Educação financeira na matemática do ensino fundamental: uma análise da produção de significados

Abstract

The present research aims to investigate the students‟ meaning production on Financial Education tasks. The project is part of a proposal of inclusion of Financial Education as a transverse theme to the Elementary School Mathematics curriculum. The investigation characterizes by a qualitative approach and adopts as theoretical basis the Model of Semantic Fields as a possibility of students‟ meaning production analysis onto the proposed tasks. This research took place in a public school. Part of the investigation had as aiming the task production on the theme to be used in the 6th grade Elementary School classes. The educational product resulting from the study consisted in a text addressed to Mathematics teachers, showing the set of tasks used in field research and in a proposal of inclusion of Financial Education in the students‟ Mathematics education.