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presented by the
Colorado Council on Economic Education
A classroom simulation
for students in Grades 4-12
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FREE 3-Week Promo Game Dates:
July 6 thru 23, 2010
August 2 thru 20, 2010
September 7 thru 24, 2010
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Fall 2010 Game Dates:
September 27 thru December 3, 2010
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Early Spring 2011 Game Dates:
January 1 thru April 22, 2011
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Late Spring 2011 Game Dates:
March 14 thru May 20, 2011
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Cost:
$10 per team (3-5 students) with a 3 team minimum per
teacher, plus you can sign up for a FREE teacher’s team.
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Questions:
303-832-4764, 888-815-2974 toll-free, or
smg@ccee.net
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Register:
http://colorado.smgww.org
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Current Stock Market Game™ Brochure
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Teacher Trainings Workshops
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2010
spring winners,
2009 Fall Winners
and
2009 Spring Winners
Please
contact ERICA FUKUHARA at smg@ccee.net,
303-832-4764, or
888.815-2974 toll-free for more information.
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Here’s How
the
Stock Market Game™ Works
Step 1 - Virtual Cash
Students start with a virtual $100,000 cash account. Teachers use our curriculum
to teach about long-term savings and investing.
Step 2 - Team Research
Working in teams, students research and evaluate companies and decide how they
want to invest their cash together, based on what they have learned.
Step 3 - Academic Enrichment
Students follow the news and learn how current events can shape the economy.
Plus they learn math as they calculate how changes in their stock prices affect
their portfolio’s value.
Step 4 - Portfolio Management
Students purchase and sell stocks online as they follow the market and develop
an understanding of what makes companies succeed, and how economic and political
events can impact a company’s stock. Students compete for awards and all
students receive a certificate of participation.
Step 5 - InvestWrite
Our national essay contest, InvestWrite, is an excellent culminating activity.
Essay questions focus students on the importance of long-term saving and
investing and strengthen their language skills. You don’t have to teach language
arts to participate and there are great prizes available for both teachers and
students. Learn more at
www.investwrite.info.
What
students gain from The Stock Market Game™ (SMG) program is a remarkable and
memorable experience — an understanding of how their classroom lessons apply to
the real world, and lifelong learning skills.
Who?
The Stock Market Game™ is appropriate for
Grades 4-12.
What?
Comprehensive educational program based on a real-life simulation of the stock
market.
Why?
The Stock Market Game™ teaches about the U.S. economic system while conveying
and reinforcing basic concepts in economics, math, business, language arts,
social studies, personal finance, and more. In fact, the SMG curriculum is
correlated to Colorado Performance Based Standards in 4 core academic areas for
grades 4-12 including Economics, English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Social
Studies.
SMG Team Cost
$10 per team (3-5 students) with a 3 team minimum per teacher, plus you can sign
up for a FREE teacher’s team.
InvestWrite Essay Contest
Students who participate in SMG may also enter InvestWrite, a national writing
competition that is an extension of SMG. Students are provided a topic and an
investment scenario, which requires them to assess, research, and then formulate
possible solutions based on their findings, logic, and ideas. InvestWrite essays
are reviewed by a national panel of judges.
Awards
Participants in the Fall and Early Spring SMG are eligible for regional and
state level awards for The Stock Market Game™. In addition, InvestWrite entries
are eligible for state and national awards. Award winning students and teachers
are recognized at the annual Stock Market Game award ceremony in May.
We provide everything
you need to teach your students the Stock Market Game! Teacher and student
materials include valuable online resources including research tools, lesson
plans, curriculum, online teacher training, online newspaper subscriptions and
up-to-date SMG Program news!
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Proven Results in
Mathematics
and Financial Literacy
The Study of The Stock Market Game™
In the fall of 2008, Learning Point Associates® conducted a
nationwide randomized controlled trial in nearly 600 classrooms nationwide
measuring the impact of The Stock Market Game™ (SMG) on student performance
in mathematics and financial literacy. We are very excited to share the
positive results of this study with you! download
the complete report
This rigorous study found that
The Stock Market Game program significantly improved student performance in
mathematics and increased financial literacy.
Students took grade-level appropriate mathematics tests
composed of items from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP),
known as "the Nation’s Report Card."
Average Mathematics Test Scores from Stock Market Game
Study
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Played
SMG |
Did
not play SMG |
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Grades
4-6 |
55th
percentile |
43rd
percentile |
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Grades
7-10 |
54th
percentile |
46th
percentile |
Students also took grade-level appropriate tests to measure
financial literacy.
Average Financial Literacy
Test Scores from Stock Market Game Study
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Played
SMG |
Did
not play SMG |
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Grades
4-6 |
68th
percentile |
42nd
percentile |
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Grades
7-10 |
58th
percentile |
42nd
percentile |
Analyses indicated that regardless of the classroom
techniques – basic or more advanced – students playing The Stock Market
Game™ showed better performance on the mathematics and financial literacy
tests than their nonplaying peers.
Register your student teams today at
www.stockmarketgame.org!
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