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Nowhere to Go but Up? Analyzing Economic Measures in a Downturn

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Teaching ideas based on New York Times content.

Overview | How do we know when the economy is in a recession? How do key economic indicators perform in a downturn? In this lesson, students create graphs of various economic measurements, using quantitative and qualitative reasoning skills to compare, contrast and correlate the performance of measures like gross domestic product, unemployment and personal income. Read more…