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We don't spend years teaching children how to hold a paint brush before we let them paint a picture, so why do we so often keep kids who struggle in math from experiencing engaging real-life applications of math until after they have caught up to grade level skills? Your donation of ten TI-84 calculators will allow these struggling 8th graders to be more engaged in what they can do with math in so many different areas and hopefully begin to change their attitudes towards math and their own capabilities. Additionally, being able to quickly and easily do multi-step operations students will be able to focus on the bigger ideas rather than the calculations. There is also a very practical aspect to these calculators and that is the larger display area. This allows students to see what they've input and find their own mistakes rather than simply believing that if they did it on a calculator it must be right.

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We don't spend years teaching children how to hold a paint brush before we let them paint a picture, so why do we so often keep kids who struggle in math from experiencing engaging real-life applications of math until after they have caught up to grade level skills? Your donation of ten TI-84 calculators will allow these struggling 8th graders to be more engaged in what they can do with math in so many different areas and hopefully begin to change their attitudes towards math and their own capabilities. Additionally, being able to quickly and easily do multi-step operations students will be able to focus on the bigger ideas rather than the calculations. There is also a very practical aspect to these calculators and that is the larger display area. This allows students to see what they've input and find their own mistakes rather than simply believing that if they did it on a calculator it must be right.

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