What could be the link between a college education and reduced crime rates? Learners consider the question using authentic College Board materials. Other practice sets examine the effects of price and competition in various case studies.

Concepts

cost, equilibrium, microeconomics, test preparation, competition, prices, monopolies

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Create similar scenarios to reinforce instruction
• Offer all or some of the questions as test practice

Classroom Considerations

• Prompts are the form B free-response questions from the 2001 AP® exam in microeconomics

Pros

• Real-world scenarios engage interest and participation
  
• Scoring guidelines make student feedback easy for teachers and peers to give
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.3 RH.9-10.10 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.3 RH.11-12.10