An Elementary Mathematics Lesson about the 2020 Presidential Election
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Elementary Math, Estimation, Rounding, Election, CivicsAbstract
This lesson is a “spin-off” to a high-school lesson that we recently shared in this journal (Izard & Cloft, 2023); however, the lesson shared here is intended for 4th grade. We wanted to continue the conversation about how to make mathematics more meaningful and relevant for our students by considering ways of bringing real-world events into our classrooms, and we specifically wanted to consider what this could look like in an elementary classroom.
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CNN. 2020. "Nevada." CNN. March 6, 2021. https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/state/nevada
Gutstein, E., & Peterson, B. (Eds.). (2006). Rethinking mathematics: Teaching social justice by the numbers. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Rethinking Schools.
Izard, B. (2018). Teaching Human Rights through Mathematics. Mathematics Teacher, 112(2), 114–119.
Izard, B., & Cloft, K. (2023). This graph stinks... but I fixed it: A lesson on data representation. Ohio Journal of School Mathematics, 95(1), 10–20. Retrieved from https://ohiomathjournal.org/index.php/OJSM/article/view/9668
University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning & Teaching. (n.d.). Guidelines for discussing difficult or high-stakes topics. https://crlt.umich.edu/publinks/generalguidelines
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