A flexible teaching companion for Can't We Just Print More Money by Rupal Patel and Jack Meaning

This downloadable guide helps you get the most out of Can't We Just Print More Morey? with your students, whether you use it as background reading, a structured reading project, or a pick-and-mix bank of resources to dip into. Everything is designed to work flexibly alongside the book, so you can direct your students' reading in whatever way suits your class.

The programme aims to:

• Guide students through non-fiction reading

• Draw their attention to useful ideas and concepts

• Develop vocabulary

• Build up contextual knowledge

• Develop a shared canon of common reference points

• See the big ideas of some of the topics we teach

What's included

Chapter vocabulary and references

• Splits the tricky language in each chapter into technical vocabulary, useful for economics, and other useful vocabulary, often the unfamiliar tier-two words students simply may not have come across

• Includes the idioms and colloquial references in the book, so that students can get the most out of reading

• Can be used as a reference to dip into while reading, or worked through first so students prepare each chapter properly and arrive ready to read with confidence

Chapter questions

• Reading questions for every single chapter, drawing students' attention to the points that matter most

• Pull out the key ideas of individual economists

• Available in a write-on version and a condensed, low-print version to keep photocopying costs down

Chapter summaries

• Space for students to write their own summary of each chapter

• Lets them step back and capture the big picture in their own words

• Gives you another flexible way to set the reading, large scale or small scale

World map

• A map for students to collate every geographical reference in the book

• Builds their geographical understanding alongside a sense of place for the ideas they are reading about

• Helps anchor abstract ideas to somewhere real

Timeline

• A timeline for placing the book's events and ideas in order

• Helps students stop seeing events in isolation and start seeing how one thing led to another

• Gives a clear sense of sequence and development

Log of key thinkers

• A log of the economists, philosophers, and other important figures recognised in the book

• Listed in order of birth so students can see how economic thought has developed over time

• Helps students see economics as an evolving subject

Full teacher answers

• Detailed answers to all tasks, based on what students will have read