For Teachers & Instructors
Free microeconomics resources you can use tomorrow
Interactive graphs, calculators, practice quizzes, and an AP Micro review kit for IB Econ, AP Micro, A-Level, and college intro courses. Link any of them from your LMS or slide deck — no account required to use them. Built by a PhD economist on what cognitive science says actually makes things stick.
Use this in class this week
One ready-made resource for the five most-taught intro topics. Open in class, or copy the link into your LMS.
| Teaching topic | Use in class | Assign after class |
|---|---|---|
| Supply & demand | Interactive curve-shift demo→ | 5-question practice quiz→ |
| Price ceilings & floors | Binding/non-binding demo→ | Price-controls practice→ |
| Elasticity | Elasticity calculator→ | Elasticity topic + practice→ |
| Surplus & deadweight loss | Surplus calculator→ | DWL calculator + worked example→ |
| Monopoly | Monopoly DWL explainer→ | Monopoly topic + practice→ |
Copy & paste for your syllabus or LMS
Two ready-to-paste blurbs. Edit the tone, swap the link, ship it.
Syllabus blurb
Optional learning resource — Econ Academy (econ.academy) is a free microeconomics practice platform with interactive graphs, short explanations, and spaced-repetition review. Students may use it to review concepts from class and prepare for quizzes and exams. No payment or credit card is required. Built by a PhD economist.
LMS announcement
This week's practice — try the interactive activity at [paste link]. It includes a graph you can manipulate, a short worked example, and five practice questions with explanations. Free, no account required to do the activity. Create a free account at econ.academy if you want the platform to remember what you've practised and schedule spaced reviews.
How this compares to what your students already use
- Khan Academy is a video library — passive watching, no graph manipulation, no spaced review.
- MRU Interactive Practice is great for problem sets but skews toward macro and policy scenarios; not built around interactive graph manipulation.
- Textbook publisher platforms cost students money and lock content to one textbook.
- Econ Academy is free, browser-only, built around active graph manipulation and FSRS spaced repetition, and aligned with a standard intro micro / AP Micro curriculum.
Why we built this
The most common feedback we hear from instructors is that intro micro is over-taught through slides and under-taught through practice. Students watch a lecture, nod, and then freeze on the exam. Econ Academy is built around interactive graphs, retrieval practice, and spaced reviews — the three things the learning-science literature actually supports. See the science page for the methods and citations.
Full resource list
Everything that is currently linkable. All free, forever.
Coming soon
Use Econ Academy with your whole class
We're building share-with-class— one join code your students enter to land on your class workspace, with per-student progress, weak-topic reports, and a clean way to assign interactive practice. Still free for everyone.
Join the waitlist to be notified the day it ships, and to help shape it — teachers on the waitlist get early access plus a 15-minute call to tell us what you need.
Join the teacher waitlist →Frequently asked questions
Is Econ Academy really free for teachers and students?
Yes. Econ Academy is fully free for both teachers and students. No payment is ever required, no credit card, no trial that converts. Every interactive graph, calculator, practice quiz, and topic page is free forever.
Can I use Econ Academy with my whole class?
Yes. Today: share any resource link with your students — no account required to use most of them. Coming soon: share-with-class (class rosters, single join code, per-student progress tracking, weak-topic reports). Join the teacher waitlist to be notified when it ships.
Does Econ Academy align with AP Microeconomics or IB Economics?
Yes. The curriculum maps to the AP Microeconomics Course and Exam Description (Units 1–6) and covers all major IB Economics microeconomics topics. There is also a dedicated AP Micro review kit students can use the night before the exam.
Can I use Econ Academy with my LMS (Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Google Classroom)?
Yes. Every topic, calculator, and practice page has a permanent URL you can post in your LMS announcement, syllabus, or assignment. Copy-paste blurbs for syllabus and LMS announcements are provided on this page.
Do students need an account to use it?
No. Students can use most resources — interactive graphs, calculators, practice quizzes — with no account. Creating a free account adds progress tracking, mastery indicators, and FSRS spaced-repetition reviews.
Who built Econ Academy?
Aras Zirgulis, PhD, Professor of Economics at ISM University. The platform is built around interactive graphs, retrieval practice, and spaced repetition — the three things the learning-science literature most directly supports.
Get in touch
If you teach intro micro and there is a specific resource you wish existed — a topic page, a calculator, a practice set — tell us. We prioritize instructor requests because if a resource helps one classroom it usually helps a hundred.
Reach out at arazir@ism.lt. Include your institution and what you teach — we read every email.
Built by Aras Zirgulis, PhD — Professor of Economics, ISM University.