Bring election fever to your math classroom...

Check out our latest addition to the Elementary Math Gizmo Library... Mascot Election.

In this Gizmo, your students explore how the results of a vote for a new school mascot can be represented using tally charts, pictographs and bar graphs.

Will it be a landslide victory for the Wolf, or will it be a neck-and-neck race between the Eagle and the Lion until the final ballot is cast? To find out, students will have to learn to correctly interpret various graphical representations and how they summarize the story of the election!

Mascot Election can also be used to engage your students in classroom discussion of more advanced concepts they may encounter in the news media surrounding an election, such as the use of polls in predicting the outcome of a vote.