The testing thing can be really horrible. This was my first year teaching AP Microeconomics. Students depend upon doing well on that test, and the college boa

The testing thing can be really horrible. This was my first year teaching AP Microeconomics. Students depend upon doing well on that test, and the college board has crammed the class full of a whole lot of topics. I had a group of students who were in love with game theory even before the class, and as an individual I love the topic, too. But all the time I could spend on it was half a class period, and only the very boring cases involved in analyzing oligopoly behavior... Because we had to get back to all the edge cases in monopolistic competition and practicing how to write answers to free response questions in the very formulaic ways that we can be sure the graders will give credit for. I feel like I was forced to teach a less engaging and useful class than I'd have liked to.