The Stock Market Game
The Nevada Stock Market Game™ (SMG) is an online stock market simulation offered to all Nevada students in grades 4-12. It includes grade and subject specific on-line curriculum and classroom lesson plans that are aligned to Nevada’s standards in Economics, Mathematics, Language Arts, Social Studies, and Technology. The SMG is a comprehensive, educational and interdisciplinary program in which student teams of 3-5 participants receive a virtual $100,000 to invest in stocks and mutual funds during a 10-week competition. The Stock Market Game™ is designed to support team-based, cooperative learning through lessons that engender student-centered teaching.
Spring SMG Competition
February 25-May 2, 2008
Through participation in the Stock Market Game, students will be able to:
- Develop and apply algebraic thinking skills, solving problems using charts, words, pictures, symbolic expressions and patterns.
- Locate, research, and summarize information about the economy in the newspaper.
- Understand, develop, and apply team skills.
- Compete against other teams throughout Nevada for prizes. The top five teams and their teachers in each grade division are invited to the SMG Awards Luncheon.
- Participate in the InvestWrite essay competition and win great prizes.
- Increase their awareness and understanding of the importance of saving and investing – for their future.
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Teachers have discovered that The Stock Market Game program actually boosts attendance and reduces dropout rates. Students who participate in the program gain confidence and build self-esteem. They have fun—and learn more effectively as they see how their classroom lessons apply to the real world. What students gain from The Stock Market Game program is a remarkable experience—and even more important, an education for life.
Now more than ever, schools are looking for ways to meet higher education standards while working within tighter budgets. To meet this challenge, schools are seeking more effective educational tools that both motivate students and support teachers in building lifelong learning skills.
Teachers have successfully used The Stock Market Game™ program to enliven core academic subjects — including Math, Social Studies, and Language Arts — and research has shown there's no better way to learn the importance of saving and investing.
The Stock Market Game™ program offers a vast library of learning materials correlated to national voluntary and Nevada educational standards in Math, Business Education, Economics, English/Language Arts, Technology, Social Studies and Family and Consumer Sciences. This resource has inspired many teachers to incorporate the program into classes in creative ways — at all levels, from fourth grade to college, all across the curriculum.
Students use internet research and news updates, making the simulation an even better mirror of the real marketplace. While the competitive game-play creates student excitement, the educational experience delivers the biggest impact.
AN INNOVATIVE WAY TO LEARN
Students who participate in the Stock Market Game™ program learn more than investing. As they progress, they learn core academic concepts and skills that can help them succeed in the classroom — and in life.
In building a portfolio, students research and evaluate stocks, and make decisions based on what they've learned. Teams trade common stocks and mutual funds from the NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX exchanges; earn interest on cash balances; pay interest if buying on margin and pay a commission on all trades. To determine why certain stocks perform the way they do or why the broader market has moved up or down, they need to understand how the economy works, and to calculate their returns they need to do the math.
ABOUT THE STOCK MARKET GAME PROGRAM
The Stock Market Game program is an online education program used in thousands of classrooms nationwide to help teach math, social studies, business, economics, and language skills while focusing on the importance of long-term savings and investment. The Stock Market Game, introduced in 1977 as the first educational stock market simulation, has now reached more than 10 million students, making it the most widely used program of its kind.
The program is made possible by the support of more than 600 securities firms, combined with essential grassroots support in schools and communities. It is the only stock market simulation supported by the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ Stock Market.
