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Ms. Fizer from Lincoln MO is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Calculators Make it All Add Up

My students need 15 scientific calculators to assist them in solving complex math problems, involving fractions, square roots and logarithms.

  • $336 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

"I hate math" is the chant that I hear every day, every hour. My students don't really hate math, they are discouraged by the time it takes them just to complete one problem. Several new calculators would raise their morale exponentially!

Picture a small town in mid-Missouri, population less than 2,000.

A place where it isn't uncommon to see a tractor rolling down the street, and the bawls of cattle can be heard from the front steps of the school. The students here are familiar with having limited resources, but sometimes get frustrated coping with the limited technology available to them at school.

My Project

New scientific calculators would show my students that it doesn't take an eon just to complete one problem. They've practiced solving expressions, equations, and functions by hand countless times. Now that we are moving on to more complicated concepts, new scientific calculators will help them fly through problems that would have seemed daunting and near impossible. Students in various grade levels will use the calculators to speed through everything from simple addition and subtraction, to complicated trigonometric functions.

Your donation would help these young individuals realize that there are people out there who want to encourage students to learn, and provide the tools that would make education more enjoyable.

Help my students look beyond the pastures and fields surrounding them, towards the bright futures ahead of them, and outside the confines of the small town they know.

Ms. Fizer
Grades 9-12
  • Lincoln School R2
  • Lincoln, MO
    • More than a third of students from low‑income households

    This project will reach 90 students.

    10 donors have given to this project.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Texas Instruments - Scientific Calculator • Best Buy $15.99 15 $239.85

Materials cost

$239.85

Vendor shipping charges

 $12.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.60

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$285.45

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$50.37

Total project goal

$335.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $335.82

10 Donors

-$335.82

Donations toward project cost

-$285.45

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$50.37

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 $0.00

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