Elementary
Electing a President - Short activities sorted by K-2, 3-4, and 5-6 (Teaching Children Mathematics)
Election Mathematics - Short activities sorted by K-2, 3-4, and 5-6 (Teaching Children Mathematics)
Middle School
Presidential Playing Field - Lesson exploring electoral votes from 1888 to 2000. (Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School)
Getting into the Electoral College - Unit exploring the electoral college, focusing on percentages, ratios, area, problem-solving and reasoning skills. (Illuminations)
What Percentage Does it Take to Win a Vote? - Exploring elections and percents in a school setting. (Figure This!)
High School
Predicting the Presidential Election - Least-squares linear regression lesson to predict the 2004 presidential election. (Mathematics Teacher)
How Many Votes? - Mathematical modeling lesson to determine the fewest number of votes necessary in order to be elected president. (Mathematics Teacher)
Will the Best Candidate Win? - Lesson in which students explore advantages and disadvantages of alternative voting methods. (Mathematics Teacher)
Minimum Fraction of the Popular Vote to Elect the President - Polya's general solution and discussion of implications in high school applications. (Mathematics Teacher)
Getting into the Electoral College - Unit exploring the electoral college, focusing on percentages, ratios, area, problem-solving and reasoning skills. (Illuminations)
Online Tools
State Data Map - Interactive US map that shades the states proportionately according to population, electoral votes, or data the user inputs (Illuminations)
Electoral Calculator - Predict who will win the next election by entering which party will win each state. (National Archives)
Math and Voting - See how your vote influences the outcome of the election using different methods. (American Statistical Association)
General Information - Information about elections in the US, other voting methods, and the math of voting methods. (NCTM)
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