This high-interest, low-readability text makes it easy for you to engage students who struggle with reading, language, or a learning disabilityGenerously illustrated and easy to follow, Economics lays the foundation for economic thinking and the ability to make informed choices in the national and international marketplace. Explores key elements of the free enterprise system: supply, demand, price, competition, business, labor, money and banking, government, and the global economy. This... Read full description

This high-interest, low-readability text makes it easy for you to engage students who struggle with reading, language, or a learning disability

Generously illustrated and easy to follow, Economics lays the foundation for economic thinking and the ability to make informed choices in the national and international marketplace.

Explores key elements of the free enterprise system: supply, demand, price, competition, business, labor, money and banking, government, and the global economy. This full-color textbook is a valuable addition to any social studies curriculum.

Features:

• Short, concise chapters ensure student success
• Explores key elements of the free enterprise system
• Economic principles depicted with graphs, charts, and illustrations
• Chapter review questions mirror those found on standardized tests
• Aligns with National Content Standards in Economics

Contents: What Is Economics?, Economic Systems, Economics in the United States, Demand, Supply, Price, Competition, The Role of Businesses, Workers and Wages, Organized Labor and the Economy, The United States Banking System, The Federal Reserve System, The Role of Consumers, Managing Money, The Role of Government, The Federal Budget, Checking the Economy, Economic Challenges, International Trade, and Less Developed Countries

The Wraparound Teacher s Edition provides the full student text plus teaching strategies, lesson overviews, application activities, ideas for classroom activities, and tips on learning styles.

The Student Workbook provides necessary practice and reinforcement activities.

The Teacher s Resource Library contains hundreds of reinforcement activities, two forms of chapter tests, plus midterm and final tests. Everything is reproducible. Also includes Student Workbook pages and Answer Key.

Skill Track Software, a CD-ROM program, allows students to review each textbook lesson and/or chapter at their own pace. Available for both Windows® and Macintosh®, the software gives you hundreds of multiple-choice items directly related to textbook content. Built-in teacher management software allows the instructor to track student progress and print reports.

Curriculum Class Set Includes: 10 Textbooks, 1 Teacher’s Edition plus 1 Teacher’s Resource Library.

Curriculum/Software Class Set Includes: Curriculum Set above plus Skill Track Software

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