Aspects of the Conception of Critical Mathematics Education in Didactic Material of Financial Education

Abstract

We recognize the need for Financial Education, but we ask how to reconcile its teaching - with the presupposition of the operation of capitalism and consumption - to a Critical Mathematical Education whose basic objective is the development of the student in an integral, critical and reflexive way? There is the prospect that the teaching of finance management should relate to a critical vision, concerned with society, inclusion and the ecosystem. Thus, we analyze a didactic activity delimited of a pedagogical material elaborated for the teaching of Financial Education. The material is available in public high schools in São Paulo and it is used as a support to the teaching of Mathematics in general. Results prompted discussions about the problem initially observed and revealed contradictions between the purposes of a Critical Mathematical Education and the characteristics and methods of the Financial Education activity. We conclude that there is a need to (re)discuss the objectives of Mathematics Education in the public school, even in undergraduate courses.