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The Election Problem

From Peg + Cat · 2013

The Election Problem
13 minPre-KK1stMath
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Summary

Peg and Cat are running in an election and need to win the votes of 100 chickens. Counting up the votes and comparing who has more turns the campaign into a counting-and-comparing problem — a friendly first look at how voting works.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

Winning the chickens' votes means counting and comparing.

  1. How do you decide who wins an election?
  2. If one side has more votes than the other, how can you tell?
  3. Why do you have to count every vote?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: vote, count, more, compare.

Try it: Take a class vote between two snacks, count each side, and say which got more.