 You may be wondering, what exactly is Civic Mathematics? Civic Mathematics was designed to give students an idea of how math is interwoven into our society. Some of the topics that you may study include voting theory, apportionment, fair division, gerrymandering, matrices, and a little bit of graph theory as it relates to scheduling and shortest paths. Let's look at the types of problems that you may see. You may be asked to investigate how the power distribution of the European Union changed after Brexit, or how to evaluate the fairness of a redistricting plan. You may also investigate the mathematics of human trafficking or how to allocate power trucks after a natural disaster. What pieces of information are needed to solve this problem? Sometimes we evaluate claims made by the media. For example, in 2018, a New York Times article was published that explores the idea of expanding the House of Representatives from 435 seats to 593 seats. What methods can we use to evaluate this claim? You can also learn how to use Spurner's Lemma to figure out how to divide the rent using triangles. This problem was also published in the New York Times, and these are just to name a few. You may be wondering, how will you be assessed in this course? In this course you can expect a lot of collaboration and group work. You will be asked to complete modeling problems and projects with your group, as well as problem sets and some homework individually. I hope this gives you an idea about civic mathematics, and we hope to see you in the course soon.