Francesco Beccuti
PhD, MSc, MA

My research interests concern socio-critical aspects involved in mathematics education and connected issues of in(ex)clusion, broadly understood. My empirical studies concentrated on the analysis of (mathematical and non-mathematical) reflections of university students in mathematics, while my more theoretical contributions focused on the analysis of policy documents impacting mathematical instruction internationally.

I am currently a tenure-track researcher in mathematics education and history of mathematics at the University of Trieste. You can message me at the address

francesco [dot] beccuti [at] units [dot] it
I also enjoy creative writing and drawing: I published a comic on the history of the Monty Hall problem. Check it out!

Selected contributions in international journals

Beccuti, F. (2025). Ideology and mathematics education: A rebound. For the Learning of Mathematics, 45(1), 14–19.

Beccuti, F. (2024). Gödel and Turing on mathematical intuition: Between Platonism and embodiment. Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal, 42.

Beccuti, F. (2024). Meaning and subjectivity in the PISA mathematics frameworks: A sociological approach. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 116(1), 49–65.

Beccuti, F., Valero, P., & Robutti, O. (2024). Stories of devoted university students: The mathematical experience as a form of ascesis. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 115(1), 51–67.

Beccuti, F. & Robutti O. (2022). Teaching mathematics in today's society: Didactic paradigms, narratives and citizenship. For the Learning of Mathematics, 42(2), 29–34.

Selected contributions in international conference proceedings

Valero, P. & Beccuti, F. (2024). Troubling the aims of mathematics education in the socio-ecological. In K. Le Roux et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 27th ICMI Study Conference (Mathematics Education and the Socio-Ecological) (pp. 140-147). ICMI.

Beccuti, F. (2023). Prospective university students in mathematics reflecting on uncertainty: Results and comparisons. In M. Ayalon et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 46th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 2, pp. 83–90). PME46.

Beccuti, F. & Robutti, O. (2022). University students reflecting on a problem involving uncertainty. What if the coin is not fair?. In J. Hodgen et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 12th Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (pp. 805–812). CERME12

Selected contributions in Italian

Beccuti, F. (2025). La tensione tra prove standardizzate e valutazione soggettiva: voci di due docenti a confronto. Didattica della Matematica: Dalle ricerche alle pratiche d'aula, 18 9–23.

Beccuti, F. (2018). La disgiunzione di Gödel. APHEX Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica, 18, 1–22.

Francesco Beccuti PhD, MSc, MA

Francesco Beccuti
PhD, MSc, MA