Neusa Branco

Associate teacher of School of Education of Santarém Polytechnic University (ESE-UPSantarém). Integrated Member of CIAC-PLDIS UPSantarém.
PhD in Education, specialization in Didactics of Mathematics by the Education Instituto of the University of Lisbon. master's degree in Education, in the specialization in Didactics of Mathematics, from the Sciences Faculty of the University of Lisbon. Degree in Teaching of Mathematics, from the Sciences Faculty of the University of Lisbon.
Director of the Master in Teaching of the 1st cycle of basic education and Mathematics and Natural Sciences in the 2nd cycle of basic education (since 2022). Between 2013 and 2024 she was sub-director of the Master in Pre-school Education and Teaching of the 1st cycle of basic education. Since 2018 to 2022 she was President of the Technical-Scientific Council.
Projects in which participated: IMLNA project and P3M Project - Professional Practices of Mathematics Teachers with national support of FCT. Projects with ERASMUS + support ITELab Project, HanguingOUT Project, TAP- Teaching Sustainability. In 2022–2023, she was a member of the Working Group on Curriculum and Professional Development in Mathematics (DCPM), as part of the project ‘Context and Vision for the curriculum review of Essential Learning Outcomes in Mathematics’, organised
by the Portuguese DGE-ME.
Ongoing projects: ERGUES (Instituto Camões); SMARTIVERSE (ERASMUS+); DILIGENCE (ERASMUS+); TAP-DCE (ERASMUS+).

Teaching and learning of Algebra; Didactics of Mathematics; Initial teacher education; Integration of science and mathematics; STE(A)M Education, Mathematical connections and computational thinking.