Perception of Teaching Mathematics During the Pandemic: Attitudes of Professors and Primary School Students in Serbia

Vasojević, Irena and Vasojević, Nena A. (2024) Perception of Teaching Mathematics During the Pandemic: Attitudes of Professors and Primary School Students in Serbia. In: Education Through the COVID-19 Pandemic. University of Belgrade - Faculty of Education, Belgrade, pp. 231-242. ISBN 978-86-7849-342-3

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Abstract

: The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on global social systems, including Serbia’s education system, has resulted in a health crisis. During the global pandemic in Serbia, teaching took place through a complete or partial online model, or a combined model of teaching. This paper presents the results of the study of opinions on teaching topics in mathematics, those that were found the easiest, and those that were found the most difficult, by students and professors, during the pandemic. A combined mix method was used to collect data, which included a population of primary school teachers, mathematics professors, and students from the territory of the Republic of Serbia. For the purpose of the research, three semi-structured questionnaires were constructed. The research was conducted in two phases. The first phase of the research was conducted in May 2021, where the survey method was used, and it included classroom teachers, mathematics professors, and students from 13 primary schools in the territory of the Republic of Serbia. The second phase of the research was conducted through the focus group research in March 2023 and included classroom teachers and mathematics professors from the same population. The results of the research showed that, during the implementation of mathematics classes in the time of the pandemic, students and professors found the easiest tasks in arithmetic, and the most difficult tasks with a theme from life in the field of geometry. The reason for this would be, according to classroom teachers and math teachers in primary schools, the limitations they encountered in the online space, related to didactic-methodical skills

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