America the Purple
As you may have noticed, I often use this blog as a placeholder to keep track of information that may come in useful in teaching. Along with the questions I highlighted in my last post,…
voting systems
Explaining voting systems
(Originally posted on my old blog on Nov. 27, 2013; image by Rama, via Wikimedia Commons) Voting systems are hard to introduce to students, especially some of the more creative ones. Fortunately, the internet has some…
What is proportional representation?
(Originally posted on my old blog on Nov 27, 2013) Here’s a quick video starting John Cleese where he tries to sell UK voters on switching to a proportional representation system (spoiler alert: he fails).…