Financial Mathematics in Basic Education, with a focus on Investiment Analysis
Financial Mathematics, Capital Equivalence, Investment Analysis, Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return.
This dissertation aims to highlight the importance of Financial Mathematics in the basic formation of a student, working necessary skills to make decisions in purchase and sale operations and investment analysis. We seek to show that some skills developed in basic education serve as a theoretical basis for a more investigative vision, which provides the construction of models and problem solving, providing conditions for the approach to Financial Mathematics contents that, generally, are worked only in higher education. The development of the work led us to the study of two of the main mathematical methods used in the “Investment Analysis” (Net Present Value Method - NPV and Internal Rate of Return Method - TIR), providing to the basic education teachers necessary subsidies for initial teaching of this important branch of Financial Mathematics. The work was accomplished through the description and mathematical analysis of each of the two investment analysis techniques, and later study of some applications (worked algebraically and with the HP-12C financial calculator). It is important to stand out that the whole mathematical theory involved in the work is based on capital equivalence where, through the displacement of capital over time, we developed both methods of investment analysis.