It’s Elementary—March Madness

March Madness is upon us! Your students are probably already working on their next assignment in bracketology, predicting the field for the NCAA Basketball Tournament. (Although the word doesn’t appear in Webster’s, there is an article on bracketology on Wikipedia, so it must be real.) Let’s apply the principles of bracketology to the properties of the elements. The competition among the 64 elements is stiff, and there is a wealth of information for students to research, in this “elementary” version of March Madness!