The whole course on one page, band by band: every unit with its chapters, sections and numbered lessons. Tap a lesson to open it. A tick means you got all three checks right.
Drawn scene: a student seen from behind at a lamplit table one evening, a paycheck and a work apron on one side and a stack of study books on the other, with a road forking toward a diner and a school through the window
The storyTwenty-Four Hours — On a Sunday night a Chicago junior adds up everything she wants to do on Monday and discovers the day is seven hours short.
Drawn scene: a farmers’ market at golden hour, striped awnings over crates of fruit and a lemonade stand with a hand-lettered price board, shoppers seen from behind
The storyThe Winter the Pumps Ran Dry — In the 1970s, American drivers waited in lines that stretched around the block, and the reason was not only a lack of oil.
Drawn scene: a small print shop at night with a screen-printing press and stacks of folded shirts under a hanging lamp, while a big-box store’s lit sign glows far off across a dark parking lot
The storyThe Numbers on the Napkin — A line cook quits her job, buys a used food truck, and learns in one month that revenue and profit are not the same thing.
The storyTwenty Pizza Places and One Phone Tower — A student moves from a Chicago neighborhood full of choices to a small town with only one phone company, and her monthly bill tells the rest of the story.
Drawn scene: the Chicago skyline at dusk seen across the river, office windows lit, rooftop beacons climbing from left to right like a rising line, their lights doubled in the water
The storyCounting a Town for One Year — A class in a small Illinois town tries to total up everything the town produced in twelve months, and discovers that counting is harder than it sounds.
The storyGrandpa's Dollar Sixty — A grandfather remembers his first paycheck, and his granddaughter sets out to learn whether $1.60 an hour was a good wage.
The storyThe Signs in the Windows — Two walks down the same downtown street, two years apart, tell the story of a whole economy in the space of six blocks.
The storyWhere the Twelve Hundred Dollars Went — One spring, a deposit landed in millions of bank accounts at once, and each family's choice about it added up to a national experiment.
Drawn scene: the columned stone front of a central bank at night, warm gold light glowing between the columns above the steps, with a few coins resting in the foreground
Drawn scene: a towboat pushing a line of grain barges down the Illinois River under a gold evening sky, with stacked shipping containers on a far dock and a steel bridge overhead
The storyThe Number on the Airport Board — A family lands in Mexico City with $800 and discovers that how much it buys depends on a number that changed while they were in the air.
The course follows the standard high-school economics sequence — microeconomics in grades 9–10, macroeconomics and the world economy in 11–12 — as units, chapters, sections and numbered lessons, in original text written at each band’s reading level. Every lesson starts from a situation a student can picture, walks through a worked example with real numbers, and ends with three checks. Where economists disagree, the lesson says so and gives both sides.
Progress ticks live on this device only. Print any unit page for a paper copy.