Teacher Webpage

I hope this webquest can be used at the high school level, possible in a business class. Or is could be adapted for a statistical class. If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to email me, just click the email envelope that is at the bottom of each webpage.

Webquest Help

Teachers, here is some help with Step 6. Use the Toyota 2004 Annual Report as an example. Scroll down to page 4. Each question is answered, so you know where and how to find this information.

1. What are your company's latest reported revenues?
 Have they increased or decreased from the previous year? 

	$163,627,000, Revenues increased from the previous year.


2.What are your company's latest reported net income?
 Has it increased or decreased form the previous year? 

	$10,995,000, Net income increased from the previous year.


3. If you owned a share of your company's stock, 
 what would your cash dividend per share be? 

	$0.43


4. Look at the reported share performance. 
 What is the price per share of your company (according to the annual report)? 

	$36.71


5. What are the earnings (net income) per share? 

	$3.24


6.What is your company's Price to Earning's ratio (P/E) using per share data? 

	(36.71/3.24)= 11.33


7. What is your company's Return on Investments (ROI)? 

	15.2%


Click here to learn more about the P/E Ratio and the ROI.

If you have any questions or concerns about this information, please send me an email.

Educational Standards for Ohio

Here is a list of some of the Mathematical Benchmarks for using this webquest. These standards were found in the Academic Standards K-12 Mathematics.

• Create and analyze tabular and graphical displays of using appropriate tools, including spreadsheets and graphing calculators.



• Design and perform a statistical experiment, simulation or study, collect and interpret data; and use descriptive statistics to communicate and support predictions and conclusions.



• Connect statistical techniques to applications in workplace and consumer situations.



• Compare the characteristics of mean, median, and mode for a given set of data, and explain which measure of center best represents the data.



• Estimate, compute, and solve problems involving real numbers, including ratio, proportion and percent, and explain solutions.

This webquest can also meet some economical and technological content standards.

Additional Information

• Stock-Track - Use this stock simulation to practice trading. It does cost money, but it would be great to use with this webquest.



• The Stock Market Game - Use this stock market game to trade stocks. This would also be an excellent resource to use with this webquest. (this seems to be better priced).



• Fantasy Investments - This website would be an excellent resource to use with this webquest.



• Investing for Kids - Teacher will find parts of this website useful.