Possíveis contribuições de conteúdos de matemática financeira, no cotidiano dos estudantes, para sua formação cidadã: um estudo numa escola de educação básica

Abstract

Financial Mathematics is very present in our daily lives, whether it is when we make a purchase from a supermarket or electronics, or even in simpler situations such as the disc ount we receive when making a purchase with cash payment. These examples of financial applications are moved under the effect of interest and seeking to contribute to the improvement in the teaching and learning of Financial Mathematics, an activity was de veloped that contributed to an involvement around a contextualization with the student's reality, using as a methodological tool the Problem solving. The pedagogical project was developed in a Private School in Trindade, applied in a classroom with 7th gra de students, with the aim of analyzing students' knowledge of the basic concepts of Financial Mathematics and how it is related and affects our economy. To achieve this goal, current examples related to our daily life were proposed and I asked questions su ch as, for example, a car is being sold at 8% discount and its value is R $ 11,000.00. What is the price of the car after the discount? At the end of the work, the proposed methodology was considered of extreme importance, as there was a great interest on the part of the students in developing and solving the proposed activities, as they are relevant to their daily lives and which contributed to the formation of citizenship and better teacher / student interaction.