Advanced Placement^® Edition

Macroeconomics

Make college level content accessible to all students without sacrificing the rigor required for success

100% aligned to the most current AP® Macroeconomics College Board^® CED.
Concise and focused content.
Scaffolded skill development.
AP-style assessment practice.

Each topic includes:

The Essential Question.
A narrative aligned to the course framework.
A reflection/review of the Essential Question.
A set of multiple-choice questions and long free-response questions.

Extensive AP exam preparation includes hundreds of AP-style multiple-choice and free-response questions and three full-length practice tests—one in the Student Edition and two in the Teacher Resource.

All test items have been meticulously constructed to model the format and quality of those on the exam.
Each question is tied to a specific learning objective from the course framework, allowing teachers to quickly diagnose individual and class performance.

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AMSCO has been a godsend to my students. It has made difficult information to learn much more accessible and digestible...my students were able to gain college credit at a high rate. I absolutely recommend textbooks by AMSCO as a valuable tool in the AP classroom."

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CCSD/Advanced Technologies Academy
Las Vegas, Nevada

College Board Course Audit Approval Support

Perfection Learning is an OpenStax ally. We join OpenStax in the mission to improve access to affordable educational materials by providing additional resources for OpenStax books. OpenStax is committed to providing free, peer-reviewed textbook content and offering multiple options for instructors who need additional resources for their course.

List the College Board-approved OpenStax Principles of Macroeconomics resource with the AMSCO Macroeconomics AP coursebook on your course audit. The paired OpenStax text is:

Available at no additional charge.
Listed on the College Board example textbook list as “Principles of Macroeconomics, OpenStax.”
Pre-approved for course audit submission.

The OpenStax Principles of Macroeconomics text has been aligned with the AMSCO coursebook including:

A day-by-day pacing guide showing how the AMSCO and OpenStax resources work together for instruction.
Page references to the exact locations in the OpenStax text where you can find additional content to enhance and deepen the AMSCO instruction.
Point-of-use links in the AMSCO eBook and interactive editions to the OpenStax aligned content.

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Think as an Economist

Topic activities focus on skills—principles and models, interpretation, manipulation, and graphing and visuals.

Economic Perspectives

Unit activities explore the diverse views of macroeconomists.

Graphing Functionality

Interactive editions include graphing features for students to demonstrate all three subcategories for Skill Category 4. This includes drawing, labeling, manipulating, and showing change on a graph.

Making college-level content accessible to high school students is of the utmost importance in ensuring success. The AP Macroeconomics coursebook is carefully written and designed to ensure all students:

Comprehend key ideas.
Learn and use concept vocabulary.
Build their analytical and writing skills.

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The AP Macroeconomics coursebook is built to meet the specific Learning Objectives and Essential Knowledge for each unit. As a result, the depth and breadth of content coverage align precisely with the AP Macroeconomics framework and exam.

AMSCO curriculum builds capacity, without sacrificing rigor, and supports students to develop the content knowledge and skills they need to be successful.

Initial inquiry and essay tasks are designed to be narrow in scope, allowing students to master smaller skills first.
Instruction and tasks to develop disciplinary practices and reasoning skills move from simple to complex as students gain competence.

Digital editions with built-in Immersive Reader support enable students to use a wealth of personalized tools to comprehend course content.

Translate and listen to the text in over 120 languages.
Customize readability by changing font type, size, and background color.

Immersive Reader example

Help students move from skimming and scanning to extracting key concepts, identifying events and developments, and formulating questions for further study. All highlights and notes are captured automatically in a running notebook—perfect for study and exam preparation.

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Engage students through collaboration.

Participate in dynamic, inclusive small group discussions.
Share ideas and perspectives based on meaningful, text-based questions.

Through Think As an Economist activities, students focus on a specific skill that real economists use, such as creating accurate graphs or describing economic concepts.

Advanced Placement Macroeconomics Think As An Economist sample page

Each unit includes an Economics Perspectives feature that explores a macroeconomics issue and the differing viewpoints that surround it.

Advanced Placement Macroeconomics Economics Perspectives sample page

Extensive Teacher Support

Teacher materials include:

A Teacher Resource with Answer Key. Best-choice answers are identified for each multiple-choice question. Rubrics and suggested good responses are provided for all free-response questions.
Customizable PowerPoint slides.
A day-by-day pacing guide.
Two full-length practice tests with rationales.
A correlation of each question to the College Board framework.
OER resources by topic.