What supplementary resources does CORE Econ provide besides its ebooks?

CORE Econ's site is not just a textbook library. Beyond the ebooks, it lists three named supplementary resources—Experiencing Economics, Doing Economics, and CORE Insights—plus instructor/learner materials unlocked by registering. If you are teaching or self-studying with a CORE ebook and want activities, data work, or short topical readings to go with it, these are the pages to start from.

The three main supplements

Experiencing Economics

This is the classroom-activity arm: experiments and games. Use it when you want students to generate their own data in a session and then reason from what happened, rather than only reading a result. It pairs naturally with an introductory course where a concept is easier to feel than to define.

Doing Economics

This is the applied, data-based supplement. Its stated purpose is working through policy problems using real data, so it suits assignments where students must interpret evidence and connect it to policy, not just recall theory. If your course needs a quantitative or empirical component alongside the text, this is the relevant resource.

CORE Insights

CORE Insights is described as a free, self-contained educational resource that supplements the ebooks. "Self-contained" is the operative word: it can be assigned or read on its own, which makes it useful for background reading, extension material, or topics you want to cover without pulling students through a full chapter.

Instructor and learner resources behind registration

The homepage states that you can register to access additional instructor and learner resources. The public page does not enumerate what those extras contain, so treat registration as the way to find out rather than assuming a specific set of files. Note that the site also carries a "CORE needs your help" section and a "Support CORE: Non-US residents" heading, and Stripe appears as a payment platform—so some forms of support involve payment. That is separate from the free/open-access status of the ebooks and the three supplements above.

Other companion material

The site also lists S. Bowles and W. Chen, "Allocation, Distribution & Policy: Notes, Problems, and Solutions in Microeconomics", described as a problem-based, policy-engaged way to learn microeconomic theory. If you want problem sets with solutions to accompany microeconomics teaching, this is a distinct item from the three named supplements.

How to choose

• Want in-class activities → Experiencing Economics.
• Want data and policy exercises → Doing Economics.
• Want short standalone readings → CORE Insights.
• Want problem sets with solutions for micro → the Bowles and Chen material.
• Want everything instructors get → register, since the extras are gated behind an account.

All of the ebooks themselves are described as free and open access, and the supplements are presented alongside them on the same site, so the practical first step is to open the resource page that matches your need and check whether it assumes a specific ebook as its companion.