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  2. Mathematical Olympiads for Elementary and Middle Schools

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    There are two divisions, Elementary and Middle School. Elementary level problems are for grades 4-6 and Middle School level problems are for grades 7-8, though 4-6 graders may participate in Middle School problems. Hundreds of thousands of students participate annually in MOEMS events. MOEMS plans soon to develop an online teacher training program.

  3. Mathematics education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Success in middle-school mathematics courses is correlated with having an understanding of numbers by the start of first grade. [42] This traditional sequence assumes that students will pursue STEM programs in college, though, in practice, only a minority are willing and able to take this option. [4] Often a course in Statistics is also offered ...

  4. Voting - Wikipedia

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    So, a voter might vote for Alice, Bob, and Charlie, rejecting Daniel and Emily. Approval voting uses such multiple votes. In a voting system that uses a ranked vote, the voter ranks the candidates in order of preference. For example, they might mark a preference for Bob in the first place, then Emily, then Alice, then Daniel, and finally Charlie.

  5. Art in the women's suffrage movement in the United States

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    Art sales and shows were also used to raise money for campaigns. In the United States, the women's suffrage movement began in the 1840s [1] with the purpose to gain full voting rights for women. [2] Suffragists succeeded in their effort to receive voting rights on August 26, 1920, when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified by state legislatures ...

  6. Mathcounts - Wikipedia

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    The Mathcounts Competition Series spread quickly in middle schools, and today it is the best-known middle school mathematics competition. [5] In 2007, Mathcounts launched the National Math Club as a noncompetitive alternative to the Competition Series. In 2011, Mathcounts launched the Math Video Challenge Program, which was discontinued in 2023 ...

  7. Drawing lots (decision making) - Wikipedia

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    Drawing lots or drawing straws is a selection method, or a form of sortition, that is used by a group to choose one member of the group to perform a task after none has volunteered for it. The same practice can be used also to choose one of several volunteers, should an agreement not be reached.

  8. Nanson's method - Wikipedia

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    Nanson's method can be adapted to handle incomplete ballots (including "plumping") and equal rankings ("bracketing"), though he describes two different methods to handle these cases: a theoretically correct method involving fractions of a vote, and a practical method involving whole numbers (which has the side effect of diminishing the voting ...

  9. Party-list proportional representation - Wikipedia

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    Poster for the European Parliament election 2004 in Italy, showing party lists. Party-list proportional representation (list-PR) is a system of proportional representation based on preregistered political parties, with each party being allocated a certain number of seats roughly proportional to their share of the vote.