Two sandwich shops must decide whether it's to their benefit to set pricing together. What happens when the government also intervenes with a price subsidy? Learners consider these questions as they tackle prompts from College Board. Other practice sets include examinations of profits and supply and demand curves. 

Concepts

microeconomics, test preparation, prices, government regulation, supply and demand, supply curves, profit

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Divide learners into teams to solve problems under time constraints
• Administer all or part of resource to review for the AP® exam

Classroom Considerations

• Questions are the free-response prompts from the 2015 AP® exam in microeconomics

Pros

• Some prompts are case studies, making them relatable to the real world
• Scoring guidelines simplify student feedback

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