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Middle School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice

by Basil Manley Conway IV, Lateefah Id-Deen, Mary C. Raygoza, Amanda Ruiz, John W. Staley and Eva Thanheiser

Resources

  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6
    • Lesson 6.1
    • Lesson 6.2
    • Lesson 6.3
    • Lesson 6.4
  • Chapter 7
    • Lesson 7.1
    • Lesson 7.2
    • Lesson 7.3
    • Lesson 7.4
    • Lesson 7.5
    • Lesson 7.6
  • Chapter 8
    • Lesson 8.1
    • Lesson 8.2
    • Lesson 8.3
  • Chapter 9
    • Lesson 9.1
    • Lesson 9.2
    • Lesson 9.3
    • Lesson 9.4
  • Chapter 10
    • Lesson 10.1
    • Lesson 10.2
    • Lesson 10.3
    • Lesson 10.4
    • Lesson 10.5
  • Chapter 12
  • Appendix

Lesson 10.5

  • Worksheet 1: Island Inheritance Task [Word] [PDF]
  • Worksheet 2: Irregular Areas [Word] [PDF]
  • Worksheet 3: Equal vs. Equivalent Areas Group Task [Word] [PDF]
  • Worksheet 4: Gerrymandering Games [Word] [PDF]
  • Worksheet 5: Equal vs. Equivalent Areas Project [Word] [PDF]
  • Worksheet 6: Gerrymandering Extension Questions [Word] [PDF]
  • Desmos Activity Day After Election
  • Polytrope District game
  • Game Theory Test, Gerry Mander"
  • The Redistricting Game
  • Ted-Ed Video "Gerrymandering: How drawing jagged lines can impact an election"
  • Quanta article "The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes
  • NYT Article "Investigating Gerrymandering and the Math Behind Partisan Maps
  • NCTM Article "Gerrymandering Background"
  • Wired Article "The Geeks Who Put a Stop to Pennsylvania Partisan Gerrymandering"
  • Nature Article "The Mathematicians Who Want to Save Democracy"
  • 538 article "Rig the Election with Math!"
  • Anchor Charts | Learning for Justice
  • Atlas of Redistricting
  • City of Evanston Wards

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