Since its outbreak in late December 2019, COVID-19 has wreaked havoc across the world and
like any critical sector, education has been hit hard. Students, schools, colleges and universities
have been deeply impacted. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organisation (UNESCO), over 800 million learners from around the world have been affected, 1
in 5 learners cannot attend school, 1 in 4 cannot attend higher education classes, and over 102
countries have ordered nationwide school closures while 11 have implemented localised school
closure. ( March 18 2020, Johannesburg, South Africa). In this pandemic most of the student has many
distraction that can cause to less their focus and attention to the lesson that teacher teach. Mathematics is a
subject that needs a lot of explanation and computation to solve a certain problem, student should focus on
every steps on how to calculate or to solve a problem, if there is any distraction that will cause them not to
listen they will affect the whole lesson and understanding. They will not solve the problem correctly if they
will not understand evey steps on to solve it.

“Governments and civil society concerted efforts that mobilise resources, and expertise to
address the impact of COVID-19 on education is urgently required. This process should include
developing long term strategies to address the needs of education in emergencies”
Grant Kasowanjete, GCE Global Coordinator. In terms of teaching strategy a lot of teachers is
now under pressure because this is the first time that they will experience of using online class
and they didn’t know what kind of approach they will apply to be more effective teachers.
Teaching in mathematics is hard and going harder because of this pandemic, using only a
virtual class they did not explain more information and they didn’t know if their student
understand mathematics. Now the student know different application that will make their life
easier by cheating and teachers did not know it. Student learned to be more independent to
survive in their subject and learn more techniques to collect data’s that has a connection to
mathematics.

“All GCE members around the world, INGOs, regional networks and national education
coalitions, stand in solidarity to those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. GCE reaffirms its
willingness to work in close collaboration with governments and world leaders to find
appropriate solutions and mitigating measures to ensure the right to education throughout
these challenging times.” (Refat Sabbah, GCE President). Pandemic is here and nothing will
change it but people can do their best to adopt it and make it positive to those student that
needs a quality education they deserve. Using the help of government and the people this will
make difference and create a better kind of people in the future and this experience will give
them motivation to study hard and continue to pursue their dreams using quality education.