Educação financeira no proeja: construção de conhecimento a partir de atividades no cotidiano do corpo discente

Abstract

The presente work has as its main objective to develop Financial Education with students in adult secondary education (Educação de Jovens e Adultos), using as tools the mathematical contents acquired in the classroom. By means of everyday activities, this group of students will be encouraged to understand and to take a stand concerning the appropriate handling of some proposed situations. In order to do so, they will rely on their life experience and on the core contents of their current school year/ grade. As a first step, the dissertation will present a brief retrospect of adult secondary education (EJA) and its insertion in Colégio Pedro II. At a latter stage, it will present an account of the activities that will be developed and connected to the essential mathematical contents in order to promote Financial Education with this group of students. To this end, basic knowledge in the subject such as fractions and percentage will be prioritized. At a latter stage, students knowledge will be enlarged to include depreciation systems. On the basis of this work connecting the contents of lessons with students experience, it is possible to create an application that provides present value for the payment of goods initially offered on an installment plan