Interest rates and unemployment rates help gauge the health of an economy. Learners consider various factors that affect economic indicators using authentic materials from College Board. Problems also include practice creating graphs.

Concepts

the unemployment rate, interest rates, supply and demand, employment

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Use all or some of the problems as a review for the AP® exam
• Create similar problems to enhance direct instruction

Classroom Considerations

• Provides the free-response questions from the 2006 AP® Macroeconomics exam

Pros

• Guidelines and answer keys make feedback simple in preparation for the exam
  
• Questions allow for authentic test practice

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