Bolema: Boletim de Educação Matemática
Brief Background
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BOLEMA – Bulletin of Mathematics Education is one of the oldest and most important publications in the area of Mathematics Education in Brazil. Mathematics Education, in short, seeks to provide answers to educational phenomena related to Mathematics. Intending to disseminate scientific production in Mathematics Education or related areas, BOLEMA publishes articles related to the teaching and learning of Mathematics and/or the role of Mathematics and Mathematics Education in society. It is linked to the Postgraduate Program in Mathematics Education (PPGEM) and the Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences (IGCE) of the Universidade Estadual Paulista – Unesp de Rio Claro – and is already considered an international journal, with an editorial board and consultants renowned, in the country and abroad, having been evaluated as a QUALIS A1 journal by CAPES. Created in 1985, BOLEMA was born from the initiative of a group of postgraduate students from PPGEM at Unesp in Rio Claro – the first postgraduate study center in this area in Latin America. The first two issues were circulated in 1985. From the year 2000, it maintained, without interruption, the biannual periodicity, and since 2008, meeting the community's demand, it became quarterly with submissions received in a continuous flow. From 2024 onwards, publication began in a continuous flow, aiming at greater agility in the dissemination of Brazilian research in Mathematics Education. |
Open Science Compliance
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BOLEMA is committed to Open Science communication practices, which establish ways of formatting, designing, managing, communicating, and evaluating research and its communication. Open Science aims at the transparency of processes and the availability of the components that underpin their communication, such as methods, data, and computer programs. In order to join the Open Science movement, BOLEMA operates in a continuous publication mode and accepts submissions of articles already linked in preprint repositories. Articles submitted for publication must be unpublished, in printed or electronic media, except those available in preprint repositories, and simultaneous submission for evaluation in another journal is not permitted. At the time of submission, the responsible author must complete and attach the Open Science Compliance Form (https://wp.scielo.org/wp-content/uploads/Formulario-de-Conformidade-Ciencia-Aberta.docx ), informing: (a) whether the manuscript is a preprint and, if so, its location; (b) whether data, program codes and other materials underlying the text of the manuscript are properly cited and referenced; and, (c) open options are accepted in the peer review process. The editors involved in the evaluation process are named in the published article. |
Ethics in Publication
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When submitting articles, the author must declare that all ethical guidelines regarding the integrity of scientific activities carried out during the research were respected, as well as inform funding sources, such as research agencies. If applicable, the author may declare that the ethical principles were submitted to and approved by the ethics committee of their institution. Compliance with good ethical practices in research is the exclusive responsibility of the author. BOLEMA is based on: the principles of SciELO's Codes of Ethics, present in the “Guideof Good Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publication ”; in the “Principles of Transparency and Good Practices in Academic Publications” recommended by the CommitteeonPublicationEthics (Committee on Publication Ethics [COPE]; in the principles of the Directoryof Open Access Journals (Directory of Open Access Journals [DOAJ]; and in the principles of Open Access ScholarlyPublishersAssociation [OASPA]. For research in a virtual environment, the CONEP document – National Research Ethics Commission – is used as a reference. For researchers abroad, consult an equivalent document or contact the executive editors. |
Focus and Scope
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BOLEMA's scope is to publish unpublished scientific articles based on research data and/or theories aimed at the analysis and understanding of educational phenomena related to Mathematics. In particular, BOLEMA does not publish experience reports or book reviews. |
Digital Preservation
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BOLEMA follows the standards defined in the SciELO's Digital Preservation Policy program. |
Indexing Sources
Bibliographic Journal Information
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Websites and Social Media
Preprints
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BOLEMA accepts the publication of preprint articles, which in addition to accelerating the communication of research results, allows the author to receive feedback on the work from readers and make any modifications he deems pertinent. Preprint is defined as a manuscript ready for submission to a journal and which is deposited on trusted preprint servers before or in parallel with submission to a journal. The use of the preprint is the author's option, and it is assumed that when submitting the article to the journal, through the Open Science Compliance Form, the name of the Preprint server and the Preprint DOI will be informed. Articles submitted to preprints share the originality of the publication with the journals and the evaluation process will not use the double anonymized procedure, as the authorship will become known. |
Peer Review Process
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BOLEMA's editorial policy defines the following criteria for evaluating submissions: compliance with formatting requirements; originality; thematic relevance; clarity and precision in delimiting the object; theoretical and methodological consistency of content; analytical rigor; current affairs; text quality; and adequacy to the editorial scope. The text can be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. The submitted works go through three phases of evaluation:
(1) the first consists of screening carried out by the Editors-in-Chief and Executive Directors, who examine the adequacy of the work to the scope of the journal and analyze its degree of similarity; The Editors-in-Chief's final decision on the submission will be supported by the recommendation of the Associate Editor and the reviewers, generally members of the BOLEMA Editorial Board, as well as by the author's implementation of the recommended adjustments, if this is the case. An article may be rejected in evaluation phases 1 and 2. If the article reaches the third phase of the evaluation process, it is up to the editors, after peer review, to recommend acceptance, rejection, or reformulation of the work. It is reiterated that the opinions of the Associate Editor and reviewers are advisory in nature. The result of the evaluation will be sent to the author and may include:
1) approval; “Approval with minor modifications” implies checking the modified material (final version) by the editor and/or, if necessary, by the reviewers responsible for the initial analysis. The indication of “new submission after major modifications” implies that, if the article is resubmitted, the beginning of a new evaluation process. During the evaluation process, for authors who opted for open evaluation, BOLEMA offers the Associate Editor the option of communicating directly with the corresponding author, whether or not their identities are open. BOLEMA publishes in the final version of the article the names of the editors involved in its evaluation process. The authors, after final approval of the article, must sign a term of commitment and assignment of rights, declaring:
(a) that the article refers to original, unpublished research, and In particular, BOLEMA does not consider dissertations and theses as previous publications and only accepts articles already presented at conferences or similar events if the version submitted to BOLEMA is significantly and demonstrably expanded, in theoretical and/or methodological terms, in relation to the version already available. , and this situation must be conveniently recorded in a footnote in the submitted original, and cases of submission under these terms must be explicitly communicated in advance to the editor. |
Open Data
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Valuing the consolidation of Open Science processes, if relevant to the evaluation of a submission, the author will be asked to share all content (data, program codes, and other materials) underlying the text of the manuscript, previously or at the time of publication. Exceptions are allowed in cases of legal and ethical issues. The objective is to facilitate the evaluation of the manuscript and, if approved, contribute to the preservation and reuse of data and information, as well as the replicability of research. For sharing, the author can use the repository of their institutions, as well as identify relevant and certified repositories: List of repositories for depositing SciELO research data. Alternatively, the author may state that the data will be made available upon direct request to the author or that all data are contained and discussed in the article. The repository where the data and information are located, if applicable, must be cited in the text in accordance with the Research Data Citation Guide, preferably in the methodological section, included in the list of references, and in the “Data Availability” section of Research”. |
Fees
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BOLEMA does not charge submission or publication fees, relying on funding from Unesp itself and agencies such as CAPES and CNPq, which may become unfeasible if these sources do not maintain their support. Authors who have approved articles will receive, in the decision communication for their article, the option to translate their text for bilingual publication. If you opt for these services, you will be charged a specific fee. |
Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy
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When submitting an article for publication in BOLEMA, the author must declare that all ethical guidelines regarding the integrity of scientific activities carried out during the research were respected, as well as inform funding sources, such as research agencies. If applicable, the author must declare that the ethical principles were submitted to and approved by the ethics committee of their institution. Compliance with good ethical practices in research is the exclusive responsibility of the author. All articles will be evaluated by taking into account social markers of difference, such as gender, sexual orientation, race, religious belief, and nationality, among others, as well as the authors' political positions. As for the authorship of the work, all authors who contributed to the conception, development, and analysis of the data presented are identified as authors. Therefore, it is the author's responsibility to identify and include all co-authors who effectively collaborated in writing the article. All authors must demonstrably accept responsibility for the content of the article accepted for publication. Before publishing the article and at the request of the Executive Board, authors must carry out a final review of their texts. If the author discovers that there was any type of relevant error after publishing the article, he or she must immediately inform the editors, so that the appropriate errata can be published. In the case of corrections caused by negligence on the part of the authors in the final review of their article, the authors will be charged operational fees for the production and publication of an errata. In relation to the identification of misconduct, consisting of the practices of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and republication of articles, as well as data falsification, BOLEMA uses the Turnitin software, which produces a similarity report associated with a percentage score, which varies from 0 % to 100%. All articles that exceed 25% similarity, including self-citation, will be analyzed by the Editors-in-Chief, who will request a position from the authors, if necessary. However, if there is a failure in the process of detecting misconduct and the article is published, the author becomes subject to editorial sanctions, such as retraction of plagiarized or already published scientific articles. BOLEMA is based on: the principles of SciELO's Codes of Ethics, present in the “ Guide of Good Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publication ”; in the “Principles of Transparency and Good Practices in Academic Publications” recommended by the CommitteeonPublicationEthics (Committee on Publication Ethics [COPE]; in the principles of the Directoryof Open Access Journals (Directory of Open Access Journals [DOAJ]; and in the principles of Open Access ScholarlyPublishersAssociation [OASPA]. For research in a virtual environment, the CONEP document – National Research Ethics Commission – is used as a reference. For researchers abroad, consult an equivalent document or contact the executive board. |
Policy on Conflict of Interest
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It is mandatory for authors to declare the existence or not of conflicts of interest, as the reliability of the peer review process and the credibility of published articles depend in part on how conflicts of interest are managed during writing, peer review, and decision-making. decision-making by editors. The conflict of interest may be of a personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial nature. Conflicts of interest may arise when authors, evaluators, or editors have interests that, apparent or not, may influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts. In this way, it is expected: Authors: When submitting a manuscript, they are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial or other conflicts that may have influenced their work. They must acknowledge all financial support for the work and other financial or personal connections in relation to the research. If authors consider that there is a potential conflict of interest, they must inform this in a signed document attached to the submission platform. For more information see: Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities and Conflicts of Interest. Reviewers: Must disclose to the editors any conflicts of interest that could influence their opinions of the manuscript, and must declare themselves unqualified to review specific manuscripts if they believe that doing so is appropriate. Editors: They must declare potential conflicts of interest in the evaluation of manuscripts, as well as act to prevent conflicts of interest involving authors and evaluators from compromising ethical standards in publication. |
Adoption of Similarity Software
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In relation to the identification of misconduct, consisting of the practices of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and republication of articles, as well as data falsification, BOLEMA uses the Turnitin software, which produces a similarity report associated with a percentage score, which varies from 0 % to 100%. All articles that exceed 25% similarity, including self-citation, will be analyzed by the Editors-in-Chief, who will request a position from the authors, if necessary. |
Adoption of Software Using Artificial Intelligence Resources
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The use of tools and resources that assist authors in preparing their manuscripts is recommended as long as attribution norms are respected and scientific ethics and integrity are upheld. Thus, authors have the right and freedom to use tools and resources also provided by Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, which assist in the preparation, writing, revision, and translation of their articles. However, only humans can be authors, according to the following norms and practices:
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Gender and Sex Issues
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All articles will be evaluated by taking into account social markers of difference, such as gender, sexual orientation, race, religious belief, and nationality, among others, as well as the authors' political positions. Manuscripts submitted to BOLEMA must comply with the principles of the Guideline on Sex and Gender Equity in Research (Sex andGenderEquity in Research - SAGER), which guide the reporting of information about sex and gender in study planning, data analysis and results and interpretation of findings. Per this guideline, the terms sex (biological attribute) and gender (shaped by social and cultural circumstances) must be used carefully in order to avoid confusion in their use. Furthermore, BOLEMA observes the gender equity policy in the formation of its editorial board. |
Ethics Committee
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When submitting an article for publication in BOLEMA, the author must declare that all ethical guidelines regarding the integrity of scientific activities carried out during the research were respected, as well as inform funding sources, such as research agencies. If applicable, the author must declare that the ethical principles were submitted to and approved by the ethics committee of their institution. Compliance with good ethical practices in research is the exclusive responsibility of the author. |
Copyright
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The authors of articles published by BOLEMA maintain the copyright of their works, licensing them under the Creative Commons CC-BY license, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited. |
Intellectual Property and Terms of Use
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BOLEMA content, except where otherwise specified, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. BOLEMA encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts, publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, and academic social media, as well as posting them on their personal social media, as long as the full citation is included in the journal website version. |
Sponsors and Promotion Agencies
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BOLEMA receives support from the following organizations:
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Chief Editors
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Honorary Editors
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Associate Editors
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Editorial board
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Editorial Production
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Executive Directors
Reviewers
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Ad hoc evaluators
ad hoc referees is published annually and is available at: |
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Authors should carefully read the About the Journal and Editorial Policy sections for important information about scope, languages, ethics, preprints, evaluation, fees, conflict of interest, copyright, among others. |
Specific instructions on article formatting
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Template: click here to download. 1. Article formatting/composition The text must be written in MS Word (.doc or .docx extension), in Portuguese, Spanish or English, with a maximum of 20 pages, meeting the following formatting and composition specifications: 1.1 Page layout: A4 size paper, with top and left margins measuring 3 cm and bottom and right margins measuring 2 cm. The original submitted must follow the structure specified below, including the order of presentation: 1.2 Title in Portuguese (main language): Times New Roman font, size 16, bold, 1.5 line spacing, centered. The initial words in the title must be written in capital letters (except prepositions, adverbs, conjunctions, etc.), and words after the use of a colon (:) must begin with a lowercase letter (except for proper nouns). 1.3 Title in English/Spanish (secondary language): Times New Roman font, size 14, bold, 1.5 line spacing, centered. The initial words in the title must be written in capital letters (except prepositions, adverbs, conjunctions, etc.), and words after the use of a colon (:) must begin with a lowercase letter (except for proper nouns). 1.4 Name(s) of the author(s): Times New Roman font, size 12, 1.5 line spacing, aligned to the right, only with bold citation surname. It is necessary to use upper/lower case letters and insert a footnote (obligatorily use *, **, ***, ... and so on), for each author, containing the following data (in this order):
1.5 Summary (main language): the word Summary must be written in Times New Roman font, size 12, in bold, using upper/lower case letters (as written in this sentence), with double and centered spacing. The article summary must be written in Times New Roman font, size 10, single spaced, justified, without paragraph indentation, containing 100 to 250 words. The summary must state, in a clear and synthetic way, the research problem, the methodological approach undertaken, the results and conclusions. 1.6 Keywords (main language): the expression Keywords must be written in Times New Roman font, size 10, in bold, using upper/lower case letters (as written in this sentence), with single and justified spacing. Up to five keywords can be used that clearly summarize the theme, content and methodology of the article. Keywords must be presented in Times New Roman font, size 10, single spaced and justified. The initials of words must be written in capital letters (except prepositions, adverbs, conjunctions, etc.) and separated by a period. 1.7 Abstract/Resumen (secondary language): the word Abstract/Resumen must be written in Times New Roman font, size 12, in bold, using upper/lower case letters (as written in this sentence), with double and centered spacing. The abstract/summary of the article must be prepared in English or Spanish (secondary language), following, as much as possible, the wording used in the Summary, and must be prepared in Times New Roman font, size 10, single spacing, justified, without paragraph indentation. 1.8 Keywords/Palabras clave (secondary language): the word Keywords/Palabras clave must be written in Times New Roman font, size 10, in bold, using upper/lower case letters (as written in this sentence), with single and justified spacing. Keywords are the English-language versions that are most appropriate and closest to keywords; must be presented in Times New Roman font, size 10, single spaced and justified. The initials of words must be written in capital letters (except prepositions, adverbs, conjunctions, etc.) and separated by a period. 2. Details about the body text The font of the body of the article must be Times New Roman, size 12, line spacing 1.5, with an indent of 1.25cm on the 1st line of the paragraphs. To highlight words/phrases in the text, only use the italic resource. We emphasize that, for dialogues, interviews, conversations, examples of exercises, and other instruments derived from the data collected, Bolema magazine uses the following formatting: Times New Roman font, size 11, italics, single line spacing and indentation of 1, 25. In parentheses, cite the source, in font 11. Example:
2.1 Section and subsection indication: must follow the current ABNT standards (NBR 10520: 2023). The titles of sections and subsections must be in Times New Roman font, size 12, in bold, without indentation, left aligned and numbered as indicated above. The spacing between subtitles and the text must be 1.5 lines, and separated from each other by double space. Only the initial of the subtitle must be written in capital letters (except for proper names).
2.2 Citations: must follow the current ABNT standards (NBR 10520: 2023).
2.2.2 Direct quotations with more than three lines: they must be highlighted with a 4 cm indentation from the left margin, single spacing, without quotation marks, Times New Roman font, size 10. Example:
2.2.3 Direct quotations with a maximum of three lines: they must be inserted in the body of the text, contained within double quotation marks (“ ”). Example: “In the first of these facets, we take into account the beliefs, and, in the second, the metacognitive processes of the mathematics teacher” (Godino et al., 2017, p.133). 2.3 Footnotes: must be synthetic and kept to a minimum. From the second page onwards, they must come to the end of the page, numbered in sequence, in Times New Roman font , size 10, justified alignment and single line spacing. On the first page, asterisks (*) must be used for footnotes.
2.4 Illustrations and Tables: must follow the current ABNT standards (NBR 10520: 2023).
Figure 1 - Title of figure 1 2.4.2 Tables: contain descriptive information, written in text form. All content on the board must follow the instructions: Times New Roman font size 10, single spacing. Example:
Table 3 - Humberto's justifications in the sum of the results of two data. Observations
2.5 Tables: must follow the IBGE (1993) tabular presentation standards. Table 1 - Distribution of heights of the 140 students from school
Source: prepared by the author 2.6 Note: tables, tables and equations must be in a format that can be edited. Images will not be accepted. 2.7 Acknowledgments: must comply with the same standards used for Sections and Subsections, left alignment, Times New Roman font, size 12, 1.5 spacing, but without numbering.
3 References: must follow the current ABNT standards (NBR10520: 2023).
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Example: 4 Attachments: must appear on a new page; the word Annex must follow the same orientation used in Sections and Subsections, left alignment, Times New Roman font, size 12, 1.5 spacing, but without numbering. |
Submission of manuscripts
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Articles must be submitted in AN ANONYMOUS VERSION through the ScholarOne Platform. There are six steps to submitting articles: STEP 1 - Type, Title and Summary; STEP 2 - File Upload; STEP 3 – Attributes; STEP 4 – Authors and Institutions; STEP 5 – Details and Comments; STEP 6 – Evaluate and Submit. The version of the article must be "anonymous", that is, without identifying the authors, for the evaluation procedures (It must be attached in "Step 2 - File Upload" of the ScholarOne Platform). The file name must also not mention the name of the author(s). Attention: To submit, it is important that all authors are registered with ORCID. ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating and maintaining a system where everyone who participates in research, scholarship and innovation is uniquely identified. This system provides an identification number for each researcher, avoiding ambiguities or similarities, and is also integrated with other databases and indexers. To learn more about ORCID, visit: http://orcid.org/content/initiative.
After approval
In this same message, the author will be offered to publish their text in a second language (in English, in the case of articles in Portuguese or Spanish; in Portuguese, in the case of articles in English) subject to coverage of the magazine's technical costs for carrying out the translation. |
Call for Papers for the Thematic Section “PPGEM 40 Years”
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The Postgraduate Program in Mathematics Education (PPGEM) at the Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) is one of the first postgraduate programs in Mathematics Education in Latin America. Its history began with its foundation in 1984 and, currently, it has a master's degree and a doctorate, both academic. In 2024, PPGEM will complete forty years of activities, and over these almost four decades, its numbers are remarkable, with almost four hundred master's degrees and three hundred doctorates completed. In 1985, the Mathematics Education Bulletin (BOLEMA) was born from the initiative of a group of PPGEM postgraduate students, with the publication of the first two issues, becoming one of the oldest and most important publications in the area of Mathematics Education in Brazil. BOLEMA, whose birth was linked to the PPGEM of Unesp in Rio Claro, has consolidated itself in the scenario of Brazilian scientific publications, having been evaluated as a national QUALIS A1 journal by CAPES. In this context of history, connection and affection between PPGEM and Revista, BOLEMA opens space to highlight the publication of research carried out by students, teachers and researchers who are part of the history of construction of PPGEM and, consequently, of BOLEMA, in the thematic section: “PPGEM 40 years”. The purpose of this thematic section is to present an overview of research related to Mathematics Education developed by (former) teachers, students and graduates of PPGEM. In addition to these three categories, submissions will be accepted from post-doctoral fellows and visiting professors certified by UNESP who have developed activities at PPGEM for at least six months, which must be explained in the submission form.
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Contact
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Unesp - Universidade Estadual Paulista |
