O Ensino de Educação Financeira utilizando a metodologia de resolução de problemas

Abstract

In this dissertation, the Problem Solving Methodology is used as a tool to introduce high school students to the concepts and practices of Financial Mathematics, as well as of Financial Education. The choice of this strategy was due to the understanding that it can contribute in a more organic way to the processes that may lead to understanding, planning and executing the approach plan, the possible solution of a problem, as well as the posteriori interpretation of the solution found. As described in the text, this methodology, as a teaching proposal, strengthens the teacher as a mediating agent between knowledge and the student, rather than a solitary, knowledge-holder transmitter to a student who simply absorbs the content being transmitted. The application of the proposal consists of a didactic sequence of questionnaires, cartoons, short films, films and contextualized problems, with the aim of educating the student so that they can become an autonomous adult in decision-making in face of topic-related problems, as well as in the most varied situations of their daily lives. Scripts were created in order to provoke students to seek and make their own discoveries based on their previous knowledge. As an educational product, a blog and a Quick Instructional Manual were created as a possibility of support and suggestions to be used in the classroom by the teacher.