Homeschool Economics learning resources to help students learn more easily

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Basic Statistics

• Finding the Mode of a Data Set: Basic statistics are a part of your business toolbox. This tutorial shows you how to find the mode of a data set using your own numbers.
• Finding the Range of a Data Set: Basic statistics are a part of your business toolbox. This tutorial shows you the step-by-step process of how to find the range of a data set using your own numbers.
• Basic Statistics: Explore basic statistics with this printable Smartacus Study Sheet. Review the types of graphs (line, bar, pie chart), how to read a table, and basic data set values -- median, mode, mean, and range.
• Finding the Mean of a Data Set: Basic statistics are a part of your business toolbox. This tutorial shows you the step-by-step process of how to find the mean of a data set using your own numbers.
• Finding the Median of a Data Set: This tutorial shows you the step-by-step process of how to find the median of a data set using your own numbers. It also shows how this process differs, depending on having an even or odd number of values in your data set.
• How to Read a Bar Graph: This brief tutorial explains the various parts of a bar graph and shows how it is used to visually represent information.
• How to Read a Line Graph: This brief tutorial explains the various parts of a line graph and shows how it is used to visually represent information.
• How to Read a Pie Chart: This brief tutorial explains the various parts of a pie chart (or pie graph) and shows how it is used to visually represent information.
• How to Read a Table: This brief tutorial explains the various parts of a data table and shows how it is used to visually represent information.

Government Intervention

• Price Ceiling: This Cramlet explains the concept of the price ceiling and the impact it can have on pricing, consumer demand, and production.
• Price Floor: Learn about the concept of a price floor and the impact it can have on pricing, consumer demand, and production.
• Taxes on a Buyer and a Seller: Governments use taxes as an imposed financial charge or levy upon an individual or legal entity to raise revenue for public-purposes. Learn how taxes affect buyers and sellers with this tutorial.

Graphs and Lines

• Graphing: Graphs are a fundamental concept in many areas, from math to economics. This interactive tutorial will guide you through the basic concepts, including calculating the slope of a line.
• Slope of a Line: Do you know what the 'rise over the run' means? Use this Formula Solver! Series program to learn how to determine the slope of a line, and discover what conditions can result in having a negative slope, a positive slope, or no slope at all.

Miscellaneous

• CPI Salary Calculator: Knowing the consumer price index (CPI) for a city helps you see how affordable it is. This Formula Solver will help you compare salaries relative to the CPI's for two cities.
• Intro Business Quiz: How well do you know your business terms? Take the plunge with this fun quiz -- ten questions randomly selected from accounting, economics, finance, management, marketing, business organization, and human resources.
• My Intro Business Flashcards: Learn the important terms and definitions for accounting, marketing, economics, and other business disciplines with these flashcards. You can even study while you play a concentration game, too!
• Smart Stock: Test your financial genius with this smart stock market simulation. Make your millions or blow it all on a bad break -- this is an addictive game!

Supply and Demand

• Demand Curve - Moving Along the Curve: The demand curve shows how price can affect the quantity demanded of a product or service. Learn about the concept of demand and movement along the demand curve with this interactive tutorial.
• Demand Curve - Shifting the Curve: The demand curve shows how price can affect the quantity demanded of a product or service. Learn about the concept of demand and the how the demand curve shifts with this interactive tutorial.
• Equilibrium Curve - Shifting the Curve: The supply and demand curve equilibrium shows the point of market equilibrium where the supply curve and demand curve intersect. Learn about how changes in one curve affects the other with this interactive tutorial.
• Equilibrium Curve - The Effects of Price: The supply and demand curve equilibrium shows the point of a balanced market where the supply curve intersects the demand curve. Learn how changes in price affects the equilibrium in this interactive tutorial.
• Price Elasticity of Demand - Standard: The price elasticity of demand is used to learn how much of a change will occur to the demand quantity when the price changes. Learn how price elasticity of demand works with this interactive tutorial.
• Price Elasticity of Supply: The price elasticity of supply is used to learn how much of a change will occur to the supply quantity when the price changes. Learn about the price elasticity of supply with this interactive tutorial.
• Production Possibilities Frontier: The production possibilities frontier is a graph representing the possible output combinations of two products in the current market of technology and resources, creating a choice of tradeoffs in the marketplace. Learn more about the production possibilities frontier with this interactive tutorial.
• Supply Curve - Moving Along the Curve: The supply curve shows how price can affect the quantity supplied of a product or service, if all the variables affecting demand remain constant. Learn about the supply curve and movement along the curve with this interactive tutorial.
• Supply Curve - Shifting the Curve: The supply curve shows how price can affect the quantity supplied of a product or service, if all the variables affecting demand remain constant. Learn about the supply curve and how changes in supply quantity affect the curve with this interactive tutorial.