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How the game works

Stock Market Challenge transforms trading on the financial markets into an accessible and enjoyable collaborative learning experience for students and an effective tool for teachers and trainers.

Competitive

Players compete against the market and against the other teams in the room, which creates an exciting and enjoyable group activity.

Flexible

Having two versions of the game makes it suitable for different age groups and learning environments: Dealing Room, for smaller group teaching and training; and Trading Floor, for team-building and enterprise activities.

Time-pressured

Playing against the clock makes the learning experience effective and rewarding and enhances the development of skills such as team-working and communication.

Immersive and interactive

The combined effect of players’ actions in the game and their responses in the classroom environment creates a truly immersive learning experience.  

Easy to set up, easy to use.

No disks

The resource is delivered and stored online and all the game data is permanently and securely held on the server.

No downloads

Stock Market Challenge can be accessed via any web browser, from within a networked system or from stand-alone PCs or laptops.

No limits

Set up and store an unlimited library of games. The number of teams playing is only limited by the available bandwidth.

Dealing Room

Delivers the two elements of financial markets trading - researching and investing - in one simulated game environment.

Students, working in teams, invest...

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Trading Floor

Designed for larger group enrichment activities or enterprise days, students experience the excitement of buying and selling on a real trading floor.

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"A fantastic resource developing skills such as decision making, teamwork and problem solving. The pupils love it."

Paul Bulik, Business Studies, Firrhill High School, Edinburgh

"Stock Market Challenge introduces our pupils to the excitement of numbers, and the importance of the decimal point! Also, to a world of which they have little knowledge, but which is having a major effect on their lives."

Sarah Hodnett, Lead Academic Tutor, Maths, John Madejski Academy, Reading

"Stock Market Challenge has been a brilliant success for all our students. One of our main objectives is to foster links with professional bodies and industry and this is a great way of bringing these elements together."  

Dr. Lisa Bradley, Head of Department of International Business, University of Ulster

"Stock Market Challenge allows pupils to apply their understanding of mathematics to a real life situation in such a creative and refreshing way. I have written this into the scheme of work for all our KS4 classes. It's FAB!"

Lindsay Porter, Head of Maths, Moorside High School, Salford