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Learning the Ways of the Market

Mercer Middle School's Susan Helsey has her eighth-grade class compete in a stock market game, where her students execute trades in a fantasy stock market as a way of learning how the market works.

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Akshay Murthy covers his eyes after watching his Google stock sink during class at Aldie's Mercer Middle School.

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Susan Helsley, center, has her eighth-graders at Mercer Middle School in Aldie "trade" stocks. Akshay Murthy, in striped shirt, high-fives Noah Simms after seeing one of their stocks rise. At left are Minh Tran and Sam Tate.

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