Worksheet 7

Activity 1: "Stock Market Game"

There are 10 companies listed which the pupils can buy shares in.

Each pupil starts with $400 and each stock is work $100 to start with. The prices rise and fall over a 6 day period. At the end of each day the pupils must decide what to buy and sell and calculate, using their trading sheets, how much money they have made and have to make high level decisions about how to invest their money.

There is a 6 o'clock news each day with headlines which may affect the stocks the next day. Teachers can improvise here, there are several construction based companies so a fire or building collapse etc could change the price of shares in a company for example. You can have fun with this bit. Include some red herrings!

See the included Google Slides that accompany the teaching of the lesson.

* Lesson is generated from https://www.alamandamaths.com/number-and-algebra/money/solve-problems-involving-profit-and-lloss/# and https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/stock-market-trading-game-stocks-shares-probability-money-11588880