Predicting the Vote: Analyzing Election Data
What do polling numbers and other statistics reveal about races for political office? How can we use data and quantitative tools to analyze and understand elections? In this lesson, students apply both quantitative and qualitative reasoning skills to profile a current election. Using polling and demographic data, they synthesize data, statistics and representations to investigate the mathematics of elections.
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Materials Needed: Prepared ballots, as described below (one per student), computers with Internet access (or hard copies of polling and demographic data), poster paper
Author: PATRICK HONNER and HOLLY EPSTEIN OJALVO
Source: © learning.blogs.nytimes.com
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