Assistant Professor at the Education Institute of the University of Minho, and a senior researcher at CIEd, the corresponding Education Research Center, of which she was Deputy director from 2010 to 2012.
She is the President of Sociedade Portuguesa de Investigação em Educação Matemática (SPIEM).
From June 2019 to February 2023 she was Director of Revista Portuguesa de Educação, serving currently as its Vice Director. She also belongs to the Editorial Board of Quadrante (Journal of Research in Mathematical Education).
Maria Helena Martinho holds a PhD in Didactics of Mathematics from the University of Lisbon (2007). Her thesis on “Communication in the Mathematics classroom: A collaborative project with three teachers of Basic Education” is among the initial research works in this area in Portugal and inspired further developments. Her main research interests include mathematical communication, mathematical literacy, mathematical reasoning, mathematics’ argument, teachers' practices, and collaborative work.
From 2014 to 2015 she coordinated a FCT-funded project on “Content area literacies: Features and challenges for more engagement and learning” (EXPL/MHC-CED/0645/2013). She was part of several other national and international research projects, including the EU-funded BaCuLit project (LLP-2010-DECOMENIUS-CMP) on “Basic Curriculum for Teachers' In-service Training in Content Area Literacy in Secondary Schools”, and a bilateral cooperation with Brazil supported by CAPES.
Besides her academic research work, she collaborates regularly with Governments and international partnerships on innovating educational practices in Mathematics, in Portugal, East Timor and Guinea-Bissau.
I regard my research as a contribution to a more effective, inclusive and challenging way of teaching Mathematics, in partnership with teachers, based on the concreteness of their experiences in schools. It spans different topics in a clearly defined domain of Mathematics Education: communication and its interaction with teaching-learning processes in mathematics, with a privileged center on the teachers’ perspective. I expect it to have concrete implications for teachers’ training and the quality of professional practices in Education.
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