Educação financeira e educação estatística: inflação como tema de ensino e aprendizagem

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the meanings production of high school students regarding the concept of inflation and their interpretations in the resolution of tasks involving statistical thinking applied to real data about inflation. This research was developed in the Postgraduate Program in Mathematical Education of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. The topic addressed in the research to contextualize teaching and learning activities is price inflation, aiming to broaden ideas of Financial Education through statistical thinking. This subject exists in the daily life of the population as represented by secondary school students from a state school in the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, so that they could position themselves critically on issues that are part of the context of society in the which they are inserted. The research is characterized as qualitative and adopts as theoretical basis the Semantic Fields Model and theoretical aspects of Statistical Education. The set of tasks used in the field research are part of the Educational Product, which is directed so that high school teachers can use it in the classroom.