Learning mathematics in times of covid-19: a look at the perception of students of a higher education institution in Barranquilla-Colombia Aprendizaje de las matemáticas en tiempos del covid-19: Una mirada de la percepción de estudiantes de una Institución de Educación Superior en Barranquilla-Colombia

Abstract

The contingency caused by the COVID -19 virus, caused educational centers to be forced to change their teaching modalities; the main change was that students had to receive their classes from home, as well as teachers use technological mediations to carry out the teaching-learning process. In that order, the use of technological resources during classes became noticeable. For this reason, this research focused on characterizing the perceptions of students of a Higher Education Institution about the teaching and learning of mathematics in times of Covid-19 during the year 2020. The research was developed under a qualitative approach and a descriptive design, in which semi-structured interviews and questionnaires were applied to 84 students from a higher education institution of various cycles: technical, technologist and university of Engineering careers and who studied subjects such as: Statistics, Algebra and Trigonometry and Calculus in times of pandemic. The main finding was that the students perceived a good environment in learning the subjects, because their teachers used technological resources for teaching purposes. It was concluded that the technological knowledge and technological pedagogical knowledge of the teacher is key to the teaching of mathematics in times of pandemic, and that this affects the motivation with which students receive classes on a daily basis.