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Hooray for you! You have registered your class for the Stock Market Game and will be integrating an exciting Internet simulation into your teaching that will make learning seem like a "game" to your students. The Stock Market Game (SMG) is an investment education program designed for students in grades 4 through 12, post-secondary students, and others who want to learn more about investing and managing their financial future. How many times have you wished someone had taught you about this subject at an early age? Using this exciting, real-world simulation, you can meet state teaching standards in most any subject you teach.
Are you a math teacher? If so, students will see real-world applications as they learn to use ratios, decimals, estimating skills, fractions, amounts of money, basic computation, percentages, graphs, and charts. Are you a social studies, or economics teacher? SMG will reinforce your introduction of financial markets and institutions, supply and demand, profit and loss, opportunity cost, history, current events and more!
Business and Life-skills teachers use SMG to teach students about business organizations, capital formation, marketing, finance, budgeting, personal finance, consumerism, and about the securities industry. Co-teach
with a language arts teacher and
reinforce writing skills (persuasive, reflection, analyzing, journaling) and
vocabulary or with a technology teacher as
students learn to use the Internet for research, data entry, and keyboarding
skills.
Working as teams, your students will develop valuable process skills, like time management, decision-making, consensus building, and cooperation. Teachers
who have used the Stock Market Game for years tell us students can't wait to
sign up for their classes. Students are enthusiastic about SMG because of its
realism, team-based decision-making, and genuine fun. We think you will find The Stock Market Game to be a program you will want to use year-after-year! So, let's get started!
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