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After the Election, Students Ask: What If Kids Could Really Vote?

Ring Mountain Day School students tally national student mock votes along with actual electoral votes and call the election for Obama.

As both student mock and actual election results came in this week, middle school students at Ring Mountain Day School started analyzing the results. Nationally, students gave Obama 460 electoral votes and Romney, 78. In the midst of discussing the results, the 6th graders in Andrea Gough's social studies class, generated an interesting question: What if kids could really vote? Then what would the results of the election have been?

It all started with one suggestion to try combining the data, and then they were
off! Students worked in pairs to gather data on the percentages of Democratic and
Republican votes in each state.  Then, applying the skills they've been
learning in math class, they averaged the Democratic and Republican results from the two elections (mock and real).  They charted their answers, colored in a new electoral map, and tallied the electoral votes:  Obama, 443 and Romney, 95, compared to 303 and 206 in the actual election.

To see more information about the mock student election results, take a look at Ring Mountain's wiki pages here:

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