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• Introducing Graphical Analysis ( More about this ) - Demonstration, using the relationship between mean grades and the effort put in by students to demonstrate, positive linear, negative linear, and quadratic realtionships between variables. Discusses changes in the mean as well as ways to change the shape of a graph without changing the mean. Students should take away knowledge of trade offs. Creator: Ralph Byrns Submitted on: 05/12/2010 Subject: economics, trend Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division) Type: Instructional Strategy Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Graphical Literacy ( More about this ) - An explanation of using graphical relationships to make assumptions about data. Warns about the danger of using correlation to imply causation. Creator: Michael Kuehlwein Submitted on: 05/11/2010 Subject: economics, trend Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division) Type: Article Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Aftermath(ematics) of Election 2000 ( More about this ) - This paper explains the importance of statistics and mathematics in American presidential elections. It focuses on vote counts, vote counting errors, statistical models for whether vote errors are randomly distributed. It also covers relative distribution of powers between several states in the Electoral College. Creator: Bill Briggs Submitted on: 04/29/2010 Subject: government, elections, voters Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division) Type: Article Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Using Feature Films to Teach Observation in Undergraduate Research Methods ( More about this ) - Observation is an important component of data collection that forms the basis of a great deal of qualitative research and is also a building block for theorizing in sociology. This dimension of social science research is perhaps the most difficult to teach beacuase there are no fixed guidelines to follow that can enable one to become an effective observer. Yet teaching students how to observe social relationships or ongoing interaction is the problem we shall address in this paper. Creator: JooEan Tan, Yiu-Chung Ko Submitted on: 09/24/2009 Subject: higher education, educational attainment, communications/media, attitudes Education Level: Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division) Type: Article Access Rights: Available by Subscription Relevance

• Cocaine and the Elacticity of Demand ( More about this ) - A strategy for teaching elasticity of demand. The instructor points out that after a seizure of 40% of the world's cocaine supply, price barely changed which suggests a horizontal demand curve: very elastic demand. Because this does not mesh with the idea of cocaine addicts, students must consider the paradox. It turns out that the worldwide supply of cocaine had been underestimated, and thus the proportion of cocaine seized had been overestimated. Creator: Michael Kuehlwein Submitted on: 05/12/2010 Subject: economics Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division) Type: Instructional Strategy Access Rights: Free Access Relevance