Dr. Tremendous: interactive economics teaching tools

A tutor that won’t hand over the answer. It walks students to the diagnosis one Socratic question at a time.

Two tools that work together: adaptive practice serves questions at each student’s level, and a Socratic tutor walks them through whatever they miss, without handing over the answer.

Draft five North Carolina commodities and predict where the state ranks nationally, then explore a searchable big board of ~30 commodities, an interactive county map, and a myth-or-fact quiz. Every rank is pulled straight from USDA data.

Watch variance in Y get sorted into bins for each predictor. Crank the correlation and draw new samples to see coefficients swing, and flip sign, while R² holds steady. Multicollinearity, made visible.

Five levels of curve-dragging, from classifying shifts up to simultaneous shocks and real news scenarios. Drag the curves, watch equilibrium move, check your reasoning.

Five towns, one rumor. Plant a whisper of drought in a trader's ear, then watch supply shift on belief alone, before you've even decided whether the drought is real. Three rounds: the Whisper, the Washout, and Your Valley, wide open.

The five-spin fast-food draft, turned into an economics lesson. After each pick you rank what you turned down, and the game names your true opportunity cost: the single next-best thing given up, never the whole pile. A round-two "taste test" even checks whether your stated ranking matched what you actually chose.

Open the game in two or more browser tabs: each tab is a fishing boat on one shared pond. Fish freely and the stock crashes for everyone; then a council votes a catch limit and you find out whether a rule on paper survives the temptation to break it. The tragedy of the commons, played across your own browser. Best on a laptop with a few tabs open.

Sort each cost as paid-out or given-up, compute accounting vs. economic profit, then reveal an animated waterfall and a balance scale that weighs the venture against the owner's next-best life. Opportunity cost, made visible.

A bridge is out and costs are climbing. Interview four AI stakeholders, build an evidence board, watch the market model shift, then write a policy memo an AI instructor assesses on economic reasoning.

Pick a claim about an agricultural minimum wage. The board flips from quiet to illuminated, showing who benefits, who bears pressure, who has mixed incentives, and whose concerns are missing.

Convene a four-person advisory panel on an ag-policy fight, brief them, and watch them disagree on your behalf. Question any panelist, let another seat chime in, then have the Chair read the room, and walk out with a deliberation record.

Estimate a fair cropland cash rent several ways at once: tenant's residual, share of gross revenue, and county benchmark. Then see where the landowner's floor and the tenant's ceiling leave room to deal. NC county rent data built in.

Build a per-acre budget for corn, soybeans, or wheat, then stress-test it: break-evens, tornado sensitivity, and price & yield scenarios, all charted. Pre-filled with NC State enterprise-budget numbers.

A host-run Jeopardy board for practice: twelve rounds plus a potpourri and tiebreaker, buzz-in timer, steal logic, live scoreboard, and an explain panel for every clue. Project it and run a session.

You chair the House Ag Committee as the farm bill opens: mark up Title I, whip a coalition, weather CBO scores and shock events, then survive a roll-call vote and earn an ending. Act I · Committee Markup; future acts: floor debate, conference.

Spin five fast-food chains, draft one item per slot, and dodge the sold-out machine, then get graded and share your tray. Secretly, it's the economist's optimal-stopping problem, with fries.

An unofficial fan-made rewatch dashboard: part box score, part vibe check, part Caitlin Clark assist audit. The formula is on the page, because of course it is.