Eighth graders work in pairs to discover how to prioritize expenses in a budget.

Students explore the concept of graphing data. For this graphing data lesson, students determine the percentage of sugar in bubble gum. Students graph type of gum vs. sugar percentage. Students create a table of their data.

Students participate in a simulation in which the aim is for the tortoise to catch up with the hare or vice versa. Moves are decided by throwing two dice. Adding together the numbers on the two dice tells you which animal moves one...

This article focuses on the structure of costs in the short run; some costs are fixed, so you can't do anything about them. It includes a questions.

This economics lesson explores what influences producers to supply in regard to demand. It examines fixed and variable costs, how such costs can be reduced, and how they influence production. Includes printable worksheets.

Learners will be able to make economically sound purchasing decisions by using unit pricing, calculating discounts, and analyzing fixed and variable costs.

In this activity, students perform breakeven analysis using the cost and revenue of an enterprise. They will determine the relationship between fixed and variable costs, profits, pricing policy, and the volume of output.

Practice what you have learned about the difference between marginal cost, average variable cost, and fixed costs in this four-question exercise.

This lesson provides a good outline for a unit on the study of "production costs". Charts and graphs are provided to help understand a firm's cost curves, and at what level of production they should produce.