1/8/2016 January 8, 2016We are investors! (virtual investors, that is). Students purchased stock in their pre-selected companies based on the stock's opening price on December 7. They will then record the opening price for each stock held once a week for the next eight weeks. Those of you who follow the market may not be surprised that many of their portfolios have lost money after the initial purchase. It is always difficult for some students when doing their spreadsheet set up to get the idea that their assets do not have to total the original $10,000 each week. If nothing ever changed why would anyone invest? We buy stocks at a certain price, whatever is left over from our original money is cash. The value of the stocks held plus the original cash will equal the total assets. We are just holding what was originally purchased and monitoring the increase or decrease in the value of the shares. For assignment 005-8 students submitted their spreadsheet containing the first 2 weeks of data, and I reviewed it for accuracy before they continued with the remaining weeks. For assignment 006-8 students must complete calculations for all four weeks in December and then post their assets total (cash plus stock) in a master list and we can then see who is "in the lead" to date. Finally for this quarter, students will submit a screenshot (one or more) to indicate progress made during the Hour of Code activities in December. (assignment 007-8) Final reminder: Students who have an Incomplete to date due to not finishing all parts of the November assignment will have until January 15 to submit all missing work. After that the missing components will be entered as a zero. There have been 2 recess periods where students have been called in to work, but there is nothing that cannot be finished outside of the classroom for this.
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