What are the consequences and costs of inflation? What is CPI, and how do we calculate it? This resource answers these questions in an organized and in-depth manner, and also includes a worksheet of follow-up questions designed for an educational setting.

Concepts

deflation, inflation

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Additional Tags

inflation, deflation, price stability, social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• This would be easy to administer as an in-class or homework assignment to be followed up by discussion

Pros

• Recently published, including references to popular culture
• Includes answer key, extension activities, and graphs that help to illustrate concept

Cons

• None

Common Core

RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.4