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Front. Educ.
Sec. STEM Education
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1488832
This article is part of the Research Topic Psychoeducational Approaches to Mental Health for Educators and Students View all 12 articles

Approach to the anxiety and coping perceived of mathematics during the pandemic in higher level students in an environment rich in symbols

Provisionally accepted
Enrique López-Ramírez Enrique López-Ramírez 1*Nahina Dehesa De Gyves Nahina Dehesa De Gyves 2Brenda García-Jarquín Brenda García-Jarquín 3Carlos Francisco Varapizuela-Sánchez Carlos Francisco Varapizuela-Sánchez 1IVAN ANTONIO GARCIA-MONTALVO IVAN ANTONIO GARCIA-MONTALVO 1
  • 1 Instituto Tecnológico de Oaxaca, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico
  • 2 Technological Institute of the Isthmus, Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, Mexico
  • 3 Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City, México, Mexico

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    Although the curricula recognize the attitudinal component as a crucial competence for students to develop, the reality is that the integration of this objective with the extensive conceptual content that must be covered needs to be emphasized even more. If this integration is neglected, it may lead to anxiety during the learning process. In the present study, we conducted semi-structured interviews with students to explore their motivations for studying mathematics and the various strategies they employed to cope during the pandemic. These interviews not only revealed the complexity of this integration but also highlighted a context that could be linked to the specific social environment in which the students are immersed.

    Keywords: Anxiety, coping, pandemic, symbols, Motivation

    Received: 30 Aug 2024; Accepted: 06 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 López-Ramírez, Dehesa De Gyves, García-Jarquín, Varapizuela-Sánchez and GARCIA-MONTALVO. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Enrique López-Ramírez, Instituto Tecnológico de Oaxaca, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico

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