Graph literacy / Political reasoning
Name the Problem
Name a pattern.
Defend what deserves attention.
Name a pattern. Defend what deserves attention. In Name the Problem, you join a citizens’ assembly, compare two views of representation or democracy, and develop a public interpretation. Make the political value or benchmark behind your priority explicit, respond to a challenge, and defend action, further inquiry, or monitoring. Leave with a poster that states your final interpretation and a report that separately explains your revision.
10 stages · Core or Full guidance
Created by Yoav Duman
US Government
Read congressional representation through historical change and a population benchmark. Ask what demographic presence can tell you about representation—and what evidence you would need about responsiveness.
Comparative Politics
Compare democracy counted by polities with democracy weighted by population. Examine how a denominator changes the picture and what regime classifications leave unknown.
Bring evidence to the assembly.
Choose a case, name the issue, compare another view, and defend a next step. Your interpretation can change as the evidence accumulates.
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For instructors
Read the graph.
Explain the judgment.
Use one case in US Government or Comparative Politics. Students practice units, denominators, inference, political values, and revision. A hypothetical new-chart challenge preserves an independent first attempt.
For a 50-minute class, plan 3 minutes to introduce the task, 30 for individual play, 12 for discussion, and 5 to save and submit. Adjust after a student pilot. Assess the full response report; the poster communicates the final proposal.
Classroom notes
Created by Yoav Duman. Core and Full both use 10 stages with different response guidance. The poster states the public interpretation; the report also records why it was retained or revised. These activities share evidence-reading habits but give students different responsibilities. Complaints audits whether a reply answers a resident’s question and what its evidence supports. Name the Problem develops a political interpretation, makes a value or benchmark explicit, and defends a next step. Use either independently. To pair them, assign the earnings file in Complaints first, then congressional representation in US Government or democracy in Comparative Politics in a later class. Bridge the activities with two questions: what kind of claim is this, and what supports it? Assess accurate comparisons and justified reasoning; retaining a sound answer, investigating, acting, and monitoring can all be defensible.
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Print or save a PDF report, or download response text for your course. Printing and downloading do not submit your work. If you started on the separate game site, download a backup there and restore it here.
For instructors / A companion activity
Audit an answer. Then defend a priority.
These activities share evidence-reading habits but give students different responsibilities. Complaints audits whether a reply answers a resident’s question and what its evidence supports. Name the Problem develops a political interpretation, makes a value or benchmark explicit, and defends a next step. Use either independently. To pair them, assign the earnings file in Complaints first, then congressional representation in US Government or democracy in Comparative Politics in a later class. Bridge the activities with two questions: what kind of claim is this, and what supports it? Assess accurate comparisons and justified reasoning; retaining a sound answer, investigating, acting, and monitoring can all be defensible.
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