Francesco Beccuti
PhD, MSc, MA

After a secondary education focusing on classical languages and history, I completed a bachelor's degree in mathematics at the University of Turin and a master's degree in mathematical logic at the University of Oxford. I then obtained a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Triest and finally a doctorate in mathematics education back in Turin supervised by Ornella Robutti (and co-supervised at Stockholm University by Paola Valero).

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. In the long run, I am working to integrate both these directions of research in a comprehensive sociological account of the functioning of mathematics education in schools and universities.

I am currently a full-time researcher in mathematics education at the University of Cagliari in the beautiful island of Sardinia. You can contact me at

francesco [dot] beccuti [at] unica [dot] it

I also enjoy creative writing and drawing. I recently published a comic on the history of the Monty Hall problem. Check it out!

Selected contributions in international journals

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

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. (2024). The Monty Brawl and other unexpected consequences of mathematical instruction. The Mathematics Enthusiast 21(1), 377–404.

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. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh ICMI Study: Mathematics Education and the Socio-Ecological (accepted).

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

Beccuti, F. (2022). A tale of four cities: reflections of master's students in mathematics on a visual word problem. In M. Trigueros et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the International Network for Didactic Research in University Mathematics (pp. 262–272). INDRUM2022.

Selected contributions in Italian

Beccuti, F. (2025). L'ambivalenza delle prove standardizzate di matematica nelle voci dei docenti. Didattica della Matematica: Dalle ricerche alle pratiche d'aula (accepted).

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

Teachings - Insegnamenti

Metodologie e tecnologie didattiche per l'insegnamento della matematica (2024/2025). Università di Cagliari.

Didattica della matematica (2024/2025). Università di Cagliari (with H. Freytes).

Le conseguenze filosofiche dei teoremi d'incompletezza (2024/2025). Università di Cagliari (corso dottorale).

Comparative research in mathematics education, (2023/2024). Stockholm University (with H. Van Steenbrugge, doctoral course).

Laboratorio: Codici del linguaggio logico e matematico (2023/2024). Università di Milano.

Metodologie e tecnologie didattiche per l'insegnamento della matematica (2023/2024). Università di Cagliari (with M. Polo).

Laboratorio: Codici del linguaggio logico e matematico (2022/2023). Università di Milano.

Francesco Beccuti PhD, MSc, MA

Francesco Beccuti
PhD, MSc, MA