Unit Two: Integers Project

Stock Market Project

What is the Stock Market?
The stock market is an everyday term we use to talk about a place where stocks and
bonds are "traded" meaning bought and sold. For many people, that is the first thing that
comes to mind for investing. The goal is to buy the stock, hold it for a time, and then sell
the stock for more than you paid for it.

What is a stock?
A piece of ownership of a company.

How does it work?

When you buy stock, you become a shareholder, which means you now own a "part" of
the company. If the company's profits go up, you "share" in those p rofits. If the company's
profits fall, so does the price of your stock. If you sold your stock on a day when the price
of that stock falls below the price you paid for it, you would lose money.

Prices?
In the stock market, prices rise and fall every day. When you invest in the stock market,
you are hoping that over the years, the stock will become much more valuable than the
price you paid for it. Stock prices vary from company to company. Additionally, the worth
a company can change within seconds. Oustide factors can determine how much a
company is worth.

Your Project:
1. You will choose a number with your group and you will be assigned a company
2. You will research this company - 1 paragraph each
a. What does this company do?
b. Who is the CEO and what is their background?
c. How much is this company worth and how much does it cost to buy a share in
this company?
d. Has this company had any influential positives or negatives for their stock? (For
example, Kevin Durant said that no one wants to play in UnderArmour which
sent the stock crashing.)
3. You will track the stock market for one week
a. You will track the data of your stock and record data on a table
b. You will graph each point of data onto a graph
c. You will create a number sentence and calculate at the end of the week
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Standards Assessed:
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.NS.A.1: Apply and extend previous understandings of addition and
subtraction to add and subtract rational numbers; represent addition and subtraction on a
horizontal or vertical number line diagram.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.NS.A.3: Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving the four
operations with rational numbers.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.3: Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how
setting shapes the characters or plot).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its
development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.

Rubric
Area 0 1 2 3
Organization Group does not Group has a Group has a Group has a
have a poster poster but it is poster that is poster with all
with essay. not organized organized into names, titles, 4
into sections sections, but is paragraphs
and does not missing some submitted, neat
meet all parts. graph,
requirements. organized data
table, and
color-coded and
labeled.
Companys Group does not Student has a Student has a Group has a
Purpose state purpose of sentence a bout paragraph that 5-sentence
company the purpose of is under 5 essay describing
the company. sentences that what the
describes what purpose of the
the purpose of company is.
the company is.
CEO Bio Group does not Group states Group states Group provides
give a who the CEO is who the CEO is a complete
background on and gives an biography of
the CEO incomplete the CEO
background on
the CEO
Companys Group does not Group provides Group provides Group provides
Worth provide any incomplete worth and worth and
information on information on pricing of stock pricing of stock.
worth or pricing worth and with no analysis. Group analyzes
of the pricing of stock whether or not
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companys their company is

stock pricier than
competitors
Companys Group does not Group provides Group provides Group provides
Influences provide any incomplete brief story,
information on background on background of background,
influences of companys companys and analysis of
companys influences on influences on how the
stocks stock stock companys
stock has been
affected by
outside
influence
Data Tracking Group does not Group has Group has most Group has
track data on a incomplete tracking of data tracking of data
data table tracking of data on table on table and
includes any
addition
information on
reasoning why
behind positive
or negative
growth
Graph Group does not Group has Group graphs Group has
graph data incomplete most data completed
graph graph with
labeled points
and axes.
Total change Group does not Group has Group has Group has
calculate total incomplete completed complete and
change number number accurate
sentence and/or sentence but number
miscalculations. miscalculations. sentence to
represent total
change.

Total: ________ / 24

Comments:

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Companies

1. General Electric 2. Bank of America 3. AT&T Inc. (T) 4. PayPal Holdings

(GE) (BAC) Inc. (PYPL)

5. Wells Fargo Inc. 6. Ford Motor Co. (F) 7. Under Armour Inc. 8. Macys Inc. (M)
(WFC) (UA)

9. Clorox Co. (CLX) 10. GoPro Inc. 11. PepsiCo 12. Abercrombie and
(GPRO) Fitch

13. Apple 14. Facebook 15. Microsoft 16. Amazon

17. Comcast 18. Exxon Mobil 19. Johnson & 20. Walmart
Johnson

21. Coca-Cola 22. Manchester 23. Disney 24. 21st Century Fox
United

25. FC Barcelona 26. Nike 27. Foot Locker 28. Adidas

29. Yahoo! 30. Coach Inc. 31. American Eagle 32. H&M

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Example Essay:

Nordstrom Inc. Stock

Nordstrom is a chain of expensive department stores in the United States. The main
office for Nordstrom is in Seattle, Washington. Nordstrom sells fashionable clothing,
furniture, jewelry, accessories, and shoes. The store was created in 1901 by John W.
Nordstrom and Carl F. Wallin. Nordstrom originally old sold shoes. Nordstrom is a very
popular store that many people shop at.
Blake Nordstrom is the CEO of Nordstrom and was born in 1961. He is the
great-grandson of the founder of Nordstrom. He even worked as stockboy and worked his
way up. He became president of the company at age 39 after Nordstrom was facing
money struggles. According to Reference for Business, Mr. Nordstrom has been quoted
saying My name's on the door. Every penny I have is in Nordstrom stock. This makes it
seem that Blake Nordstrom is very invested in his company.
As of today, Nordstrom is worth $7.01 billion. This less than Nordstroms main
competition who is Macys and is worth $22 billion. There are 349 Nordstrom stores in the
United States and there are 728 Macys stores, which may explain the difference in worth.
Each share for Nordstrom cost $42.15. This is down from one year ago which was $54.19.
It is really cool that Nordstrom has been run by the family for the past few decades,
but the family considered selling their company during the summer. When people heard
that the Nordstrom family wanted to sell, their stock prices went up 18% according to The
Motley Fool. In the past five years the Nordstrom has gone down a lot because not as
many people are shopping. While the family wants to continue to make money, I hope they
keep their business. It would be sad for them to sell their company when they already have
billions of dollars.