Once the COVID-19 crisis is over, will everything” return to normal” or will we instead witness an ongoing boom in online learning? A time of crisis is an opportunity for all education systems to look to the future; there is enormous potential for digital technology in mathematics education, regardless of the impact of COVID-19. In this paper, the researcher focuses on answering two research questions: (1) Is COVID-19 the gateway for digital learning in mathematics education? (2) What type of digital technology is being used in mathematics education during the COVID-19 pandemic? The study also provided a discussion on the implications that such digital technologies could have on research into the field of mathematics education and practice in addition to suggestions for future research directions on this topic. Interviews were chosen as techniques for the purpose of this research, which were undertaken with hundred and twenty mathematics teachers from different secondary schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The researcher found that 98% of participants believed that COVID-19 is the gateway for digital learning in mathematics education. In addition, 97% claimed that the use of online education by schools had expanded greatly following the coronavirus outbreak. This has resulted in various forms of software being used to facilitate communicate between teachers and students included mobile technologies, touchscreens and pen tablets, digital library and designing learning objects in mathematics education, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in mathematics, and computer algebra systems (CAS) such as Mathematical, Maple, MuPAD, MathCAD, Derive and Maxima.

一旦 COVID-19 危机结束，一切都会“恢复正常”，还是我们会看到在线学习的持续繁荣？危机时刻是所有教育系统展望未来的机会；无论 COVID-19 的影响如何，数字技术在数学教育中都有巨大的潜力。在本文中，研究人员重点回答了两个研究问题：（1）COVID-19 是数学教育数字化学习的门户吗？(2) 在 COVID-19 大流行期间，数学教育中使用了哪种类型的数字技术？该研究还讨论了此类数字技术可能对数学教育和实践领域的研究产生的影响，并就该主题的未来研究方向提出了建议。访谈被选为这项研究的目的，采访来自沙特阿拉伯王国不同中学的 120 名数学教师。研究人员发现，98% 的参与者认为 COVID-19 是数学教育中数字学习的门户。此外，97% 的受访者表示，在冠状病毒爆发后，学校对在线教育的使用大幅增加。这导致使用各种形式的软件来促进师生之间的交流，包括移动技术、触摸屏和数位板、数字图书馆和数学教育中的学习对象设计、数学中的大规模开放在线课程 (MOOC) 和计算机代数系统(CAS)，例如 Mathematical、Maple、MuPAD、MathCAD、Derive 和 Maxima。