Educação financeira escolar: orçamento familiar

Abstract

The present work is aimed at investigating the meaning produced by students in Financial Education tasks involving problem-solving situations in the area of Household Budget. The project is part of a proposal to include Financial Education as one of the cross-curricular Maths topics in primary education. The investigation has a qualitative approach and is theoretically based on the Semantic Fields Model as a possible analysis of meaning production by the students for the proposed tasks. Fieldwork took place in a public school. Part of the investigation was aimed at producing tasks on the topic of Household Budget for use in primary school classrooms. The educational product resulting from the study was a text geared at Maths teachers, presenting a set of tasks used in the fieldwork as a proposal for including Financial Education in Maths teaching for primary school students.