Artifact: Redistricting Virginia Project (.docx)

MATH 150 was a course on math and its role in elections. In this course, we spent a week or two to study gerrymandering and the apportionment of districts. The purpose of this assignment was to apply this knowledge in redistricting Virginia based on 2010 statistics to be as least gerrymandered as possible. The reapportionment of the districts was based on nothing but numbers. This assignment was a group project done at the end of the Fall 2017 semester, my contributions being the math, the graphic, and the short essay. Doing this project allowed me to show what I learned about redistricting and gerrymandering, having to explain why the districts I created were not gerrymandered. However, I feel as though the work wasn’t divided evenly between our four group members, and I think a part of that was a lack of communication on all fronts. I made attempts to ask who was doing what, but it ended up that two members did some parts against the instructions. With the little amount of time that was left to do the project before the deadline and their own busy schedules, I was doing the work of three people. This project taught me to be more cooperative and communicative with my teammates in order to produce the best results on time.