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Exploring Economic Inequality with Data part of Teaching Resources:Quantitative Writing:Examples
This set of assignments exposes students to data which can be used to analyze economic inequality in international and historical context. Then students are asked to generate a thesis-driven argument drawing supporting evidence from one or more of the data sources.
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Comparison of GDP and the Human Development Index (HDI). part of Teaching Resources:Quantitative Writing:Examples
This assignment exposes students to data on economic growth anddevelopment as commonly measured by per capita GDP and the HumanDevelopment Index (HDI) for 100 countries of the world. There is a bigdebate about how good an indicator HDI is compared to GDP per capita asa measure of development.
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills, :Writing:Quantitative Writing, Communication Skills:Writing
Measuring Wellbeing across Racial Groups using Data and Statistics part of Teaching Resources:Quantitative Writing:Examples
This set of assignments exposes students to statistics and data pertaining to economic wellbeing over time across racial (black-white)categories in the U.S.
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills, :Writing, Writing:Quantitative Writing
Teaching Principles Students How to Assess the State of the Economy part of Teaching Resources:Quantitative Writing:Examples
Principles of economics students are asked to collect and analyze data on a few macro economic aggregates to give them a first taste of empirical work.
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills:Writing, Writing:Quantitative Writing, Communication Skills
Data Rich Economic Policy Brief part of National Numeracy Network:Teaching Resources:Quantitative Writing:Examples
This assignment asks students to write a data-rich policy brief, showing their ability to apply standard microeconomic models and contextualizing the policy debate with numeric evidence.
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Economic argument about increasing fuel efficiency part of National Numeracy Network:Teaching Resources:Quantitative Writing:Examples
Critique of an economic argument about increasing fuel efficiency involving linear and exponential growth.
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Imperfect Competition: Context-Rich Problem part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Context-Rich Problems:Examples
This context-rich problem helps students to apply the characteristics of imperfect competition to a real world setting.
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills:Writing, Pedagogic Methods:Problem Solving:Context Rich Problems
Game Theory Context-Rich Problem part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Context-Rich Problems:Examples
This consists of a short essay to be written by students after watching the West Wing episode "Hartsfield's Landing." In it, students are asked to help a friend to understand the content of the show using the basic components of non-cooperative game theory and the prisoner's dilemma.
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills:Writing, Pedagogic Methods:Problem Solving:Context Rich Problems
Price Ceiling: Context Rich Problem part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Context-Rich Problems:Examples
context rich problem on price ceilings
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Pedagogic Methods:Problem Solving:Context Rich Problems, Communication Skills:Writing
Tax burden context-rich problem part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Context-Rich Problems:Examples
Students are asked to write a letter to the editor of their newspaper to explain their point of view as a seller in a market that is about to experience an increased sales tax rate.
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Pedagogic Methods:Problem Solving:Context Rich Problems, Communication Skills:Writing
