Matemática financeira: uma proposta de atividade aplicada para alunos na educação de jovens e adultos

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to address students of Youth and Adult Education (EJA), to present different teaching-learning methodologies of Financial Mathematics and to enable and privilege the participatory knowledge of students in search of new knowledge without disregarding the knowledge already acquired in their social environment. The construction of this knowledge begins with the resolution of common activities in their daily lives, problem solving, adding information technologies and interdisciplinarity to their knowledge. When addressing Financial Education to EJA students, we focused mainly on what refers to interest and percentages for short and long-term investments, such as buying and selling with application of interest. In this way, it was evident that Financial Education applied as disciplinary content allows students to choose the best offer or best term for investments or installments in their commercial or financial activities, thus avoiding family debt.