Produção e implementação de um simulador financeiro como aporte a tarefas destinadas ao ensino de educação financeira escolar

Abstract

The present search in Financial Education and Mathematics Education has as objective to elaborate a Financial Simulator to used as technological support to the Financial Education. As result of the trajectory of this project, presented as an Education product of this work was substantiated on prototyping strategies and software testing methodology, as result in the production of a Financial Simulator from a programming language . As intention to evaluate the potential of this Simulator, was done the implementation of this product in the field, with the purpose of amazing the production of meanings of a group of students of the 1st year of high school in a public school in Minas Gerais, When they propose to use this technology. In this sense we chose to develop a set of tasks for Financial education , assuming the conceptions for the construction of the same proposals by Campos (2012). These were also constructed with the objective in discussions about the theme "the relation between money and time", which was suggested in the curriculum proposal of School Financial Education produced by Silva and Powell (2013). The search has a qualitative approach of investigation and is supported by Bogdan and Biklen (2013) and oriented by the ethodology of Design Experiment, which has both a pragmatic and theoretical character and all iterative. The reading of the production of meanings of research participants is done from the theoretical references of the Model of Semantic Fields, proposed by Romulo Campos Lins.