My students need 4 classroom computers to create their futures--netbooks will give my students access to a host of powerful resources that help them visualize mathematics.
My students are technology's children--they eat, breathe and sleep in the digital world. Why not bring math and spatial reasoning to meet them? Modern tools in mathematics require modern resources to access them. Help give my students the chance to explore math a way that makes sense to them.
In my classroom, my students teach each other on a daily basis.
I teach ninth grade algebra and geometry in a low-income urban school in Massachusetts. My students tend to enter my class with less knowledge than they should and a steadfast belief that they can't do math. I've made it my mission to build my students' confidence and fight for them with every ounce of stubbornness I possess and every tool I can muster.
My Project
To prepare my students for the world beyond algebra and geometry, they need the chance to work with modern resources. I'm able to introduce them to some of the tools they'll be using throughout high school and college--Geometer's Sketchpad, Excel and Google Sketchup--using the resources that have recently become available, and the SmartBoard that's recently been installed in my room.
But my students deserve the opportunity to do more than look on while I use these powerful tools of understanding. They need the opportunity to design, to analyze and to create on their own in our classroom. With your help, providing Netbooks for use in my classroom, we can take the power and put it into my students' hands. Given the chance to explore these tools as freshmen in high school, they will be more prepared for their continuing use throughout high school, college and their futures beyond.
I want my students to find success in the best way I can, and prepare them for their brilliant lives as scientists, mathematicians and engineers.
I want my students to enter their freshman year of college with every advantage I can give them, including the chance to avoid the double learning curve of having to learn a new math language and a new technology simultaneously. You can help make this possible.
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