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My students love learning math with a whiteboard. If anyone came into my classroom and asked students what tools help them learn, about 90% of them would say a whiteboard. It is a popular tool in my math class, and my students constantly rely on it. My students are also working on their collaboration skills in math class. Many of them love to talk. Thus, one of the skills we are currently working on is having directed, meaningful conversations in math class. Unfortunately, right now, my students don't have spaces to collaborate. They have desks, and their desks are shaped like trapezoids, making them hard to move into groups. When we work on problems together in class, many of them are shouting across the empty spaces created by their desks, and they cannot collaborate effectively. They cannot put a standard piece of paper in the middle and share their thoughts or share their work. My goal is to change out some of the desks in my classroom for whiteboard tables. Having whiteboard tables would transform the learning experience for my students. It would allow me to provide students with a tool that helps them to be successful and put them in a seating arrangement that would enable them to collaborate. My goal is to change out some of my desks for tables so that students have collaboration space and can work together to solve some of the tasks and problems that we are working through. If we were able to do this, I know that students would have more meaningful activities in math class.

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My students love learning math with a whiteboard. If anyone came into my classroom and asked students what tools help them learn, about 90% of them would say a whiteboard. It is a popular tool in my math class, and my students constantly rely on it. My students are also working on their collaboration skills in math class. Many of them love to talk. Thus, one of the skills we are currently working on is having directed, meaningful conversations in math class. Unfortunately, right now, my students don't have spaces to collaborate. They have desks, and their desks are shaped like trapezoids, making them hard to move into groups. When we work on problems together in class, many of them are shouting across the empty spaces created by their desks, and they cannot collaborate effectively. They cannot put a standard piece of paper in the middle and share their thoughts or share their work. My goal is to change out some of the desks in my classroom for whiteboard tables. Having whiteboard tables would transform the learning experience for my students. It would allow me to provide students with a tool that helps them to be successful and put them in a seating arrangement that would enable them to collaborate. My goal is to change out some of my desks for tables so that students have collaboration space and can work together to solve some of the tasks and problems that we are working through. If we were able to do this, I know that students would have more meaningful activities in math class.

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