Worksheets cover new material each week, with content provided by the video lectures. Quizzes take place on Socrative in the room DUCHINMATH on Tuesdays at 9:30am sharp.
Voting theory
Worksheet 1, on Ch 1-2, systems of election and fairness criteria. (quiz Tuesday Feb 9) — Worksheet solutions — Quiz solutions
Worksheet 2, on Ch 1-2, systems of election and fairness criteria. (quiz Thursday Feb 18) — Worksheet solutions — Quiz solutions
Worksheet 3, on Ch3, spoilers (quiz Tuesday Feb 23) — Worksheet solutions — Quiz solutions
Worksheet 4, on Ch4, Smith sets and “strong” candidates (quiz Tuesday Mar 2) — Worksheet solutions — Quiz solutions
Worksheet 5, on Ch5-6, “Smithifying” elections and the beatpath method (quiz Tuesday Mar 9) — Worksheet solutions — Quiz solutions
Worksheet 6, on Ch7+, monotonicity, strong monotonicity, and warmup for the impossibility theorems (quiz Tuesday Mar 16) — Worksheet solutions — Quiz solutions
Worksheet 7, on Ch9+, wrapping up the impossibility theorems (quiz Tuesday Mar 23) — Worksheet solutions — Quiz solutions
Discussion prompts on voting theory (discussed in section March 23)
Practice Problems for Midterm (exam is “in class” March 30) — Solutions
Apportionment
Notes on Apportionment — Apportionment “Slider” (Python notebook)
quiz on intro to apportionment Tuesday April 6 — Quiz solutions
Worksheet 8 on apportionment and paradoxes (quiz Tuesday April 13) — Worksheet solutions — Quiz solutions
Redistricting
Worksheet 9 on compactness and redistricting (quiz Tuesday April 20) — Worksheet solutions (note: Problem 4 mostly not included so you can try it yourself) — Quiz solutions
Worksheet 10 on partisan fairness metrics (quiz Tuesday April 27) — Worksheet solutions — Quiz solutions
Worksheet 11 wrapping up redistricting (no quiz) — Worksheet solutions