Stock Exchange

STOCK ECCHANGE Purpose Think in numerical terms.

When to Use Use with secondary students during lessons or units practice calculations in a real world context.

What You’ll Need o Play Money. o Newspapers, brochures or magazines containing information on stock

What to Do 1. Explain to students how the stock market works. 2. Provide each student with §1000 of artificial cash. 3. Provide each student with materials to research stock such as newspapers, brochures or financial magazines. 4. Have student “purchase” and record their stock collection. 5. One day a week, have student trade, purchase or sell stock and calculate their gains and losses. 6. End the unit after nine weeks with a discussion about what they learned using mathematics for buying and selling stocks.

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Use teams of three or five students. Use mutual funds or bonds. Visit stock exchange. Create all-class line graphs to track gains or losses of individual stock. Create pie charts that show the student’s “investment portfolio” or the specific stocks purchased and percentage of overall investment. Hightech 90 Shares 50% Photons 27 Shares 15% Super Pix 18 Shares 10% CC & T 45 Shares 25%

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