Senior Economics Workbook: NCEA Level 3, 2nd edition

Senior Economics Workbook supports and extends student’s class work, and helps to prepare them for NCEA Level 3 Economics as prescribed by the New Zealand Curriculum.

Each chapter contains brief content notes, and questions and activities to give practice and help consolidate understanding*. The activities encourage the development of analytical techniques and offer opportunities for students to interpret economic data and arguments in a clear, coherent manner and communicate their economic ideas and understandings to others.

For those students working at scholarship level, there are extension activities and exercises to support their study for assessment at that level.

*Nobel Prize winning studies (mainly on the sea slug Aplysia) have shown that when something is first learnt, brain cells undergo a chemical change. Unless the learning is reviewed or repeated within a few days, the chemical effect fades and the memory is lost - this is short-term memory. Repetition of the learning encourages brain cells to make structural changes - they actually grow new connections (synapses) that lock the learning into long-term memory, so it can be called upon even years later. This resource is designed to help students form long-term memories, so that when they learn something, it stays learnt.