<p>So, I'm taking AP Micro online. It's just so dry and hard to get myself involved in it though, plus it's online and so easy to do something else. </p>
<p>Did anybody else take it online? Or got any advice on how to make it more interesting?</p>
<p>Are you taking it on FLVS?</p>
<p>Yep, my teacher is Mr Crain</p>
<p>Ah, I love Mr. Crain! I had Mrs. Arteche, though. Personally, I found AP Micro to be extremely interesting (even with the immature theme of the Macro Islands), so I don’t know what to tell you. Honestly, just bear through it. Close AIM, turn off your cell phone, and concentrate. I did a lesson a day and was able to finish in about two months.</p>
<p>I do find it kind of interesting, but specifically the reading gets me. The whole scrolling down to look at the ebook kills me.</p>
<p>I’m about to print out the pages I need to read and see if that will help me at all</p>
<p>I have a dual monitor setup, so I used to drag my browser onto the second monitor (which is larger) to read the textbook.</p>
<p>Trust me, this textbook is really good for an eBook… There’sa search function. The AP Gov textbook is annoying to work with and has no search function (!!!).</p>
<p>rk33 –</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, you will read the first 400-500 pages of the Krugman/Wells textbook for AP Microeconomics. That’s an awful lot to print off. I suggest adjusting your monitor to read it online; it’s not a bad textbook either.</p>
<p>It’s definitely not 400 to 500 pages. Random bits and pieces are taken from the first 400-500, but you don’t have to read/understand 400 pages. There is absolutely nothing using real-life examples on the AP exam, and the book is full of those, so you can skip over a lot.</p>
<p>I meant print out the 20 pages I need to read when I need to read them. I guess eventually I’d be at 400.</p>
<p>BTW, whats the difference between Macro and Micro? I’m taking Macro during the school year and was wondering, since they use the same ebook and all</p>
<p>Macro focuses on National things like aggregate demand and aggregate supply, GDP, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, the Exchange Market, Loanable Funds, etc. </p>
<p>Micro focuses on types of market structures, maximizing profit/utility, minimizing costs, factor markets, etc. </p>
<p>hope that helps explain the difference.</p>
<p>However, macro and micro overlap on stuff like the PPF, demand/supply, and opportunity cost.</p>
<p>Oh, so is Micro easier? It sounds more basic…</p>
<p>Also Keasbey Nights- (good name) did you do the webinar things when you took it? They seem to be a review of the whole module, which is awesome. I can do so much better looking at a screen and hearing a voice than forcing myself to scroll down and back up again</p>
<p>For me, micro is easier, as it is more math based (i’m a math person) and the graphs for the marginal _______ are the derivatives of total _________. So the graphs for Micro were easier for me to memorize because I could derive them. I would say micro is more logic, and macro, although it is logical, it is much more memorizing.</p>
<p>There are not really any number crunching things in either, but in micro, I would say you have to be able to see mathematical things. </p>
<p>Gosh, I am ranting here, I don’t know if that made any sense.</p>
<p>Both classes are incredibly easy. Macro is technically easier (it uses far fewer graphs, and the material is just easier), but I absolutely loved micro and had no problem with the graphs. To me, learning the four kinds of market structures (micro) was much more fun than learning about monetarists (macro).</p>
<p>Don’t let brahms91 fool you, there’s almost no math required for either class. I actually felt like there was more math needed for macro, but we’re compaing very low levels. Unless I’m mistaken, all I remember calculating was elasticity and taxes in micro. There were a few things to calculate in macro (I won’t get into it). However, economics goes hand-in-hand with calculus. Although it’s not used at the AP level, having a backing in calculus will help you tremendously. Besides what brahms91 said about total/marginal, there is also a concept involving the point of inflection, a concept involving kinked demand, etc.</p>
<p>Well, I know that there is hardly any math, I said that there weren’t really any “number crunching problems” and I would say both are very easy, I just found the graphs in micro easier to memorize b/c I could derive them (just basic graph sketching learned in the 2nd week of calculus). Sorry, I didn’t mean for it to sound like it was hard. The only part on micro that makes it seem like there is more math than macro, is when you have two products, and you try to maximize utility with a limited amount of money. </p>
<p>But, Both are very easy. I just found micro more fun.</p>
<p>Heh, no worries, I was just making sure that rk33 wasn’t freaked out.</p>
<p>I agree with brahms in that micro is more fun.</p>