Introductory Microeconomics for Public Policy

If you would like to have a discussion board activated, or if there are other features on Blackboard that you would like to use, please let me know. I highly recommend Desmos for graphing equations. While not a substitute for your ability to draw graphs by yourself, it is a highly useful tool for checking your work and understanding how changes in an equation change the graph. Before the beginning of the semester, I sent all registered students a link to a math assessment. The assessment is posted here, and the answers are here. At the end of the online assessment, I offer advice on whether you should consider additional preparation. If you would like to continue your math preparation, you have three options. You are welcome to use any and all of these resources.

1. Math review with Prof. Nancy Augustine, as part of orientation. You will receive an email from either Nancy Augustine or Denee Bottoms with details on this.
2. Math review with TA David Meni, Sunday August 28, 1 to 2:30 PM, PHIL 416.
3. Kahn Academy review tutorials. You will need to create a login to access these tutorials.
   1. Order of operations
      • Introduction to order of operations
      • Order of operations examples
      • Order of operations with exponents
      • Order of operations PEMDAS
      • Practice problems
   2. Exponents
      • Exponent properties with products
      • Exponent properties with quotients
      • Exponent properties with parentheses
      • Exponent properties 1
      • Exponent properties 2
      • Exponent properties 3
      • Exponent properties 4
      • Practice problems
   3. Expressions with two variables
      • What is a variable?
      • Why aren't we using the multiplication sign?
      • Expressions with two variables
      • Evaluation expressions with two variables
      • Practice problems
   4. Systems of equations with two equations and two unknowns
      • Systems of equations and graphing
      • Practice problems
      • Solving linear systems by substitution
      • Solving systems of equations by elimination
      • How to solve a system of linear equations with elimination
      • Practice problems
   5. Two step equations
      • Two step equations
      • Two step equations with decimals and fractions
      • Two step equations example
      • Practice problems
   6. Solutions and graphs of two variable equations
      • Ordered pair solutions, 1 of 2
      • Ordered pair solutions, 2 of 2
      • Testing solutions to linear equations
      • Practice problems, 1 of 2
      • Practice problems, 2 of 2
   7. Graphing with intercepts
      • Graphing using x and y intercepts
      • Intercepts from an equation, example 1
      • Intercepts from an equation, example 2
      • Practice problems
      • x-intercept of a line
      • Intercepts from a table
      • Practice problems
   8. Slope of a line
      • Finding slope from a graph
      • Slope from two points
      • Slope and rate of change
      • Slope of a line: negative slope
      • Slope from two points
      • Linear equation word problems
      • Practice problems, slope from graph
      • Practice problems, slope from two points
   9. Graphic linear equations in slope-intercept form
      • Graph from slope-intercept equation
      • Converting to slope-intercept form
      • Practice problems
   10. Constructing equations in slope-intercept form
       • Slope-intercept form problems
       • Slope-intercept equation from graph
       • Slope-intercept equation from slope and point
       • Finding a linear equation give a point and slope
       • Equation of a line from fractional slope and point
       • Slope-intercept equation from two points
       • Finding y intercept given slope and point
       • Practice problems
       • Slope-intercept from a table