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Making Sense of Mathematics: Two Case Studies of Financial Numeracy in Grade 11 Mathematics Classrooms

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Financial Numeracy in Mathematics Education

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This chapter describes two situations or lessons, created by teachers participating in this research project, that show two ways of incorporating financial numeracy in mathematics classrooms. The first was conducted with students from an English-speaking school in Montreal. The students were enrolled in the science stream for mathematics (SN), therefore they did not have financial mathematics in their curriculum. The second lesson was recorded with French-speaking students from the cultural, social and technical stream (CST). These students have financial mathematics as part of their curriculum, and it was within this framework that the teacher situated his lesson.

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  1. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Alexandre Cavalcante

  2. Department of Integrated Studies in Education, Faculty of Education, McGill University, 3700, McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Annie Savard

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  1. Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Annie Savard

  2. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Alexandre Cavalcante

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Cavalcante, A., Savard, A. (2021). Making Sense of Mathematics: Two Case Studies of Financial Numeracy in Grade 11 Mathematics Classrooms. In: Savard, A., Cavalcante, A. (eds) Financial Numeracy in Mathematics Education. Mathematics Education in the Digital Era, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73588-3_9

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