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Mike Fladlien

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Muscatine, Iowa, United States
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30 years teaching business classes. During this time, I've been both assistant and varsity wrestling coach and junior high wrestling coach. I currently have a mock trial team.
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Preview of Production Possibilities Curve -- A Unit

Production Possibilities Curve -- A Unit

Created by
Mike Fladlien
A complete set of problems that will enhance your teaching of opportunity cost, scarcity, and choice for AP Microeconomics and AP Macroeconomics. The problems range from simple to complex and reinforce the College Board objectives. Solutions are included.
Preview of First Amendment

First Amendment

Created by
Mike Fladlien
This worksheet will give your students practice interpreting the First Amendment. Can a student bring candy canes to school? To what extent can schools censor student expression? This worksheet will fuel discussion on these and many of today's relevant topics.
Preview of Mikeroeconomics--Review for AP Exam

Mikeroeconomics--Review for AP Exam

Created by
Mike Fladlien
This workbook is intended to be a two-week review for the AP Micro and AP Macroeconomics exam. Intended for the busy student, the problems are easily completed with emphasis on quick concept acquistion. Answers are given for each chapter. Topics included are: Production Possibilities, Production Costs, Perfect Competition, Monopoly, Externalities, Utility, Basic Macro Concepts, and AD/AS.
Preview of Analyzing an Income Statement

Analyzing an Income Statement

Created by
Mike Fladlien
A rigorous worksheet for calculating revenues, expenses, and net income on two types of income statements. Students will calculate an income statement for a service and merchandising business and component percentages.
Preview of Production Possibilities Curve

Production Possibilities Curve

Created by
Mike Fladlien
This worksheet gives students work on developing the skills tested upon on the AP Microeconomics and AP Macroeconomics exam. Both the worksheet and answer key are included.
Preview of Fourth Amendment Casebook

Fourth Amendment Casebook

Created by
Mike Fladlien
Students often have many questions about search and seizure. Courts constantly reinterpret this amendment in light of changes in societial attitudes, demographics, and technological advances. This worksheet supplements an instructor's lecture on the Fourth Amendment by allowing students to discover meaning in precendent.
Preview of Elasticity

Elasticity

Created by
Mike Fladlien
These worksheets help both AP teachers and AP students gain content mastery for AP Microeconomics. Elasticity of demand, supply, cross elasticity, and income elasticity problems are included. Unlimited Duplication is encouraged for classroom use and review.
Preview of Basic Concepts for AP Macroeconomics

Basic Concepts for AP Macroeconomics

Created by
Mike Fladlien
This problem set will fully prepare your students for the AP Macroeconomics exam. Unemployment, inflation, the CPI, the GDP Deflator, and real interest rates are covered. Permission is granted to duplicate and distribute unlimitedly.
Preview of Mountain of Monopoly Problems

Mountain of Monopoly Problems

Created by
Mike Fladlien
Students have trouble knowing the difference between a pure monopoly, price discriminating monopoly, and a natural monopoly. With this "Mountain of Monopoly Problems" your students will be able to learn the ins and outs of AP Microeconomics as it applies to monopoly. Monopoly instruction in the worksheets so students will not have to lug a huge textbook with them. No longer will you be repeating theory that the students should know because these problems teach as they go from problem to probl
Preview of Aggregate Demand Worksheet

Aggregate Demand Worksheet

Created by
Mike Fladlien
Why does the aggregate demand curve slope downward and to the right? What exogenous events shifts the AD curve? Students will gain practice for the AP Macroeconomics exam completing these problems. As usual, answers are provided and unlimited distribution is welcome.
Preview of Long Run Supply for AP Macro

Long Run Supply for AP Macro

Created by
Mike Fladlien
Explanations and problems to prepare you for the AP macroeconomics exam. I used the FRED data base to show the natural rate of unemployment and to explain why the long run supply curve is vertical at full employment.
Preview of Unemployment Problems

Unemployment Problems

Created by
Mike Fladlien
This worksheet provides instruction for the AP Macoreconomics test on unemployment.
Preview of Closed-End Credit Installment Loans

Closed-End Credit Installment Loans

Created by
Mike Fladlien
This worksheet contains a self-teaching tutorial for the student and many rigorous problems to learn about the amount of down payment, amount financed, the total amount financed, and the finance charge.
Preview of Externalities and Market Failure

Externalities and Market Failure

Created by
Mike Fladlien
These problems will develop your economics skills in working with externalities. The problems align with AP Microeconomics content described in the Acorn Book.
Preview of Diminishing Marginal Returns

Diminishing Marginal Returns

Created by
Mike Fladlien
In this activity, students will graph diminishing marginal returns. Your students will learn how adding more and more of a variable resource to a fixed resources, yields less and less output. Your students will graph and interpret their work! Recommended for AP Microeconomics.
Preview of Calculating Chain (Series) Discounts

Calculating Chain (Series) Discounts

Created by
Mike Fladlien
A rigorous worksheet intended to teach students how to calculate chain discounts. Students work with percents in applying chain discounts to list price items.
Preview of Loanable Funds Theory and Practice

Loanable Funds Theory and Practice

Created by
Mike Fladlien
This download provides the theory of credit markets for the AP Macroeconomics exam and provides practice problems.
Preview of Short-Run Production Costs

Short-Run Production Costs

Created by
Mike Fladlien
Explanation of marginal product, average product and total product as it relates to AFC, AVC, and ATC plus problems. Do your students have difficulty seeing relationships betweent the factor market and cost curves for AP Microeconomics? This primer is intended to allow students to explore and discover these relationships.
Preview of Perfect Competition

Perfect Competition

Created by
Mike Fladlien
These problems give the student everything they need to know to master perfect competition on the AP Microeconomics exam. Students will explore profit max, loss minimizing, and shut down situations. Unlimited distribution and replication is encouraged.
Preview of Short Run Aggregate Supply

Short Run Aggregate Supply

Created by
Mike Fladlien
Practice problems for your AP Macroeconomics students. They will get instruction on the various slopes of the SRAS curve to help them master the AP exam.
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About the store

Experience

30 years teaching business classes. During this time, I've been both assistant and varsity wrestling coach and junior high wrestling coach. I currently have a mock trial team.

Teaching style

Lecture interactive and argumentative. I believe students will remember the material at a higher level and recall it faster if they have to defend their position. I often lose the agruments.

Awards & shining teacher moments

Teacher of the Year Finalist; Many local honors; Coach of the Year; Baldrige author

My own education history

Graudate of University of Norther Iowa. Teaching has taught me more than college. I'm a graduate of Bettendorf High School in 1975. I only have a B. A.

Additional biographical information

I'm an EconEdLink author and I maintain a blog for the Council for Economic Education. My personal blog is mikeroeconomics.blogspot.com please check out my iPod app, Econexamcram on the iTunes store.