kehsibad Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Hi. I would like to know whether my IA topic for the HL Math exploration meets the rigour of math criteria.I would like to do an exploration of the mathematics behind voting, and I will examine these:1. Voter Profiles: Vectors on a plane to describe number of votes2. Linear Transformations: Shifting of voters without changing the voting population3. Evaluation of the three main voting systems (Plurality, Plurality with Run offs and Borda Count) through the fairness criteria (Majority, Condorcet, Monotonicity )Thank you Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hollath Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Sounds like an interesting idea, although I'm unsure if it will accurately model voting, surely probability and statistics would be better? In any case, sounds like it would get a 3 or 4max out of 6 for the HL maths criteria regarding use of mathematics. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rigel Posted November 5, 2013 Report Share Posted November 5, 2013 To be blunt I don't see this topic going anywhere. Why don't you try something a bit more "rigorous" but at the same time "applied" enough? You can model certain phenomena using a respective equation (trying differential equations is a nice bet), or deriving an expression for some sort of data (say the number of votes or something like that). Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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