Week 14 Agenda

Monday - 12.02

1. Math Talks: NC and PA congressional districts - 2016 vs 2018
   • What do you notice? What do you wonder?
2. Gerrymandering Explained again
3. Choose your own adventure Wisconsin Supreme Court Case. Then, write a response that briefly summarizes your article and answers the question: Is gerrymandering unconstitutional or is it just politics? Please be sure to cite from your selected resource.
   • Podcast: “Gerrymandering at the Supreme Court” | From The Daily (22 minutes)
   • Shorter Article: Partisan Gerrymandering: How Much Is Too Much? | From NPR (1000 words)
   • Medium-Length Article: How a Wisconsin Case Before Justices Could Reshape Redistricting (1600 words)
   • Longer Article: The New Front in the Gerrymandering Wars: Democracy vs. Math (2900 words)
4. The Burlington Mayor Race

Tuesday - 12.03

1. Math Talks: Looking at different districts
2. Your congressional district’s compactness measures
3. The Electoral College Part 1
4. Project descriptions
   • Need to Know Posters

Wednesday - 12.04

Minimum Day

1. Math Talks: Visualizations of Elections Results
2. Electoral College Part 2
   • Fuzzy Math Excerpt
     • Questions for Freewrite
   • Gaming the Electoral College (optional interactive site where you get to alter how the electoral college works)
3. Efficiency Gap of CA Districts 51-53

Thursday - 12.05

1. Math Talks: Proportional Winner - California House of Representatives
2. Which measurement best determines if gerrymandering has occurred?
   • Calculating proportionality of districts in CA
   • Compare it the efficiency gap calculations for CA
   • Compactness measures?
3. Sign up to be a Poll Worker
4. Work on NTK Posters

Friday - 12.06

1. Math Talks: Riddle
2. Critique of NTK Poster Draft 1
3. Read and respond to topic of choice: Census Question or Redlining
   • What do you notice? What do you wonder?
   • What strikes you about this topic?
   • What connections can you make on a macro level? A micro level?
   • Did anything connect to you on a personal level? If so, what?
   • What connections does this topic have to voting and/or redistricting?