Teaching gerrymandering in our high school geometry classrooms provides students with a unique opportunity to use mathematics to describe, analyze and make sense of the world around them. Our purpose is to provide our students the opportunity to apply learned definitions and formulas of area and perimeter to a sociopolitical context. We present a…

Included in this article is a discussion of operations research and systems analysis which attack large-scale problems and challenges other relevant sciences to unite with society to solve widespread social problems. (Author/SA)

While John Dewey and Bertrand Russell share certain fundamental similarities in thought on many major social issues, it is in their educational thought that the disparity is most evident. (JN)