Is Democracy Fair?

Is Democracy Fair?

GRADE 5-8
COPYMASTERS

Grades 7-12

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How can you tell if an election outcome result is fair? Does the result truly represent the choice of the people?

In Is Democracy Fair? students tackle these questions and others related to the electoral process mathematically. With this unique copymaster activity book they explore and analyze different kinds of ballots, election decision procedures, and apportionment processes.

In the first half of the book, students are introduced to a variety of alternatives to the "winner take all" strategy used in most elections. Determining which strategy is the fairest is often a very challenging task, and, as students will learn, many times the strategy chosen predetermines the winner.

In the second part of the book, students investigate different methods of apportionment. How many representatives should there be from each state in the U.S House of Representatives? How do countries using a proportional representation system decide how many of the delegates in their governing bodies will be from each political party? Is this a political or a mathematical decision? Or is it both? Students will learn how this intersection between math and politics has been a source of debate and an object of manipulation.

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