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Presidential elections provide opportunities to teach about power, proportions and percentages

  • Written by Liza Bondurant, Associate Professor of Secondary Math Education, Mississippi State University
Presidential elections provide opportunities to teach about power, proportions and percentagesThe complex voting system in the U.S. requires a sophisticated understanding of math.bamlou/DigitalVision Vectors

To American voters, the process of electing a president and other officials may be difficult to explain and understand. For America’s math teachers, the system represents a gold mine for real-life lessons on ratios, statistics and...

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