I should have invested!

2023-11-20 09:44:46

I should have invested!


 

People who have invested their money in the stock markets could have made a lot of money in recent years.  Students use yearly percent increase data to decide which stock: Apple, Disney or Amazon, they should have invested in way back in 2015.

  • What was the net gain of these stocks?
  • How do you figure that?
  • Does the arithmetic or geometric average of those increases equal their total gain or loss over the years?
Middle school students can access this activity by finding percent increases & decreases.  Students can either approximate an annual growth rate or find an exact growth rate by finding the geometric mean of the growth rates. Older students can apply nth roots and write exponential functions to model investment growth over time.  

For Adventurer members we have an editable Word docx, an Excel sheet of our data calculations, and solutions and teaching tips.

Download PDF Download Editable Files
Share this:
Comments (0)
    Display 1 - 10 Of total 0
    Someone ate my cake
    In this fraction operation and representation ...
    Everything Royal Wedding
      Friday, April 29, 2011, at 11:00 a.m. will...
    Lionel Messi, soccer star and influencer
    Lionel Messi is possibly the best soccer pla...
    Choosing the NBA All-Star team
    The weekend of February 14 - 16 wil...
    How did they figure these tips?
      Act I:  This restaurant bill ha...
    The odds of horse race betting
    Rich Strike surprised everyone at the Kentucky D...
    Mardi Gras, 2023
    Updated for 2023! Tuesday, February 21, 202...
    California water measurements - chains, links, and furlongs
    [caption id="attachment_17570" align="aligncenter"...
    Giant iceberg breaks off from Antarctica
    The crack in Antarctica's Larson C ice she...