Introduction
Have you ever been watching TV, and seen the financial ticker on the bottom of the screen and wondered what those strange symbols meant?
Wouldn't it be great to be able to explain those symbols to your friends?
Stock ticker boards like the one shown here can look like a lot of useless numbers, but they all have meaning once you understand how to read them.
Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to...
- Locate and describe stock transaction data
Enduring Understandings
- Investment information can be read, interpreted and algebraically modeled.
The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: Algebra with Finance standards: 4.