Mathematics, the Stock Market and Technology:Learning How the Market Works Using an Interactive Game

• In Event: TED - TEDCamp: Strategies for Engaging Students

Short Description

Integrated, interdisciplinary curriculum can enhance learning by using technology to contextualize content focused on meaning. In this presentation, participants will learn how to use a free online technology (www.marketwatch.com) to support the development of mathematics and investing using a stock market game appropriate for secondary and/or university levels. An integrated lesson that took place in a mathematics methodology course will be showcased. Participants will dynamically learn through interactions with the game (bring your laptop).

Authors

• Terri L. Kurz, Arizona State University, Polytechnic

• Ivana Batarelo Kokic, University of Split, Croatia