Financial Mathematics Characteristics Expressed in Textbooks: connections between the classroom and other practices that comprise the financial mathematics discipline

Abstract

Our goal in this study was to establish characteristics of Financial Mathematics expressed in textbooks and, as implication, understand how these books could connect Financial Mathematics classrooms with other practices related with academic Financial Mathematics. For this, we analyzed three textbooks selected from those indicated by a Federal University and State Universities in the state of Bahia. As a result, we identified the centrality of exercise solving of semi-real situations as a way to teach and learn Financial Mathematics, with simplification of these situations, as well as a kind of training for solving them. We also identified an attempt to approach workplace or everyday practices through its own language and procedures and the secondary use of the technology available.

Keywords:
Financial Mathematics; Textbooks; Connections; Exercises; Technology