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August 2025 Updates and Notices

Friday 1 August 2025

August 2025 Updates and Notices 

Dear InThinking subscribers

Welcome to the August Newsletter!

As the new academic year begins, it is worth remembering that Economics can feel abstract for many 14-year-old students starting the IGCSE course in Term 1. To help make the subject more accessible and meaningful, we incorporate real-world case studies throughout the InThinking site. These resources aim to make Economics more relevant, engaging, and easier for students to connect with. Recent examples include:

A new year, a new syllabus

August 2025 marks the launch of the new IGCSE Economics (0455) syllabus, with first examinations scheduled for 2027. We are excited to announce that the first 15 chapters for the new syllabus are now live on the InThinking site! These sections include nearly 90 000 words of updated content, along with a revised e-book, engaging lesson activities, assessment guidance, worked examples, Quizlets, exam-style questions, and mark schemes - all designed to support you and your students through the new specification. New content is being added each week, throughout the year.

You can find details of all changes to the new syllabus here.

This video on YouTube might be useful to watch.

If you have not come across "The Arctic Island Survival Game (an introduction to IGCSE Economics)" activity on InThinking, please take a look here. This is a tried and tested lesson activity to get students really excited about studying IGCSE Economics. There isn't too much to prepare, and I am confident your students will be talking positively about this for many months ahead.

Other updates

Other recent updates to the website include:

  • A new vocabulary quiz for Topic 2.7.1 (Definition of PES), which can be found here. Teachers can print the PDF version to use with students in class or activate Student Access to allow students to use the interactive version on the website.
  • Two new Tridominoes Activities for Unit 3 (Microeconomic decision makers) have been created and added here. There are now Tridominoes Activities for the first four sections of the syllabus (which can be accessed using the "Exams" tab from the homepage). These are fun and engaging revision tasks for your Y11 students.
  • Did you know that data centres, including those operated by Google, consume up to 550 000 gallons of water daily to cool servers and maintain optimal operating temperatures. To put this into context, that is the equivalent of approximately 4 163 951 Evian 500ml bottles of water to cool data centres, every day! This is a great real-world example of negative externalities, which is covered in the new Topic 2.9.3 (Causes of market failure) of the syllabus here.
Student Access

Did you know that your InThinking IGCSE Economics students can have completely free access to the website once you have activated Student Access? You can also register other teachers in your school to gain access to the website, which is updated every week, 52 weeks a year. Content on the website now exceeds 580 000 words. To put this into context, the 320-page Cambridge-endorsed IGCSE Economics textbook (3rd edition), published by Hachette Learning, contains approximately 150 500 words.

There are several key functions to Student Access:

  • Students have access to all notes related to the contents of the course. Essentially, they can use the website as a comprehensive e-textbook for the entire course.
  • It allows students to directly access most, but not all, pages (such as examination papers and mark schemes, as well as other teacher support materials).
  • It enables teachers to create tasks for their students (refer to the Smart Quizzes section of the website).
  • It helps to consolidate student learning and facilitates revision (such as the Paper 1 MCQ tasks, which all come with answers that have explanations).
  • It allows teachers to monitor the progress of their students using the grade book.

To get started, go to the Student Access tab in the top left corner of the home page.

Social media engagement

At the time of writing, there are 297 teachers in our InThinking IGCSE Economics WhatsApp group, with members asking questions and sharing ideas and resources on a regular basis. What we ask for is that all members check their WhatsApp privacy settings to ensure their full name and a suitable profile picture are on display - this is simply so that we all know who we are communicating with.

We have 417 teachers in our Facebook group. Feel free to join these groups as we transition to teaching the new IGCSE Economics syllabus. You can also access all discussions and resources shared in the Facebook group after joining.

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 hearing from you, guiding the site's future developments. Testimonials for the InThinking IGCSE Economics website can be found here.

In addition to IGCSE Economics, there are existing InThinking IGCSE websites for:

  • Geography - authored by Paul Christmas

  • History - authored by Jo Thomas and Keely Rogers

  • Business - authored by Mark Johnson

These site authors are all outstanding educators and experts in their respective subjects. Please share the details with your colleagues if your school offers any of these IGCSE subjects.

Wishing you all the best for a great new academic year ahead.

Paul Hoang

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