Correlations of Delaware Math Standards with Stock Market Game Curriculum


Correlations of SMG curriculum with the Delaware Standards in Math are a work in progress. At this time, Math Standards for the Middle Grades have been correlated with the curriculum package, Learning From the Market. Learning From the Market is available to download from the Teacher's Administrative Site on the SMG web site.

LEARNING FROM THE MARKET

Lesson Type

Standards (PI's 6-8)

Description

UNIT I:
INTRODUCING THE STOCK MARKET

1.

Why Study the Stock Market?

Activity

6.201, 6.209, 7.201, 7.208, 8.201, 8.208,

Use computation to solve problems

2.

What Is a Corporation?

Activity

6.231, 7.219

Construct and interpret a circle graph

3.

What Is a Stock? Or, Who Owns McDonalds?

Read/Write

4.

What Are Markets?

Handout

5.

Showtime on Wall Street

Play/Reading

6.

How Are Stock Prices Determined?

Simulation

6.230, 7.228, 8.226

Collect and organize data

Simulation

7.219, 8.216

Interpret and analyze tables

Simulation

6.201, 6.209, 7.201, 7.208, 8.201, 8.208

Use computation to solve problems

Simulation

6.231, 7.229, 8.227

Construct and interpret line graphs

7.

How to Read the Stock Tables

Handout/Hunt

7.219, 8.216

Interpret and analyze tables

Handout/Hunt

7.210, 8.209

Apply percents and ratios to problems

Handout/Hunt

6.214, 6.216, 6.213, 7.215

Use equivalent forms of fractions and decimals in problem situations

8.

How Do You Make or Lose Money in the Stock Market?

Handouts

6.231, 7.229, 8.227

Construct and interpret line graph

Handouts

7.210,

Apply percents

Handouts

6.201, 6.209, 7.201, 7.208, 8.201, 8.208

Use computation to solve problems

Handouts

7.213, 7.214, 7.218

Compute with integers

Handouts

7.210, 7.212

Compute percents

Handouts

7.210, 8.209

Apply percents and ratios to problems

9.

Getting Fancy: The Bulls, the Bears, and the Pigs!

Play/Activity

6.201, 6.209, 7.201, 7.208, 8.201, 8.208

Use computation to solve problems

Play/Activity

7.213, 7.214, 7.218

Compute with integers

Play/Activity

7.210, 7.212

Compute percents

 

UNIT II:
PERSONAL INVESTING

10.

Are Stock Markets Only for the Wealthy?

Handouts

6.231, 7.219, 7.229, 8.216

Construct a bar graph

11.

Getting Rich is Child's Play -- The News About Compound Interest

Handouts

Use a calculator constant to compute exponential growth and compound interest

Handouts

Use a computer spreadsheet

Handouts

7.210, 7.212

Computer percents

12.

All Savings Choices Involve Risk: Grandma's Gift

Handouts

13.

Some Risks Are Greater than Others

Handouts

Determine probability

6.201, 6.209, 7.201, 7.208, 8.201, 8.208,

Use computation to solve problems

14.

How to Choose a Stock

Handouts

15.

Building a Stock Portfolio

Handouts

7.210, 8.209

Apply percents and ratios to problems

Handouts

7.210, 7.212

Compute percents

Handouts

6.201, 6.209, 7.201, 7.208, 8.201, 8.208,

Use computation to solve problems

Handouts

7.219, 8.216

Interpret and analyze tables

Handouts

6.231, 7.219, 7.229, 8.216

Construct a bar graph

 

UNIT III:
HOW INVESTING AFFECTS THE ECONOMY

16.

Playing Along with the Averages

Handouts

6.201, 6.209, 7.201, 7.208, 8.201, 8.208,

Use computation to solve problems

Handouts

6.223, 7.231

Compute and analyze averages

Handouts

Analyze percents of increase

17.

The Market-Go-Round

Handouts

18.

I've Got the Workin' in the Chalk-Mark Factory, Increasing My Productivity Blues

Role Playing

8.208, 7.208

Compute unit costs

Role Playing

6.203, 7.203, 8.203

Execute and analyze results of a situation

Role Playing

6.201, 6.209, 7.201, 7.208, 8.201, 8.208,

Use computation to solve problems

19.

How Do Saving and Investing Affect Economic Growth?

Handouts

7.219, 8.216

Interpret and analyze tables

UNIT IV:
TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS

20.

How Do Businesses Obtain Financing?

Handouts

21.

How to Read an Annual Report

Handouts

7.219, 8.216

Interpret and analyze tables

Handouts

6.211, 6.221, 7.210, 8.209

Apply percents and ratios

Handouts

6.236, 7.208, 8.209

Compute percents and ratios

22.

Researching a Business

Handouts

7.219, 8.216

Interpret and analyze tables

Handouts

6.220

Construct and analyze graphs

Handouts

6.221

Compute and analyze ratios

 

UNIT V:
HOW THE ECONOMY AFFECTS INVESTMENTS

23.

Business Cycles and the Stock Market

Visuals

24.

How Do Domestic and International Events Influence the Buying and Selling of Stocks?

Handouts