Ensino de matemática financeira : a importância do uso do aplicativo organiza finanças

Abstract

Nowadays there is a new reality in almost all schools in Brazil, in face of the facilitation of access to computer equipment. At this new moment emergences of several benefits for teaching, especially those about the Distance Education (EaD) ranging from the use of apps, through the socialization of educational programs to enrich the teaching approaches in all school subjects. In face of the above facts and the need to improve the teaching / learning process in courses (DL), this study aimed to identify the importance of the use of app called "organizes finance" for mobile devices that supports the teaching of Financial Mathematics, with settings interface, calculator, video lessons and questions. For this, we studied literature about the apps for mobile devices found in the "Play Store". That is a qualitative and quantitative research; it has been developed from a descriptive field research and experimental design. The location selected for the study it was the High and Technological School Instituto Federal do Piauí (IFPI), campus Floriano. The participants of the research were 48 students of the third year of high school/ technical courses that studied Technology and Buildings, divided into two groups: control and experimental. The procedures for the acquisition of the study were developed from a fast Course about Financial Mathematics and for gathering data, the application of a COLLES (Constructivist On-Line Learning Environment Survey), a pretest and posttest. The analysis of the results began with pre-test questionnaires, after the post-test and the semi-structured questionnaire. The data were showed in graphs and tables and identified the need to develop tactics that contribute to improving the work in the classroom, including the Financial Mathematics, it wasn’t being checked almost no difference between the two participating classes before the fast course. After the development of the short course in financial math, there was an increase in grades of students participating in both the experimental group and the control group. Compared by groups, there was difference between the group control and experimental group, which means that the use of the app for mobile developed influenced student performance that employed in the Financial Mathematics study for the development of short course distance observed by the improvement in posttest. Finally, participants in the experimental group showed as the main benefits of the application use the fact this technology facilitate learning of Financial Mathematics.