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How quickly people recover financially from the COVID-19 crisis,or lose the gains they made, may depend on their level of financial literacy. (Shutterstock)

April 12, 2021

Especially after COVID‑19, Canadians need better financial literacy and teachers can help

Gail Henderson, Queen's University, Ontario and Pamela Beach, Queen's University, Ontario

Teaching financial literacy requires more than adding financial literacy to kids’ school curriculum. It also means offering teachers professional development to ensure they’re equipped.

Ontario’s new financial literacy curriculum covers financial literacy, including budget-making, credit cards and compound interest. (Shutterstock)

November 26, 2020

6 changes in Ontario’s not‑so‑basic new elementary math curriculum

Priscila Correa, University of Windsor

Ontario’s new math curriculum was written by competent mathematicians relying on the latest research, and includes both coding and social-emotional learning.

What does it mean for students if they are learning that technology can answer every challenge? (Shutterstock)

January 26, 2020

A math teacher’s plea: Let’s keep pi irrational

Veselin Jungic, Simon Fraser University

Technology in the math classroom should enhance and extend, rather than replace, how to think mathematically.

Why don’t students say math is imaginative? Here, the White Rabbit character originally from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written under mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s pen name, Lewis Carroll. (Shutterstock)

July 17, 2019

Mathematics is about wonder, creativity and fun, so let’s teach it that way

Peter Taylor, Queen's University, Ontario

Mathematician Peter Taylor taught high school math to prepare to develop a new ‘RabbitMath’ curriculum that emphasizes collaborative creativity and learning to work with complex systems.

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