Drawing
by Adolfo F. Drawing
by Alex Z.
Drawing
by Adolfo F. Drawing
by Alex Z.
Every Tuesday and Thursday for 10 weeks, class 6-411 played the Stock Market Game. Our class was divided into 6 groups. These are the steps that we followed to participate in the game.
1) Each group picked up our folders and newspapers and sat together with their group.
2) We looked at our computerized reports which showed our stock prices, our gains and losses, and our places in the game.
3) We looked for articles in the "Business and Technology section" of the newspaper to gain insight on what stocks to buy, not buy, or sell.
4) Our group would work together to determine whether to sell any of our stocks or to buy more stocks.
5) We would fill out a sheet where we calculated the total cost of each stock that we bought or sold.
6) We transfered all of the information to a scantron sheet and Mrs. Logan sent it to the SMG in New York City.
7) Each week we received updates that let us know our status in NYC compared to all of the other participants.
Description of process written by Sabina
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My class played the Stock Market Game for the past several weeks. Here are my thoughts about it. A benefit I got from playing the SMG is that I got a good education. It taught me daily life skills and math skills. The SMG taught me about teamwork, cooperation, and maintaining responsibilities. It taught me to buy, sell, and manage stocks. I liked the SMG because it taught me to work in a group. Everyone in the group had a job to do, such as graphing our results, filling out worksheets, and computing our gains and losses. I disliked the SMG because it didn't last long enough. Also, I wish we were able to have made more money. |
The Stock Market Game was very confusing at first, but after a while you get the hang of it. There are rules to the game, such as, you must have a minimum of three stocks. Each stock must cost at least $5.00 per share. You only get $100,000.00 to spend. Another rule is that you must buy at least 100 shares of a stock. We looked through the newspapers for stocks. there were also articles that we read that helped us to choose stocks and helped us decide about the stocks we bought and sold. One person in the group is the captain, and one is the recorder. That is the person who writes down the prices of the stocks when we bought them every week. The rest of the players were either the people who looked for stocks or looked up stocks in the code book. After you bought your stocks, the captain fills out a scantron sheet with the stocks we bought. |