Consumo com responsabilidade

Abstract

This article deals with the Teaching Project <Consumption with Responsibility= held at the Pedagogical Center of the School of Basic and Professional Education at UFMG with the participation of two third year classes belonging to the 1st Cycle of Human Formation, comprising the participation of fifty and two children. The project focused on responsible consumption as an opportunity to introduce debates on conscious consumption since childhood as a way to contribute to a better society. In addition, it sought, in this school age group, to consolidate certain skills related to Mathematical Literacy, such as, for example, focusing on the Monetary system, recognizing bank notes and coins that circulate in Brazil and in the world; possible exchanges between banknotes and coins depending on their values; solve operations, problems involving buying, selling and exchanging. It should also be noted that the project was structured in an interdisciplinary way, in addition to mathematics it covered the fields of science, history, geography and art. The classes were filled with games, songs, games, construction of concrete materials, videos and other strategies that made possible the pleasant contact with the different fields of knowledge that permeate the studied theme. Equating the need for consumption and maintaining the environment has been a great challenge for men and women in the modern context, and it is necessary to address the issue from an early age.