100,000th Student Prepares for AP Economics Exams with Advanced Placement Economics Workbooks
Milestone demonstrates value of applied "drill-and-practice" approach to mastering AP Economics content.
New York, NY (PRWEB) December 23, 2005 -- The National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) announced today that it has shipped the 100,000th copy of its popular Advanced Placement Economics student workbook, demonstrating both the strength of the AP Economics program and NCEE's commitment to giving teachers practical tools for teaching all levels of economics (http://store.ncee.net/apeconomics.html).
"Advanced Placement Economics helps teachers prepare their students for the AP Economics exams by using a rigorous approach to learning college-level economics," said Robert Duvall, President and CEO of NCEE. "This landmark accomplishment shows the timeless value these activity-based workbooks add to an AP Economics program."
Advanced Placement Economics is used to teach a college-level economics course that prepares high school students for the AP Economics exams, administered each spring by the College Board.
Designed as a supplement to an AP Economics teacher's primary textbook, it uses two components:
| | - The Teacher Resource Manual gives teachers the form and structure for their AP Economics course. It contains unit and lesson overviews, course objectives, supplemental lesson plans, planning suggestions, visuals and answers to the Student Activities.
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| | - The Student Activities Workbooks for Macroeconomics and Microeconomics feature activity-based lessons that illustrate the key concepts and principles being taught through lectures and textbook readings. The workbooks give students an economics reasoning framework to approach and solve the AP Economics exam questions, and provide special emphasis on graphing and supplemental readings. The microeconomics workbook contains 55 activities and the macroeconomic workbook contains 60 activities.
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In a typical AP Economics class, teachers provide each student with their own workbook and then use the Teacher Resource Manual to complement their chosen college-level economics textbook. Teachers use the supplemental lesson plans from the Teacher Resource Manual to illustrate challenging economics concepts, and assign corresponding activities from the student workbooks to give students applied practice with college-level economics principles.
"The entire high school economics curriculum benefits when teachers confidently use materials that help increase student achievement on the AP Economics exams," added Duvall.
More information on Advanced Placement Economics is available at http://store.ncee.net/apeconomics.html
About the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE)
The NCEE (www.ncee.net) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to improving economic literacy. Through its unique nationwide network of state Councils and more than 200 university based Centers for Economic Education, NCEE’s programs reach more than 150,000 K-12 teachers and over 15 million students in more than 70,000 schools each year.
About Advanced Placement Economics
In its third edition, the Advanced Placement Economics series is also referred to as “the Morton books” by veteran AP Economics teachers, after the lead author of all three editions, John S. Morton. To learn more about Advanced Placement Economics, or to place an order, visit http://store.ncee.net/apeconomics.html
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