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This project aims to increase classroom-ready materials that can be used to support democratic dialogues in high school with a specific eye to topics that require inclusion of quantitative elements – information which is argued to be crucial for understanding collective challenges and solutions (Ani, 2021). Many issues in our democratic society cannot be discussed fully without attending to information or analysis that involves quantitative reasoning or mathematics in some way. In this project we aim to both shed more light on the role of mathematics in civic dialogue, as well as prompt more conversations in high school classrooms that are examples of democratic dialogues. We leverage the Collaborative Conversations protocol that was developed based on the Encounters model, and previously piloted by Armstrong and Whipple in social studies classrooms in the state, to promote these mathematically informed democratic discussions. We produced and piloted a set of 3 full lessons and share them here publicly. Lessons were piloted in high school and college classrooms.