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Over the course of almost two years, in 2020 and also in 2021, the Romanian educational system was constrained by the restrictions arising due to pandemic’s negative effects at the national level, to temporarily sustain the entire instructional process in the online environment, in the form of virtual or distance courses. Thus, mathematics teachers had to limit themselves to the use of existing real-time communication systems, which are not designed specifically for mathematics teaching, but for general use (e.g.: video-conference, virtual classes). The purpose of this study is to highlight the experience that both secondary school students and teachers had while holding mathematics classes in the virtual environment, thus marking the advantages and disadvantages of the used systems and software, compared to teaching in face-to-face settings. The data were collected by means of surveys and interviews applied to students and teachers respectively. The paper also includes proposals on how online educational systems for teaching mathematics should be designed, so that they resemble, as much as possible, the traditional teaching approach.
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Ion, TC., Popescu, E. (2023). Distance Mathematics Teaching During the Pandemic – Experiences from Secondary Schools in Romania. In: Milrad, M., et al. Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, 13th International Conference. MIS4TEL 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 764. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41226-4_19
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