Stock Market Math

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Stock Market Math

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Kids are bombarded by advertising everywhere, but many are unaware of the companies behind the brand names. So get your students invested in their favorite companies, and teach some statistics skills along the way! Students will get an understanding of how the stock market works by reading and interpreting line graphs as they record the progress of their selected stocks over the course of a week.

Education Levels:

Subject:

Economics, Statistics, Probability

Resource Type:

Activity

Medium:

Text/HTML

Fee Status:

Free

Beneficiary:

Students

Online provider:

Education.com

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Keywords:

Stock market, Investments, Shareholders, Stock portfolios, Multiplication

Mediator:

Elementary school teachers

Publisher:

Education.com

Contributor:

Brigid Del Carmen

Is Part Of:

http://www.education.com/

Language:

English

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Essential Resources:

Computers with Internet access; Paper; Pencils; Stock graphs (from Internet or newspaper)

Learning Time:

1 week

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Mathematics, Economics

Learning Outcomes:

Broad Correlation

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (2010)

Statistics and Probability

Develop understanding of statistical variability.

2. Understand that a set of data collected to answer a statistical question has a distribution which can be described by its center, spread, and overall shape.

This data provided by the Achievement Standards Network

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