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This is a way for students to analyze the Presidential election mathematically. Students will look at the number of electoral votes for each state and find mean, median, mode and create a stem-and-leaf plot. After the election they will look at the percentage of votes earned by each candidate and create bar and pie charts of the results. I did this lesson 4 years ago and it was a big hit. I teach 6th, 7th and 8th grade math and the lower school teacher (4th and 5th) will be using parts of this in her class. My students are a professional touring choir who will be on the road the two weeks before the election. I will be starting this project then and ask them to speak with people they meet on tour and to take note of lawn signs and ads they see in the states they travel through.
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This is a way for students to analyze the Presidential election mathematically. Students will look at the number of electoral votes for each state and find mean, median, mode and create a stem-and-leaf plot. After the election they will look at the percentage of votes earned by each candidate and create bar and pie charts of the results. I did this lesson 4 years ago and it was a big hit. I teach 6th, 7th and 8th grade math and the lower school teacher (4th and 5th) will be using parts of this in her class. My students are a professional touring choir who will be on the road the two weeks before the election. I will be starting this project then and ask them to speak with people they meet on tour and to take note of lawn signs and ads they see in the states they travel through.
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Students enjoyed this, lots of discussions
LOVE this. I modified this to be for the 2016 election and made some other minor changes to meet the needs of my class and the material that we covered. I also brought it to a job interview and showed it as evidence that I teach across curriculum (I got the job!). Thank you SO much.
Nice this can be edited! Thank you for sharing your hard work! I'm your newest follower. Best of luck on TPT!
I am going to pass this on to my colleagues. I love the math application. We might be able to use the first part in our 4th grade math class. Thanks for a great project. :)
This is an awesome math project to use with the upcoming presidential election. It's a great way to show students how math can be applied in the real-world.
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