How Ranked-Choice Voting Uses Math to Solve Real-World Problems

Every spring the smell of delicious, spicy chili fills the air, and you get to taste all the entries at Tusculum University. In previous years, voting was done by filling out a piece of paper, and counting the entries by hand. This was a tedious and labor intensive process. So last year, I helped to…

Two Students

This is a story of two different students. For our sake, we’ll call them Think 1 and Think 2. (Yes, a play on words of Thing 1 and Thing 2… as they are thinking students… and how they think about themselves really matters.) Both of these students have been students of mine. They are similar…