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MACROECONOMICS

SIXTH EDITION

N. GREGORY MANKIW
PowerPoint Slides by Ron Cronovich
2007 Worth Publishers, all rights reserved

Main Table of Contents

Welcome Whats new for the 6th
edition

If equations, symbols, or
special characters do not display correctly

General info for all users Getting started Common & useful
PowerPoint tasks

Reporting typos, problems Useful links (requires active

internet connection)

Teaching tips that actually

work

Recommended software
add-ons and utilities

About the author

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Welcome
The Instructor PowerPoint presentations of Mankiws Macroeconomics, 6e, can make your job easier. They are essentially pre-packaged (but easily customizable) lectures of most of the material in the textbook. They contain graphs with effective animation, attractive charts of supplementary data to motivate and complement textbook material, and in-class exercises and discussion questions to help make your class an active learning experience for your students. To help you get the most from your experience, this file contains instructions and tips on using these PowerPoints. You neednt read the entire file. In slide show mode, just use your mouse to click on the topics that interest you. The bottom of each slide contains a link back to the table of contents. Only basic knowledge of PowerPoint is required. You will quickly pick up the rest as you use these files in your teaching.

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Whats new for the 6th edition

If you taught with the PowerPoints I created for the 5th
edition of Macroeconomics, you will find the PowerPoints for the 6th edition to be very familiar, with a few important changes: All material has been updated to the latest available data. Many chapters have additional data, especially time-series graphs, to support the material from the textbook. New slides covering material new to the 6th edition of the textbook. Lots of minor improvements to formatting, text, animation. Animation and slide transitions are now more consistent, as not to distract from the content.
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General info for all users

Embedded lecture notes

Before presenting each chapter

What to expect when presenting the slides Why these PowerPoints do not include everything in
the textbook

Your feedback matters

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Embedded lecture notes

I have embedded lecture notes in some of the slides.
They will not appear in your presentation to students, but you can easily view or print them for your own use.

These notes are intended to help facilitate your presentation

to students. They contain additional explanations of the material, suggestions for class discussions or in-class exercises, the source (often the exact web URL) for most of the data in the slides, references to specific pages of the textbook, and so forth.

For reference during your lecture, you can easily print out
"notes pages," which contain these notes and copies of the slides they accompany.

Click here to learn how to view/print the embedded notes.

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Before presenting each chapter

Look over the embedded lecture notes; some of them

may be helpful.

View the whole file in Slide Show mode to see the

timing of the animations and transitions.

Decide whether you want to hide any of the slides

from your presentation, or unhide any of the hidden slides to include them in your presentation.

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What to expect when presenting the slides

If your students can print out your PowerPoint presentations
after class, then they may be less inclined to take notes during class. Please encourage them to take notes anyway: The process of note-taking during class helps improve comprehension and retention (even if the notes taken during class are never again used!!).

If your students can print out your PowerPoint presentations

before class (and bring them), then, students can write on their hardcopies while you are going over the material. This is handy for them. However, they do not get the benefit of writing out the graphs completely by hand. So please consider deleting some of the graphs or whatever else you think students should write down as you present the material in class.
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Why these PowerPoints dont include everything in the textbook

These PowerPoints cover most but not all material in the

textbook. Including everything from the textbook was just not possible, and instructors do not have enough class time to present everything from the textbook.

The slides show the kinds of information a professor might

write on the blackboard. The slides do not show everything there is to know about a topic, just as a professor would not write on the blackboard every word she says to the class.

Please let me know if you feel that I should have included a

particular section or appendix from the text that wasn't included. I will consider adding it in the next annual update of these files.

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Your feedback matters!!

I will be doing annual revisions to these PowerPoints to
update the data, fix any typos, and to incorporate the best suggestions I receive from users like yourself.

If you find any typos or other problems, or if you have any

suggestions or feedback that might be helpful, please email me at: roncron@unlv.nevada.edu

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Getting started
Requirements: Windows 98 or higher PowerPoint 97 or higher
(Strongly recommended: PowerPoint 2003 or higher) The Arial, Tahoma and Symbol fonts (they come standard with Windows and are almost certainly on your computer right now) LCD projector or large monitor to show presentations in your class.

Optional: Active internet connection Software utilities/plug-ins described here

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Getting started
Copy all of the PowerPoint files -- and this file with user
instructions -- to a new folder on your hard drive.

Mac users:
I expect these slides will work fine on a Mac, but they have not been tested on a Mac. Please let me know if they work for you.

Users of other presentation software:

If you use Corel Presentations or similar software instead of PowerPoint, I expect most of the functionality and features in these slides will be preserved when you import them into your software. However, I have not tested these slides with other software, so Id be grateful if you could email me to let me know how it goes.
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Common and useful PowerPoint tasks

Embedded lecture notes: How to view them on your screen How to print lecture notes Printing handouts of your PowerPoint presentations, or
creating printable files of them to post at your website

How to hide slides to omit them from your presentation Import text, graphics, documents, pictures from other
programs or the web

How to modify or turn off the animation effects

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Viewing embedded lecture notes

To view embedded
lecture notes, select Notes Page from the View dropdown menu.

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Printing embedded lecture notes

To display the Print dialog
box, press CTRL-P (or choose Print from the File drop-down menu).

Where it says
Print what: choose Notes Pages

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Printing your PowerPoint presentations

You may wish to give your students
hardcopies of your PowerPoint presentations. You can print three slides per page and leave room for students to take notes.

To do this, press CTRL-P to display

the Print dialog box, or click on Print from the drop-down File menu. Choose handouts under Print what: I suggest you check the grayscale box.

If you have Adobe or other software to write PDF files, you can
print these handouts to a PDF file to post at your website.
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How to hide and unhide slides

If you wish to omit certain slides from your presentation,
you need not delete them from the file; you can hide them, so they dont display in slide-show mode.

Select Hide Slide from the drop-down Slide Show menu.

The PowerPoints for
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Import information from other programs

It is usually easy to import data, graphs, photos, text, and
other information from other programs.

In many cases, just open the file in the other program, select
the object or text, copy it, then paste it into the desired location in your PowerPoint file.

To insert a picture into your PowerPoint file, choose the

Insert drop-down menu, then Picture, then From file to get a dialog box that allows you to select the file from anywhere on your hard drive.

The web is a great source for photos and graphics. In your

browser, right-click on any image, and select save picture as or save image as and specify a filename and folder on your hard drive. Please be sure to obey all copyright laws.
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Modifying or turning off the animations

The animation effects govern the order in which elements on
the slide appear, and the way in which they appear.

You can change the animations, or turn them off.

On the Slide Show drop-down menu, choose Custom

animation and a dialog box will pop up.

You will see four tabs, the first two are labeled:
Order & timing and effects. Click order & timing to modify the order in which elements appear on the screen.

Click effects, then uncheck the boxes next to the elements

that you wish not be animated. Or, highlight an element and change the animation effect.

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Recommended software add-ons, utilities

There are several software add-ons and utilities that can greatly
enhance your experience working with these PowerPoints.

Disclaimer: I am making these recommendations as a

colleague. I have absolutely no interest, financial or otherwise, in the companies that produce these products. My recommendations are not endorsements by Worth Publishers or any of its associates; neither they nor I take any responsibility for your satisfaction with these products.

That said, as a professor and PowerPoint user, I recommend

that you check out the following: MathType equation editor Software to create PDF files of your PowerPoint Presentations
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MathType Equation Editor

It's what I used to create all of the equations in the Mankiw
Instructor PowerPoints.

It is a more powerful version of the equation editors that

come with Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, and other popular packages. Its a mature product, and very unlikely to crash your computer or cause other headaches.

You can download a fully-functional trial version from

www.mathtype.com. If you do not register it in 30 days, it will become MathType Lite - a version with advanced features disabled.

If you like it enough to consider purchasing, ask them

about educational discounts.
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Software to create PDF files

Either of the following packages makes it very easy to
create a PDF file containing your PowerPoint presentations, which you can post at your website for your students to download and print, or email to your students.

Adobe Acrobat www.adobe.com

The regular price is expensive, but there is very affordable educational pricing ($50, last I heard).

FinePrint PDF Factory www.fineprint.com

A much cheaper alternative to Adobe Acrobat. In my experience, it sometimes works better than Adobe.

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If equations, symbols, or special characters do not display correctly

These PowerPoint files have been tested on different computers running various versions of Windows and PowerPoint. However, the files are complex, with intricate animation and special symbols and characters, and users have many different configurations of hardware and software, so it is possible that a few of the 900 or so slides will not display correctly on every users computer.

Possible causes & solutions: Your computer does not have all of the fonts that these PowerPoint files use, or some of the characters in a font on your computer are corrupted. Solution: Install the fonts from your Windows cd-rom or from microsoft.com Inexplicable, idiosyncratic, maddening computer gliches. No solution, just have to try different things, such as manually editing the symbols: try replacing the one that appears incorrectly with the one that is supposed to appear. Return to main TOC slide 26

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Teaching tips that actually work

Improve learning in your lectures

Improve classroom participation

Find and fix problems before they compound Why you should assign homework

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Improve learning in your lectures

Tons of research on teaching and learning has shown there are
ways (some very simple and low-cost to you) to increase the effectiveness of lectures. A good way to enhance your lectures is to pause roughly every 20 minutes and give students a question or problem to work on related to material you've just covered. This gives students immediate application or reinforcement of the material as its being covered. It also breaks up a lecture into smaller chunks that match the attention span of most college students. In most of the PowerPoint chapters, I have inserted in-class exercises or discussion questions at appropriate points. Please feel free to add more, or edit the existing ones to better match your approach to the material. Doing such activities increases student learning, particularly below the 10th percentile (the top 10% will learn no matter how the material is presented).
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Improve classroom participation

Many instructors break up a lecture and encourage

active participation by posing a question or problem to the class, and asking for students to volunteer their responses. But many instructors find that the same few students raise their hands, and would like to improve class participation. Here are some suggestions:
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Improve classroom participation

Instead of asking for responses immediately after
posing the question, give students a few moments to think about the question. Perhaps suggest that they write their answer (or whatever comes to mind) on a piece of scratch paper. This helps "level the playing field" for those students who aren't the quickest to think of answers. More students will likely raise their hands. Also, the average quality of response will be better, as each student will have had time to think through his or her answer before sharing it with the class.
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Improve classroom participation

Additionally, after giving students a few moments to jot
down their answers to the question posed, pair them up, and have the students run their answers by their partners. This has several benefits: It increases confidence--students have an opportunity to verbally rehearse their response before sharing it with the class, and their partner may give them positive feedback about their answer---and this extra confidence is what many students need to be comfortable sharing their ideas in front of the whole class. Second, every student in the class---even those that do not volunteer their answers to the whole group---will at least have had an opportunity to think through their response and run it by one other person.
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Find and fix problems before they compound

Here's what we would like to avoid:

Students don't understand something we cover in class, but give us no indication that they are lost, or (perhaps because they wish our approval) use body language that suggests confidence and comprehension (you know, making eye contact, nodding their heads slightly when we glance their way). So, we assume they understood it, and move on to new material. Unbeknownst to us, they struggle with the new material because it builds on the earlier material that they didn't learn. Then, they take an exam, and we are shocked that so many of them didn't do as well as we'd expected or hoped. continued
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Find and fix problems before they compound

Here's how to avoid it:

Allow two minutes at the end of every class for students to write their answers to the following two questions: "What was the most important thing you learned today?" and "What was the 'muddiest point' in today's class?". Have students hand in these 'minute papers' as they leave the room, but be clear that you do not wish them to sign their names, and you will do no handwriting analysis to determine who said what, no matter what they write. After class, read through the papers (this really doesn't take long, even if your class is large). Patterns in their responses will jump out at you quickly. This is a very low-cost way to get a sense of what students are getting and what they're having trouble with. (continued)
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Find and fix problems before they compound

Some professors begin each class by spending a couple

minutes addressing the most common issues that students raised in their minute papers from the previous class session. The minute paper allows you to find out---and fix--any problems in their learning as these problems occur, which enables students to better comprehend subsequent material you present to them. This activity also shows students that you care about how they are doing in your class.

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Why you should assign homework

The benefits are high:

Homework exercises, such as the excellent end-ofchapter problems and applications in Greg's book, give students immediate reinforcement and application of the concepts covered in your class and in the assigned chapters. This makes it easier for them to understand subsequent material you cover in class.

They prepare students for your exams.

They give you information about what the students are

getting and what they're having trouble with, and about the effort students are expending to learn the material.

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Why you should assign homework

The costs to you can be low:

Carefully grade a randomly selected subset of the

assigned problems, then just look over the remaining problems to gauge the effort level.

Select your homework exercises from the Problems

and Applications at the end of each chapter instead of making up your own. When you return graded homeworks to students, simply copy the relevant pages from the Solutions Manual to create a detailed answer key.

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About the author

Ph.D., Economics, Univ. of Michigan, 1995 B.A., Economics, Summa Cum Laude,
American University, 1988

Currently: Assoc. Professor of Economics,

University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Conducts workshops on teaching with

PowerPoint at UNLVs Teaching and Learning Center and at various conferences.
Ron Cronovich at Yosemite National Park UNLV Distinguished Teaching Award (1999, 2005)

College of Business Teacher of the Year (1996, 1997, 2003). Whos Who Among Americas Teachers (1998, 2002, 2004) Contact: roncron@unlv.nevada.edu
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