November 2023 Updates and Notices
Tuesday 31 October 2023
November 2023 Updates and Notices
Dear InThinking subscribers
Welcome to the November 2023 updates and notices to the website.
It's been a busy month of updates. Some of the highlights are shared below.
The highly popular "Tridominoes Activity" has added to the website to support students with their revision in a fun and engaging way. The first set of Tridominoes for Unit 1 of the syllabus has been uploaded here. Your students will enjoy this interesting activity which will get them talking about the different terms and phrases that feature in Unit 1 of the Economics syllabus.
A revision video and accompanying worksheet for Unit 2.7 (price elasticity of demand) has been added here.
For Unit 4.3 (Fiscal policy), 40 multiple choice questions have been added to the site. These are split into two quizzes, each with a succinct explanation of the answer provided to support your students' understanding of this challenging topic in the syllabus. The first Paper 1 MCQ quiz can be found here and the second quiz can be found here.
For Unit 4.4 (Monetary policy), 25 Paper 1 MCQs have been added here. Teachers can set any of these Paper 1 MCQ tasks as homework/tests since they are auto-marked, with the scores being recorded in your digital markbook. Instructions for setting this up can be found via the Student Access hyperlink on the homepage.
Similarly, 25 interactive Paper 1 MCQs for Unit 4.6 (Economic growth) have been added here. Answers are also provided to support students' understanding of this topic.
Additional Paper 2 exam practice questions for Unit 2.7 (Price elasticity of demand) have been added here.
Paper 2 exam practice questions have also been added to Unit 5.3.3 (The effects of changes in the size & structure of population on different countries) here. This particular set of questions is based on Hong Kong's declining population.
A new interactive True or False quiz for Unit 5.1.2 (Comparing living standards and income distribution) has been added here.
For Unit 6.4.4 (Policies to achieve balance of payments stability), a new interactive and auto-marked quiz has been added here. There are 15 questions, each with a short explanation to support your students' learning.
Last month, New York City announced its plans to introduce a congestion charge in Manhattan as a way to tackle the negative externalities associated with traffic in the city. A video and accompanying worksheet have been added here on the website.
I do hope that you are enjoying the website and that you and your students are making full use of the resources. At the time of writing, we have 66 teachers from all continents using InThinking IGCSE Economics. There are also 579 registered students using the website. Please remember that you can activate Student Access https://www.thinkigcse.net/economics/std-access from the homepage to enable all of your student to use the resources on InThinking free of charge.
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Finally, we know at InThinking that the strength and growth of the community of teachers using our sites rely on word of mouth. If you are enjoying the website, please share your insights through your own social networks. We are certainly keen on hear from you, which will help to guide the website's future developments. Testimonials for the InThinking IGCSE Economics can be found here.
In addition to Economics, there are existing websites for IGCSE Geography and IGCSE History. There are more IGCSE subjects in the pipeline as well.
Wishing you a productive month ahead.
Paul Hoang
