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Let's Play the Stock Market

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Eighth graders explore the basics about investing in the stock market, begin to see how the knowledge of decimals, fraction, and percents can be applied to financial profit or loss if investing in the market, and track their stocks using newspapers or Internet.

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8th
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Math
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