Welcome
Smooth Economics is a free online multimedia textbook for learning and teaching economics. Currently under construction, the site aims to grow to offer a complete set of resources for both students and teachers of A-level economics, with full sets of slides, worksheets, and assessments.
Smooth Economics resources are designed to foster the growth of student understanding from the ground up.
Pages and presentations are laid out to be simple and accessible, but with thorough explanations starting from first principles, aiming to ensure that all students can progress and reach their full potential.
Workbooks are designed to give students challenging and varied practice opportunities, as well as providing avenues for assessment.
In the future, the site hopes to produce resources that go even further. Currently lined up are resources for UCAS, enrichment resources and more.
From the blog
- Feeding AmericaA discussion on the introduction of market forces for allocating food to food banks. In the USA there’s an amazing organisation called Feeding America that receives donations of 50 truckloads of food, each containing 13,000kg of provisions, every day. Its job is to distribute the food to the 215 food banks who are affiliated with…
- Model Economic ModelsIn economics, a model is a hypothesis embodied by a set of relationships between a dependent variable, the cause, (x-axis) and an independent variable, the effect, (y-axis) variables. As household income increases, household expenditure increases is a hypothesis where the direct variable, which in this case is the extra income, is causing the indirect variable,…
Directory
Resources for the A-level course can be reached through the directory below:
N.B. Some topics maybe classified differently to how they are taught in some A-level courses. This is due to slight differences in the specifications of some exam boards. Resources are roughly listed in-line with the Edexcel Economics A specification.
