One of my big challenges in teaching is to get students to think about equations as a way of communicating, as the grammar of finance, rather than as facts to be memorized. I learned how to crochet as a child, a thing I did with some friends to kill time in the summer. I’ve taken it… [Read More]
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An Accounting Practice Set
When I was teaching accounting this summer, I put together a Accounting Exercise to get students to practice journal entries. It is attached for anyone looking for extra practice. I have no solution sheet, but if you have questions, ask them here! (Unless, of course, you are a pathetic SEO spammer who wants to post… [Read More]
Two Fun Classroom Experiments
I like to work some in-class exercises into my courses for two reasons: they help students think of material in a new way while breaking up the monotony of a lecture course. There are several of these online and in a journal called The Journal of Economics Education. I’m always looking for something new and… [Read More]