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Alexandre Cavalcante
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Latest funding
- $68,060
A Complex Approach to Time Value of Money in Middle School Math
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $62,628
Location Bias when Assessing Foreign Credentials in Hiring Decisions
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $57,151
Informal Financial Literacy: A Mathematizen Exhibition
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
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A Complex Approach to Time Value of Money in Middle School Math
Principal investigators: Cavalcante, Alexandre
Keywords: Financial numeracy; financial literacy; mathematics education; middle school mathematics
Location Bias when Assessing Foreign Credentials in Hiring Decisions
Principal investigators: Ng, Eddy S.
Keywords: Implicit Bias; Foreign Credentials; Hiring Decisions; Diversity Equity and Inclusion; Human Resource Management
Informal Financial Literacy: A Mathematizen Exhibition
Principal investigators: Cavalcante, Alexandre
Keywords: financial literacy; mathematics; informal exhibit; outreach
Décolonisation du droit du numérique dans l'espace OHADA
Principal investigators: Gautrais, Vincent G.
Keywords: Implants juridiques; Droit des technologies; OHADA; Normativités numériques
Assigning a value using money: an exploration of elementary school students' mathematical thinking
Principal investigators: Savard, Annie
Keywords: Mathematics Education; Money; Measurement; Value; Citizenship; Critical Thinking; Decision Making
Le télétravail transfrontalier confronté au régime des contrats internationaux de travail en droit international privé
Principal investigators: Chikoc Barreda, Naivi
Keywords: télétravail transfrontalier; contrats internationaux; conflit de lois; loi applicable; autorité compétente; normes minimales d'emploi; lieu habituel du travail; nomades numériques; territorialité; mobilité internationale
Enhancing and studying the Equilibrated Development Approach to algebraic thinking in primary grades
Principal investigators: Polotskaia, Elena
Keywords: relational thinking;algebraic thinking;teaching mathematics;primary school
Fostering Critical Financial Literacy with Black Youth
Principal investigators: Osibodu, Oyemolade
Keywords: Black youth; Mathematics education; Critical financial literacy; Financial education; Social justice; Financial education; Mathematics Curriculum; Mathematics Teaching; Secondary Mathematics
Epistemologies of Simple and Compound Interest in Middle and High School Mathematics: Curriculum and Teaching Practices
Principal investigators: CAVALCANTE, ALEXANDRE
Keywords: Financial Education; Simple and Compound Interest; Numeracy; Financial Literacy; Mathematics Curriculum; Mathematics Teaching; Secondary Mathematics
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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