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Mateer & Coppock’s unmatched problem-solving approach shines brighter through engaging and motivational features that illuminate core concepts for all students in a supportive, accessible, and low-stakes environment.

Interactive Activities, brief integrated Videos, and Dynamic Data Figures help students learn more actively and more efficiently.
Check Your Understanding questions with rich feedback motivate students and build confidence in their learning.
Embedded Dynamic Data Figures let students engage with applications of key course concepts and explore the significance of important data.
Instructors can encourage student accountability by assigning chapter readings through easy-to-use assignment tools and LMS integration.

InQuizitive

InQuizitive is Norton’s award-winning, easy-to-use adaptive learning tool that incentivizes and personalizes the learning experience for students and helps them master—and retain—key learning objectives. With content specifically designed for the Mateer and Coppock textbook, InQuizitive maintains the relatable and visual approach of the text, incorporating images and graphs from the book to help students gain an understanding of course concepts. It has the added benefit of incentivizing students to study by providing a self-regulating check on their perceptions of the course material.

Through a variety of question types, answer-specific feedback, and game-like elements such as the ability to adjust their confidence level for each question, students are motivated to keep working until they’ve mastered the material.
Questions incorporate visuals from the book while Office Hours videos in the feedback provide a powerful framework for challenging concepts.
The convenience of LMS integration saves you time by allowing InQuizitive scores to report directly to your LMS gradebook.

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Smartwork

Smartwork is Norton’s easy-to-use online homework system that helps students become better problem solvers. In Smartwork for Mateer and Coppock, students are asked to complete a range of questions that reinforce and expand on their comprehension of the material.

Graphing questions mimic the hand-drawing graphing experience as students draw and shift curves and points.
Economics in the News questions help students relate real-world news stories to economic concepts
Practice What You Know questions expand upon the Practice What You Know boxes in the text, and FRED-based questions give students practice with real data.

Norton Teaching Tools

Norton Teaching Tools are your first stop when looking for creative, diverse resources to refresh your syllabus or design a new one. Dynamic and experienced instructors have created content that is aligned with chapter topics and organized by activity type, making it easily sortable. The site also features tips and best practices for assigning Norton’s digital learning tools and addressing the most common course challenges. Example content includes the following:

Core Skills Pathways walk students through applications of economic concepts to real-world decisions in the workplace. Applying these concepts helps students build skills and master the topics from the book, preparing them for their future career and demonstrating that anyone can make decisions like an economist.
Taking It Online Activities are some of the most popular active learning assignments from Norton, adapted for use in online and hybrid classrooms.
Lecture PowerPoint slides are fully customizable and feature images and bulleted chapter outlines for in-class presentation. The Lecture PowerPoint images include alt-text, and the slides are designed to be accessible for all students, including students who use screen readers.