Financial literacy programs taught in schools are exposed as value-ridden, flawed & totally inadequate

Sawatzki, C. May 18, 2020. Financial literacy programs taught in schools are exposed as value-ridden, flawed & totally inadequate. AARE EduResearch Matters. 

Tax and superannuation: Developing proportional reasoning

Sawatzki, C., & Zmood, S. (2020). Tax and superannuation: Developing proportional reasoning. Vinculum, 57(2), 11-13.

Facets of numeracy: Teaching, learning and practices

Geiger, V., Yasukawa, K., Bennison, A., Fielding Wells, J. & Sawatzki, C. (2020). Facets of numeracy: Teaching, learning and practices. In J. Way, C. Attard, J. Anderson, J. Bobis, H. McMaster, K. Cartwright (Eds.), Research in Mathematics Educatio …

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Financial literacy programs taught in schools are exposed as value-ridden, flawed & totally inadequate

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupts the very idea of financial literacy.

Discovering diverse students’ funds of knowledge related to finance: Pāsifika students in New Zealand

Hunter, J. & Sawatzki, C. (2019). Discovering diverse students’ funds of knowledge related to finance: Pāsifika students in New Zealand. Mathematics Education Research Journal.

Stimulating proportional reasoning through questions of finance and fairness

What could two people stand to gain from sharing a taxi ride? We aimed to explore the extent to which this challenging yet accessible financial context might stimulate students’ mathematical exploration of multiplicative thinking and proportional reasoning.

Developing financially literate children

This article from Carly Sawatzki and Peter Sullivan explores how an authentic real-life context can yield interesting mathematical problems that allow financial literacy tasks to be embedded in mathematics lessons.

Don’t trust banks to teach financial literacy to children. Here are some teacher insights

For generations, schools, teachers and parents around Australia have relied on the finance industry for money-related expertise and education for our children. We now know that our trust was misguided.