International Markets and Money

Year Group: 8

Subject Area: Mathematics

Brief details of Idea: This is a 1-day exercise with lots of opportunity to follow up and learn. Different groups will ‘play’ different countries selling different products with different currencies, measurement systems and so on.

The exercise will thus illustrate some of the problems of world trade, but also how these problems need to be overcome and the benefits that then flow from countries co-operating in trade.

The idea is that the exercise will take place in the school foyer offering lots of opportunity for team playing and interaction.

Hence this exercise will teach a number of enterprise and entrepreneurial skills within the context of world trade such as geographical and economic research, market research, mathematics, the role of money etc as well as team working, communication, interpersonal skills.