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Matemática financeira: um enfoque da resolução de problemas como metodologia de ensino e aprendizagem

2008; Linguagem: Inglês

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Paulo Henrique Herminio,

Business and Management Studies

This research is fruit of some inquiries on the Financial Mathematics taught at school and among which we highlighted: (1) Would the students like to acquire knowledge on Financial Mathematics? (2) How do the teachers approach that study theme? Which is the relevance of that work for the students in agreement with the educational vision? In the research that comes, we made an introductory study on the beginning of the commercial and financial relationships in our humanity and we tried to approach some aspects on the history of those relationships in our country. We analyzed the way as the text books of Mathematics brought and bring the content of Financial Mathematics in the context of the school Mathematics, as well as the teachers' opinion regarding that content. We created a Project of Teaching that was worked through the Methodology of Teaching-Learning Mathematics through the Problem Solving, returned for the work with students in a High School classroom, in a investigative and constructive form, on the concepts of Financial Mathematics. We looked for, through the application of that project in classroom, to treat of the social reflections that involve the concepts of Financial Mathematics. The Methodology of adopted research was the Methodology of Romberg.