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Mrs. S. from MA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Calculating Tasks

My students need calculators to work on short assignments in the classroom during the school day.

  • $561 goal

This project expired on November 29, 2012.

This project expired on November 29, 2012.

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This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

Calculators - a tool we end up using almost daily, to double-check our mental math abilities, or to balance our checkbooks.

My sixth grade students live in an urban district and attend a pod-style school.

They are a diverse group of learners. They are usually in a class of about 25-28 students, some years reaching 30 students! Many students enter the sixth grade without knowing multiplication and division facts fluently, which poses a problem with lessons that require them to compute large numbers.

My Project

Over the past 8 years I have worked with sixth grade students, I have never had a class set of calculators. The classroom that I entered was so disorganized and math tools were missing. In 8 years, I have gone from having about 20 calculators to 10, since there was no place to store and keep them away from wandering hands. Now that we are getting a little bit of a remodel in the school, and I will have a locked closet, I would like to start with a full set of classroom calculators that my students can use during class assignments.

Calculators are an integral part of a mathematics classroom.

When students are not being assessed on multiplication or division facts, activities can be quite difficult if they are expected to work every problem out on their own. Having calculators for activities where I am not looking at a student's ability to compute on their own would be extremely helpful in the flow of the class lesson.

Mrs. S.
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
TI-108/TK CALCULATOR KIT SET OF 10 • School Specialty Inc. $61.65 3 $184.95
TI-15/BK EXPLORER CALCULATOR • School Specialty Inc. $21.56 10 $215.60

Materials cost

$400.55

Vendor shipping charges

 $40.06

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.01

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$476.62

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$84.11

Total project goal

$560.73

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