Jamie Hedges' video featured on Delaware city's website

Jamie Hedges, a senior lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, produced a video in 2015 that explained two ways of counting votes. The video was for her Math 139 class, in which they learn the four different voting methods.

The video was publicly available on YouTube, and one day Hedges received an email from the city of Arden, Del., who wanted to use the video on their website. The city uses the Hare method of proportional representation in electing members of their Board of Assessors. In trying to make this understandable to their constituents, they found the video made by Hedges and linked it on their city webpage.

"I was very excited to hear that they were using it," Hedges said. "Many times, students come into a math classroom with negative perceptions. Many students think they are bad at math or that math is just a bunch of rules that you have to memorize without any meaning. This gives a clear example of math that is being used in the real world.”