Game Overview

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. One tool that meets these requirements in an innovative yet time tested way is The Stock Market Game™ program.

This game is an online market simulation allowing students to manage a virtual portfolio with real-time data and compete against other teams and schools regionally. This encourages students to get engaged while teaching them the fundamentals of economics and topics on saving and investing.

How Students Play:

Each student starts with virtual cash account of $100,000, students strive to create the best-performing portfolio using a live trading simulation. They work together in teams, practicing leadership, organization, negotiation, and cooperation as they compete for the top spot. The setup is engaging, and the learning is a natural part of the experience.

Resources for Teachers

The Stock Market Game™ program offers a vast library of learning materials correlated to national voluntary and state 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.

The program also teaches and reinforces these essential skills and concepts:

  • Critical thinking
  • Decision-making
  • Cooperation and communication
  • Independent research
  • Saving and investing

Since 1977, the program has given educators a way to improve the learning experience in thousands of classrooms. 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.