Each student was given a pretend $100,000 to invest in U.S. companies of their choice. (There wasn't a Canadian version available.)
So on Tuesday mornings, we log in to monitor the rankings and make trades with new and old stocks, and basically check out what everyone else is investing in. Each trade is followed up with the calculations governing them, so everyone is practicing decimal multiplication and addition skills.
Within one day, one of the portfolios increased by more than 4.5% -- that translated into a gain of over $4,000! The rankings change every day though, because the markets fluctuate a lot even over the course of one hour.
Centennial is certainly not recommending that we gamble our money on the stock market but this game does provide good math exercises and is a fun, friendly, competitive group activity.
Posted by Karen
I would like to know the calculations for your stock market game. Can you setup a similar game for me or send me the calculations?
ReplyDeleteWould be very glad if you could help me i wish to conduct the event in my school too.
Thanks