Abstract:

During last year all universities all around the world had to switch to online teaching. It was a big challenge for teachers as well as students. This paper shows how we dealed with this situation and how we organized the on-line teaching and exams in a course of Mathematics during the winter semester 2020, when we taught online using MS Teams. In addition, we present the results of a comparative research of students of different courses of Mathematics during this period.

The research was conducted on two courses of mathematics at Prague University of Economics and Business. There were involved students of Mathematics for Informatics and Mathematics for Economists. These two courses differs in a number of hours of lessons. The syllabus is almos the same in both courses, but the course of Mathematics for Informatics (MFI) has two times more seminars than the course of Mathematics for Economists.

In both courses, during the first eight weeks of a semester students had to fulfil homeworks. They obtained one point for every correct solution. During the 9th week they had to pass the test. The aim of this paper was to determine whether students of different mathematics courses had different results. Lastly, we wondered if students of MFI would be more successful in homeworks as well as in the test.

We have made analysis of the mathematics knowledge, as well as the utilization of the new teaching methods. Some suggestions for online teaching and for future implementations was discussed as well.

Keywords:

Distance learning, mathematics, online teaching, test score, homeworks.