Educação financeira: olhar sobre a prática do professor que ensina matemática nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental

Abstract

This qualitative research investigated the practice of financial education in the 3rd year of lower primary education. We chose the methods of action research in the sense that the investigative process of the pedagogical practice could help in the systematization and planning of the didactic activities developed in the course of the investigative process. For this, the didactic sequence was used as systematizing procedure of the unsympathetic process of financial education, which was already developed by the teacher before the continuous formation. The use of the didactic sequence facilitated the confrontation and/or the conciliation of the results of the sequence with the work that the subject teacher of the research was carrying out, considering two moments: a) the continued formation: project " Educação Financeira nos Anos Iniciais do Ensino Fundamental Financial " (Education in the Initial Years of Elementary Education) which happened in the school locus; b) the collaboration of the researcher teacher for the elaboration and execution of the didactic sequence. The activities designed to compose the sequence on financial education were based on the general competencies of the National Common Curricular Base such as empathy and cooperation, scientific, critical and creative thinking, research, focusing on content learning objectives such as the four operations mathematics; in everyday situations; in arguing to negotiate a product or to solve a problem. In the sense of integrally forming children, a citizen with competence to administer his money and with capacity to consume consciously, knowing the time to say no to the seductions of the advertisements. The experience with the research shows that the approach of financial education in the initial years of elementary education is justified, and financial education is a valid and fruitful debate in the classroom. The experience of the teacher investigated showed that the teacher who teaches mathematics already works in financial education, but for the practice of financial education to become more meaningful for the students, it is necessary for the teacher to undergo a literacy process in financial education, learning to study on the subject, also investigating the practice itself, in order to promote reflection in action.