Group activities

Throughout the semester, you will frequently work in groups on problems and small projects.  Here are some of the longer group activities you will work on: 

• Ranked choice voting activity

  • • finding the winner of a ranked choice vote using all the methods we've seen.

• 2022 Alaska special elections for the U.S. House of Representatives

  • • a real election ehibiting many weird properties.

• The many strange ways of voting

  • • exploring the voting method in U.N. Security Council, Academy Awards, Eurovision, Olympics, ATP rankings, etc.

• Apportionment activity

  • • deciding how the apportionment after the 2020 census would have turned out if a different method was used.

• Playing around with districting

  • • coming soon

• Gerrymandering activity

  • • examining partisan bias and compactness scores.