A matemática financeira trabalhada na EJA e a repercussão na vida dos alunos

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the experience of the students of youth and adult education (EJA) in the state school Coronel Justino Cavalcante Barros, in relation to financial education and its implication in their lives. Specific objectives consist of; to raise students' learning difficulties in relation to mathematical contents linked to financial education, and to analyze if students recognize the importance of financial education in everyday life. The research carried out with the public of twenty students, being ten of the eighth year of elementary school and ten students of the third year of high school. Research based on the theoretical principles of Gustavo Cerbrasi, which teaches the means of managing the personal life of each individual. The results obtained reflect the need for information on the part of this public, regarding the need to organize their financial life better. The education acquired in school is very limited to mathematical calculations and does not make a better dialogue with the daily life, mainly because they stop in theoretical and abstract examples. Financial mathematics takes a better understanding of how the use of money works, leading when consciously taught to a financial education