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Small trades.
Big discoveries.

Teach stocks and economics with a classroom stock market game. Give your class a shared fictional market, virtual money, and a reason to ask why.

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Virtual money. Real decisions to think about.

FOR EDUCATORS

Your lesson. Your classroom.

Create a session, share its room code, and lead the activity. Add your own questions or choose from 36 economics prompts, from middle school to advanced high school.

Create or sign in to your educator account.
Create a classroom and get its six-character code.
Share the code with students, then start together.

Open educator workspace

New educator? Open the educator workspace to see signup options. Students join with a classroom code.

FOR STUDENTS

Got a classroom code?

Your teacher will give you a six-character room code. Enter it here, then choose a nickname. No student account or email needed.

Use the same browser and device to return to your portfolio.

EXPLORE AT YOUR OWN PACE

Try a practice market.

Start with a fictional timed challenge or explore freely without a deadline. No market-data setup needed. The reporter helps you think through your choices.

Play on my own

The gameplay tutorial will show you around when you first play.

A classroom stock market game for economics lessons

Market Mayhem gives students virtual money and a shared fictional market. Headlines change conditions; students decide what to buy, sell or keep in cash. Use those decisions to discuss opportunity cost, diversification and the difference between a good explanation and a lucky result.

Lead the activity

Create a room, share its code and start when the class is ready. Pause trading for discussion, queue lesson questions and adjust the market pace. Save a private lesson template to reuse settings and questions with a fresh group.

Try a 30-minute classroom activity

Make the debrief count

Compare portfolio outcomes and ask students to explain a decision using the news and their trade history. Finished sessions include a recap and reflection prompts. The aim is to examine reasoning, not just reward the highest return.

Explore a worked portfolio example

Before your first class

Do students need accounts?

Students join with a six-character room code and an approved nickname, without an email account. They need the same browser and device to return to their portfolio. Teachers manage sessions through their educator account.

Is this real trading?

No real money is invested and no brokerage orders are placed. Classroom markets are fictional simulations. The game simplifies markets so a class can examine choices and outcomes together.

How should I prepare?

Try an adult-only test room first, check the controls and review the privacy and game-data information. Obtain your school's authorization before using the beta with students. The Education edition is ad-free.