Welcome to the Investment Challenge!

Are your S5 students ready to test their key skills and apply their maths and business know-how in a unique competitive challenge? The Investment Challenge is an online competition for students from schools across North East and South East Scotland. Find out more

Free to enter

Includes a free site licence of the full Stock Market Challenge resource, which includes three simulation games: Trading Floor, Dealing Room and Global Investor.

Who can take part?

S5 students from schools in the North East and South East of Scotland.

First prize

The winning students will be invited to Standard Life's offices in Edinburgh to see at first-hand traders at work on the company's Investments Desk.

How is your team doing? Qualifying closes in 24 days

Dates for your diary:

  • 4th MayRegistration closes
  • 7th MayAccess to resource
  • 7th MayQualifying begins
  • 12th JunQualifying ends
  • 14th JunFinal
  • 15th JunWinner announced
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Video competition:

Make a short film of your involvement in the competition and have it featured on the website!

More information

Subject areas covered:

  • Maths
  • Business Studies
  • Economics
  • Core Skills
  • Work-related Learning
  • Team Building
  • Enterprise
  • Financial Capability

Competition sponsors

Meet financial sector professionals...

...at the final event on June 14 at Standard Life's offices.

"Stock Market Challenge helped my pupils develop their core kills of comunication, team-working, analysing information and decision making."

Julie-Anne Hamilton, Business Education Teacher, Inveralmond High School

"An excellent resource that I will continue to use as it shows pupils how Maths is used in real life and how quickly they have to calculate and think in order to make a profit."

Stephen Dodds, Maths Teacher, Calderglen High School, East Kilbride

"Stock Market Challenge provides a good practical demonstration of maths in a real world context."

John Byrne, Maths Teacher, Castlebrae Community High School

The program is superb.  It works for all ages at secondary and all ability levels and the pupils are completely engrossed in the experience.  It teaches all pupils about the way the world of finance works in a fun and easily accessible way.

David Davidson, Maths Teacher, Kircudbright Academy