Another great way to learn about markets?

Participating in a hands-on game with friends and family. Watch the video below!

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The simulation focused on trading strategies and trader behavior, and participants used play money and colorful construction paper to make trades. Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy and Khan Lab School, decided to use the board game Risk as the reality for the market to predict. In Paranoia Risk, once a player eliminates his or her target, that player wins the game.

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During our event, that player not only won, but the market simulation came to a close and the winning color became the only valuable stock. But here you see the people and you see the excitement, or when people get down on the stock you can see it very viscerally. In addition to the five Risk players, there were also a number of roles filled by Khan Academy team members: Orange decided to haul his main force into Africa, and Blue took Europe and northeast America.

Green occupied the remainder of America, while Black was scattered around the Middle East and Asia. Trading Teams rushed around, still unsure who would win.

Sal, who facilitated the simulation, noted that not every team watched the Risk game in order to determine which stocks to purchase. After an hour, the Yellow Risk player made it clear that he was out to eliminate Orange, and the game ended when he clustered all his troops in one country and bombarded Orange off the board.

Victor, our student writer, wrote: Each team added up the value of their stocks and their play money, and after Sal announced winners, the whole group reflected on what they noticed and learned. Blog Calendar Khan Academy Parent Portal.

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