Fairness in political districting: Exploring mathematical reasoning

• Sean Chorney ^[1]
  1. [1] Simon Fraser University

     Simon Fraser University

     Canadá

     
• Localización: Proceedings of the 45th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education / coord. por Ceneida Fernández Verdú, Salvador Llinares Ciscar, Ángel Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Núria Planas i Raig, Vol. 2, 2022 (Research Reports A – H), ISBN 978-84-1302-176-8, págs. 155-162
• Idioma: inglés
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  • For this paper, I explored the informal reasoning of undergraduate social science students in a mathematics class. They were looking into the mathematics of political districting, in particular gerrymandering. Using Sellars’ notion of the space of reasons and analytic categories from the socioscientific issues literature, I examined the reasons students gave for the positions they took. I observed the way mathematics played a role in their reasoning and, how, when they addressed a social issue, their reasoning was more holistic. The analytic categories illuminated my data on how mathematics was integrated into the students’ informal reasoning.