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Exploring Economics
Pathways to Problem Solving
by Robert L. Sexton



Chapter 4: Supply and Demand
Chapter 7: Consumer Choice and Elasticities

The EconActive Student CD-ROM to accompany Robert Sexton's Exploring Economics is a valuable learning resource for today's economics student. It reinforces the book's concepts with real-world applications of basic economic principles. For each chapter, the CD provides first-rate learning components including Chapter Notes, Key Concepts, Cyberproblems, In the News sections as well as Matching, True/False and Multiple Choice Quizzes. In selected chapters, students are given the opportunity to see first hand how specific economic factors affect each other via Java -powered exercises and corresponding quizzes.

EconActive's learning resources provide the student with additional help in attaining a basic understanding of key economic concepts. Chapter Notes summarize the main ideas covered in the book. Key Concepts and corresponding Matching Quizzes give the student a working economics vocabulary. Testing features include Multiple Choice and True/False Quizzes to evaluate student comprehension. Cyberproblems provide the student with an avenue to explore the World Wide Web for examples of economics at work in everyday life. In the News sections provide up-to-date articles and related questions that expand student understanding and demonstrate how economic principles appear daily in the media. With original and exciting interactive Java Excercises, students can manipulate economic data on animated graphs and see how the market is affected by changing economic data. All components of the EconActive Student CD-ROM work together to facilitate and reinforce economic learning with the Exploring Economics package.

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