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CENGAGE LEARNING Economics For Today 9Th Edition by Irvin B Tucker
Help students visualize economics in action with the most pedagogically rich, complete text on the market: Irvin Tucker's ECONOMICS FOR TODAY, 9E. This dynamic book offers a clear, engaging writing style ideal for students at all levels. Written by a national award-winning educator, ECONOMICS FOR TODAY provides a unique textual and visual learning system that presents and reinforces core concepts, then immediately assesses comprehension to ensure understanding. The author highlights the latest information on economic growth, income distribution, federal deficits, environmental issues, and other economic developments while applying concepts to everyday life.
New to this Edition:
.PROGRESSION GRAPHS WITH GRAPH BUILDER DEMONSTRATES HOW GRAPHS ARE DEVELOPED STEP BY STEP. Students see graphical exhibits developed in a step-by-step layer process through both MindTap® and Aplia. Students watch demand and supply curves shift to establish changes in equilibrium. They even practice creating meaningful graphs themselves with Graph Builder, by being presented with a scenario, create their own graph, and then get instant feedback, all the while being able to try the graph again and again.
.NEW SECTION REVIEW QUIZZES TEST STUDENT COMPREHENSION. After each section, new section review questions, available in MindTap®, allow students to test their knowledge of material that was just presented. Instructions for incorrect questions clearly explain why an answer is incorrect. No other text provides multiple-choice sample quizzes with a tutorial after each section.
.NEW ADAPTIVE TEST PREP APP HELPS STUDENTS PREPARE FOR TEST SUCCESS. Students are able to generate multiple practice tests across chapters and sections to assess their level of understanding prior to your course exams. This unique, student-focused resource program grades the practice tests and indicates areas that students have or have not been mastered. Students receive an Adaptive Study Plan that includes highly targeted remediation resources. The Adaptive Study Plan, available through MindTap, also directs students to pertinent pages in the text where practice question materials are referenced.
.NEW AUTHOR-CREATED VIDEOS FURTHER CLARIFY KEY ECONOMIC CONCEPTS. These author-developed features capture students' attention while providing further clarification of the key economic concepts throughout this edition.
.LEADING Aplia DIGITAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ENCOURAGES INTERACTIVE LEARNING. Aplia is the most successful and widely used homework solution in the Economics market. Online interactive problem sets, analyses, tutorials, experiments, and critical-thinking exercises give students hands-on application without adding to instructors' workload. Based on discovery learning, Aplia requires students to take an active role in the learning process--helping them improve their economic understanding and ability to relate to the economic concepts presented. Instructors can assign homework that is automatically graded and recorded.
.Macroeconomic Data at a Glance powered by FRED: Available in MindTap, this learning path resource allows students to work with live macroeconomic data from FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data). The 23 macroeconomic indicators tracked correlate to those in the book.
Features:
.EXCLUSIVE "ANALYZE THE ISSUE" FEATURES TEST STUDENTS' UNDERSTANDING OF PRINCIPLES. These challenging features follow each "You're the Economist" or "Global Economics" insert. They are designed to check students' understanding of how the content specifically relates to practical economic concepts. Specific, thought-provoking questions prompt meaningful classroom discussions or may be assigned for homework. Corresponding answers appear in the Instructor's Manual.
.CAUSATION CHAIN GAME HELPS STUDENTS VISUALIZE COMPLEX ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS. A favorite with instructors, highly successful causation chains are included under many graphs throughout the text. This pedagogical device helps students visualize complex economic relationships using simple box diagrams that illustrate how one change causes another change. Each causation chain in the text has a corresponding Animated Causation Chain game within Tucker's MindTap solution. This game makes it fun to learn and succeed!
.UNIQUE CHECKPOINTS GENERATE STUDENT INTEREST AND PROMPT CRITICAL THINKING. Who says learning economics cannot be fun? Unique, engaging "Checkpoints" spark students' interest while checking their progress using challenging economics puzzles in a game-like style. Students enjoy analyzing and answering intriguing questions, and checking answers at the end of the chapter. They gain personal satisfaction as they realize they have truly mastered a concept.
.DISTINCTIVE PART ROAD MAPS REVIEW KEY MATERIAL FROM EACH PART. This feature concludes each part with review questions from the previous part, organized by chapter. To reinforce the concepts, each set of questions relates to the interactive Causation Chain Game. Students simply click on the Tucker website to make review fun. Answers to the questions are available on the Instructor's Resource Center.
.LEADING Aplia DIGITAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ENCOURAGES INTERACTIVE LEARNING. Aplia offers comprehensive interactive economic problem sets, analyses, tutorials, experiments and critical thinking exercises that require students to take an active role in the learning process. Based on discovery learning, the system helps students improve economic understanding without creating extra work for you, the instructor. The system automatically grades and records homework and works with any learning management system.
.OUTSTANDING VISUAL SUMMARIES WRAP UP KEY POINTS FROM EACH CHAPTER. Each chapter ends with a brief point-by-point summary of the key concepts. Many of these summarized points include miniaturized versions of the important graphs and causation chains that illustrate key concepts. These serve as visual reminders for students as they finish the chapters. They are also useful in reviewing and studying for quizzes and exams.
.ONLINE EXERCISES SPARK STUDENTS' EXCITEMENT ABOUT ECONOMIC RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET. Meaningful exercises for each chapter require students to access online economic data and answer questions related to the content of the chapter. All Internet exercises appear on the Tucker website (www.cengage.com/economics/tucker) with direct links to the online addresses. With this time-saving help, students avoid the tedious and error-prone task of entering long website addresses.
.CUSTOMIZATION CHOICES IN MINDTAP AND APLIA OFFER ULTIMATE TEACHING FLEXIBILITY. Chapters can be rearranged, online chapters can be customized in print, and you have the option to add any topic, including your own research and notes or specialized topics drawn from the Cengage Economics Issues database.
About the Author:
Irvin B. Tucker
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Dr. Irvin B. Tucker spent more than 30 years of teaching introductory economics at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. He earned his B.S. in economics at North Carolina State University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of South Carolina. He was a long-time member of the National Council on Economic Education. Dr. Tucker served as executive director of the S.C. Council of Education and director of the Center for Economic Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He was recognized for his ability to relate basic principles to economic issues and public policy. His work has received national recognition with awards from the Meritorious Levy Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education, the Federation of Independent Business Award for Postsecondary Educator of the Year in Entrepreneurship and Economic Education, and the Freedom Foundation's George Washington Medal for Excellence in Economic Education. In addition, Dr. Tucker's research has been published in numerous professional journal articles on a wide range of topics, including industrial organization, entrepreneurship, and economics of education. Dr. Tucker also authored other highly successful economics books, including ECONOMICS FOR TODAY and ECONOMICS AND FINANCE.