My students need manipulative materials to help make their Geometry class come alive and a class set of calculators to help them analyze the structures they create.
On last Fall's state assessment, the gateway content area for student success in Mathematics was Geometry, but our Geometry classes are too often dry, taught with resources that are more appropriate for elementary and middle grades than for High School students.
We are a high-need school in an urban district in Rhode Island.
All of our students receive subsidized breakfast and lunch daily. The majority of our students are or have been English Language Learners. The city is in bankruptcy and the school is in its third and final year of transformation, a following persistently low performance. While we have invested in teachers and curriculum resources, our classroom technology and hands-on materials lag behind.
My Project
With these tools, my class will be able to investigate two- and three-dimensional figures in hands-on Geometry labs. We will be able to create Platonic and Archimedean Solids, investigate angle relationships between edges and faces and create mathematical sculptures to decorate our classroom. We will be able to use trigonometric laws in context to calculate angle measures and to visualize common irrational ratios that arise from special right triangles and the golden ratio.
By providing resources to my classroom, students will be able to work hands-on with content that often seems too abstract to be of use to students.
Students will be able to see the beauty underlying Geometric structures. This grant will help our students to build and see real-world applications of the mathematics they are learning and will help our students train for success in the 21st Century.
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