For teachers in November centres, please note the Paper 1 pre-release statement was uploaded on My IB in late July. The direct link to download this document is here. You can bookmark this site page on InThinking to access ATL Activities and top tips for the OneWay Ltd (OWL) case study here. Currently, there are several ATL Activities to help your students to get to know the case study. These activities include:

• Key terms from the pre-release statement

• Comprehension quiz

• Getting to know the context

• Interactive True or False quiz

• Interactive Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) quiz

Case studies are integral to the teaching of Business Management, providing real-world contexts to the concepts and contents in the syllabus. Two recent updates to the website include case studies about Crowdstrike, which was responsible for the global IT outage on Friday 19th July 2024, and Dayuse.com that uses a highly creative way to increase capacity utilization at hotels across the world. The Crowdstrike case study can be accessed here under Unit 5.7 Crisis management and contingency planning (HL). The Dayuse.com case study can be accessed here for Unit 5.6 Production planning (HL).

Other updates to the website during the past month include:

• A new set of interactive multiple choice questions for Unit 1.5 economies and diseconomies of scale has been added here. There are 20 auto-marked questions with answers provided to support student learning of this challenging topic in the syllabus.

• Additional exam practice questions for Unit 3.5 (Profitability ratios) have been added here. These are aimed at developing student's analytical skills when examining the financial accounts of a business.

• Additional exam practice questions for Unit 3.8 (Average rate of return) have been added here. This includes testing students' understanding in the inclusion of an asset's scrap value when calculating the ARR ratio.

• With the conclusion of the May 2024 examinations, additional EE research questions (from essays that were recently graded as an A or B) have been added here to provide students with further guidance and examples of what makes a good EE RQ.

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• Dynamic (weekly) updates ensure InThinking IGCSE Economics never stands still – subscribers know that more great teaching and learning materials are continually added to the site, as highlighted in our monthly Newsletter.

• Creative and rich classroom activities are what that drives us and our students: provoking inquiry, inspiring a lifelong love of the subject, and providing opportunities for extended discussions and engagement.

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At the end of July 2024, there were 2,389 registered teachers and 14,458 students from across 115 different countries using the InThinking Business Management website (that's more than 70% of all IB World Schools that offer the DP Business Management course). Content on the website now exceeds 1,850,000 words - to put this into context, that's more than 345 Extended Essays(!) whilst the 762-page 5th edn IBID Press textbook is around 360,000 words. So, there are plenty of resources to engage and support teachers and students alike.

Please note that your IB Business Management students can have completely free access to the website once you have activated Student Access. You can also register other teachers in your school to gain access to the website, which is updated every week, 52 weeks a year. The annual subscription therefore represents extremely good value for money and will save you hundreds of hours of planning: