A matemática financeira utilizando o software Excel

Abstract

This work shows the result of a research contends the story and execution of the monographic project on Financial Mathematics with support of Excel Software for the resolution of the calculations in this area of knowledge. It was applied in 2° year of High School in the morning period of the State School Genoveva Resende Carneiro and consists in a reflection on the education process learning where the assimilation of the content for the pupil is carried through in active way through several alternatives of the professor based on electronic spread sheets. Include the concept of Simple interests and Composites, Capitalization and Discountings, worked of interesting and pleasant form, aiming at to provide to the pupils an adequacy of the Financial Mathematics. Search to develop the diverse abilities of the mathematical knowledge logical with activities that awake the interest of the pupils, being had as objective to apply related mathematical knowledge to the daily one of the same ones so that they are capable to understand, to interpret and to decide pertinent situation-problems to its social conviviality beyond developing positive attitudes in relation to the Financial Mathematics. The gotten results show that the autonomy and the confidence in relation to the capacity to learn mathematics, over all to decide situation-problems related to the Financial Mathematics, using electronic spread sheets, had improved significantly in the observed pupils.