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AVILA, Alicia. Mathematics education in a pandemic: the effects of distance. Educ. mat. [online]. 2023, vol.35, n.1, pp.8-34.  Epub 01-Dez-2023. ISSN 2448-8089.  https://doi.org/10.24844/em3501.01.

Abstract: The effects that distance had on the teaching and learning of mathematics in Mexico during the almost 250 days of confinement due to the arrival of SARS-Cov2 are analyzed. From a virtual interview-based study the effects of distance in the teaching and learning processes of mathematics at the primary and secondary level are shown. Modifications in previously established didactic relationships and the strengthening of a normative teaching model, the exclusion of many mathematical contents and the simplification of the worked are identified. The emergence of the shadow-teacher and YouTube tutorials are also identified as co-responsible for the commitment to teach. The efforts of teachers and families deployed to carry out teaching and learning, as well as the assessments made by the actors of the processes experienced are also communicated in the writing. It is observed that a more extensive, timely and relevant teacher training would very likely have led students to “other mathematics”.

Palavras-chave : distance education; basic education; teaching and learning of mathematics; power of the media; Mexico.