Cost Benefit Jr.: Stories in Microeconomics
Stephanie Herman
Paperback
(Geke Publishing, July 7, 2013)
Cost Benefit Jr.™: Stories in Microeconomics is a literature-based curriculum in microeconomics for kids. Students as young as eight can learn complex concepts like supply & demand, opportunity cost, and diminishing marginal utility when they’re presented in simple stories.Each weekly story and quiz will take the average 4th grade student 20 to 30 minutes to read and complete. The curriculum is meant to cover a normal school year, and is ideal for homeschoolers or as a quick & easy supplement to classroom learning.Cost Benefit Jr.™: Stories in Microeconomics covers the price system, supply & demand, opportunity costs, incentives, limited resources, market negotiation, competition, unseen costs and benefits, budgeting, cost-benefit analysis, and the roles of both savings and consumption in the flow of an economy. It covers the following national curriculum standards published by the National Council on Economic Education: Standard 1: Scarcity Standard 2: Marginal Cost/Benefit Standard 4: Role of Incentives Standard 5: Gain from Trade Standard 7: Markets – Price and Quantity Determination Standard 8: Role of Price in Market System Standard 9: Role of Competition Standard 14: Profit and the EntrepreneurIn addition to economic principles, our book reinforces basic math and reading comprehension skills, as well as the interpretation of basic graphs. It’s full of bright photographs and graphics, printed in full color. A glossary of terms is included, along with an online Answer Key.Please follow the author at @geke on Steemit.com.