http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Thu, 23 May 2013 13:25:10 PDT Thu, 23 May 2013 13:25:10 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=235950 An IT based activity for beginners to understand the functions of a small scale business operation. The case considers break-even points and cash flow management.  The case is made up of three activities,, includes downloadable spreadsheets,  and contains a worksheet for analyzing costs, and a teacher’s guide.  A tutor version of the case is also available for use online.  Materials are designed for United Kingdom students. Some of the material by this author was drawn from Spreadsheets and Mathematics for I.T. by Andrew Rothery, John Murray Publishers, London, 1991. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=600836 This site shows some of what Microsoft Excel can offer as a programming environment for the creation of interactive teaching and learning tools.The available "interactive" Excel filesPrimarily for Undergraduates in an Experiments-based Course- Demand, supply and equilibrium - Unit tax - Prohibition - Labor market problems - Pollution - Long-run equilibrium - Productivity - Comparative advantage - BargainingPrimarily for More Advanced Microeconomics and Quantitative Work - Comparative statics - Preferences - Isoquants Contract curves - Walrasian equilibrium - Game theory - Statistics and probability - Financial Pure mathematics - Physics http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=297997 This textbook presents introductory economics (״principles״) material using standard mathematical tools, including calculus. It is designed for a relatively sophisticated undergraduate who has not taken a basic university course in economics. It also contains the standard intermediate microeconomics material and some material that ought to be standard but is not. The book can easily serve as an intermediate microeconomics text.The focus of this book is on the conceptual tools and not on fluff. Most microeconomics texts are mostly fluff and the fluff market is exceedingly over-served by $100+ texts. In contrast, this book reflects the approach actually adopted by the majority of economists for understanding economic activity. There are lots of models and equations and no pictures of economists.״The Open Source Introduction to Microeconomics״Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=88139 This URL is for the text, available online, of a bookpublished by the National Research Council--thesame folks who published the National Science Education Standards. The text is available in either HTML or PDF formats. Here is how the authors describe the book: "Each new headline about American students' poor performance in math and science leads to new calls for reform in teaching. Education Teachers of Science, Mathematics, and Technology puts the whole picture together by synthesizing what we know about the quality of math and science teaching, drawing conclusions about why teacher preparation needs reform, and then outlining recommendations for accomplishing the most important goals before us. As a framework for addressing the task, the book advocates partnerships among school districts, colleges, and universities, with contributions from scientists, mathematicians, teacher educators, and teachers. It then looks carefully at the status of the education reform movement and explores the motives for raising the bar for how well teachers teach and how well students learn. Also examined are important issues in teacher professionalism: what teachers should be taught about their subjects, the utility of in-service education, the challenge of program funding, and the merits of credentialing. Professional Development Schools are reviewed and vignettes presented that describe exemplary teacher development practices. " http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=300557 University Library of Regensburg offers the "Electronic Journals Library," which contains over 25,000 titles, of which over 10,500 journals can be read free-of-charge. There are journal articles in the following areas: Agriculture, Archeaology, Civil engineering, Biology, Chemistry, Art, Computer Science, Education, Economics, History, Mathematics, Media, Medicine, Linguistics, Philosophy, Sociology, Science,Technology and many more. For more information about Electronic Journals Library see: http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=7&lang=en. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=383616 Mathmatics faculty member Kate Stevenson (California State University Northridge) discusses her experience transforming the Business Math course on her campus. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=484436 International Trade: Theory and Policy is built on Steve Suranovic’s belief that to understand the international economy, students need to learn how economic models are applied to real world problems. It is true what they say, that “economists do it with models.” That’s because economic models provide insights about the world that are simply not obtainable solely by discussion of the issues. International Trade: Theory and Policy presents a variety of international trade models including the Ricardian model, the Heckscher-Ohlin model, and the monopolistic competition model. It includes trade policy analysis in both perfectly competitive and imperfectly competitive markets. The text also addresses current issues such as free trade area formation and administered protection policies. The models are developed, not by employing advanced mathematics, but rather by walking students through a detailed description of how a model’s assumptions influence its conclusions. But more importantly, each model and theory is connected to real world policy issues. The main purpose of the text is to provide a thorough grounding in the arguments concerning the age-old debate about free trade versus protectionism. This text has the following unique features: o The text begins with an historical overview of trade policy issues to provide context for the theory. o The text concludes with a detailed economic argument supporting free trade. o The welfare analysis in the Ricardian, Heckscher-Ohlin and specific factors models emphasize the redistributive effects of free trade by calculating changes in real incomes. o The trade policy chapter provides a comprehensive look at many more trade policies than are found in a printed textbook. o A chapter about domestic policies contains an evaluation of domestic taxes and subsidies that are often ignored in traditional trade textbooks but are increasingly important as large countries complain more about each other's domestic agriculture policies and labor and environmental policies. o The text uses the theory of the second-best to explain why protection can improve national welfare. This well-known theoretical result is rarely presented as methodically and consistently as it is in this text. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=78569 Found on the WetFeet.com web site, MAAP is a 71 question inventory that reveals a user's natural motivations, interests and talents for work. From a set of three options, participants select the statement with which they agree most and least. A partial profile is provided for the following trait groups: interest in job contents, temperament for the job, aptitude for the job, people, data, and things; reasoning, mathematical capacity, and language capacity. Although this is a commercial site and the ultimate goal is to sell a full analysis, participants do get to identify five jobs for which a career/match profile is provided. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=376870 A site to help students connect to business partners to solve real-world problems in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Fosters classroom to business connections. It ia a comprehensive resource for teachers who are considering or already using Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL). Throughout the site you will find videos featuring actual instructors, students, and business people-often in authentic classroom situations. You'll also find useful classroom tools, information about professional development programs, and other resources. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=511418 According to The Orange Grove, "Mαthematical Mαrketing is a flexible textbook for use in quantitative PhD courses in marketing. This book attempts to create a text designed to allow students to follow the mathematical reasoning used in Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research and other quantitatively oriented journals. As such, it does not hide the mathematics, but it does not assume that the student already has an extensive background in mathematics. The work can be used whole or in modules. Modules can be used as is or integrated into other class materials, books or other electronic output.״