Riflessioni sull’insegnamento della matematica in seguito a una pandemia

We all lived a very difficult time: Italy, like many other Countries, enforced mass closures to stem the spread of pandemic. It is as if the time were suspended and in this suspended time the mass communication was “imbued with mathematics”: for this reason – as math educators – we have the opportunity to verify the idea of mathematical literacy and, eventually, to rethink the main goals of math education. “The end of education” is the title of a very famous book by Neil Postman (1996). The author clearly plays with the ambiguity of the term “end” in English: if we do not reflect about the purpose of education, education is doomed to fail.