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Mr. O. from Denver, CO is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mr. O.'s classroom raised $579

Scientific Calculators For Special Education Math Students

My students need 40 scientific calculators.

Mr. O. Montbello High School
Denver, CO Grades 9-12

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These calculators are for students in our Special Education Inclusion classes for 9th Grade Algebra. These classes consist of special education and English language acquisition students, who learn alongside classmates of all ability levels.

Nearly all of our special education and English language acquisition students come from financially challenged families. These families can barely afford the disposal basic calculators from the Dollar Store, let alone more capable scientific calculators which are required for our annual state assessments. A scientific calculator has become a necessity in the modern Algebra, Geometry, and Pre-Calculus classroom, and the best way to ensure that students are prepared for advanced high school and college mathematics coursework is to integrate their use into the instruction as early as possible. In 9th grade Algebra, the students will use them to solve recursive patterns, to develop and solve quadratic equations, and to write equations and solve problems of probability and statistics. Without this technology resource that most other schools take for granted, our students are falling further and further behind, because at this point their peers in other districts have been using them for years.

Because of the technology trickle-down effect, students have some amazing and very affordable options these days. While it is easy to spend several hundred dollars on a scientific or graphing calculator, there is one model that costs less than ten dollars (when ordered as a classroom set) and yet delivers 90% of the functionality and capability of the most advanced model. Our teaching team has found that exposure to scientific calculators, even when all of the more advanced features are not being used, benefits our students in both general and specific ways. Using the calculator's basic functions helps to build self-confidence and to defeat math-phobia. As the students become more confident, they are empowered to tackle higher order and more complicated problems, as well as use their inherent creativity to discover new features and capabilities that they would otherwise never see. And specifically, their use will prepare the students for the annual state assessment, which assumes (wrongly) that all students are technologically savvy and competent.

Your help will make it possible to level the playing field and bring technology resources into the hands of the students who need it the most.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

120 students impacted 11 donors
Mr. O. Montbello High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Denver, CO View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

120 students impacted 11donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
TI-30XA BATTERY SCIENTIFIC CALCULATOR -- Texas Instruments TI-30X-A Scientific Calculator • Quill Corporation $9.89 40 $395.60

Materials cost

$395.60

Vendor shipping charges

 $39.56

Sales tax

 $11.47

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.89

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$474.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$104.05

Total project goal

$578.05

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Total project goal

 $578.05

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