Tangram (Sep 2020)

The discipline of Financial Mathematics in the curricular matrices of undergraduate courses in Mathematics in Brazil

  • Regimar Alves Ferreira,
  • Luciano Duarte da Silva,
  • Márcio Urel Rodrigues,
  • Nilton Cezar Ferreira

DOI
https://doi.org/10.30612/tangram.v3i3.11509
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 3
pp. 85 – 109

Abstract

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In this research, we aim to understand how the discipline of Financial Mathematics is structured in the Pedagogical Projects of Courses (PPCs) of undergraduate courses in Mathematics and suitable for the future practice of the teacher. Weadopted as methodology, a qualitative approach of the documental type, whose corpus was constituted by 182 PPCs of courses, of all the geographic regions of Brazil. Data analysis was performed through Content Analysis, which made it possible to establish two categories of analysis. Discussing the categories, we highlight the need for mathematics degrees to take on the responsibility of training qualified teachers, contemplating knowledge associated with the development of the basic school education process. We hope that this study can contribute to the debate on the curriculum of initial teacher education and that it transcends teaching, which is purely technical, which overvalues teaching froma transmissive perspective of concepts to the detriment of the construction of scientific knowledge.

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