Help me give my students 3D printers to help them learn about scaling, proportions and engineering.
$814 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My students love to participate, learn and experiment. They come from a low-income under-served part of Los Angeles. 93% of my students qualify for free or reduced lunch. The school is predominantly Latino, with a smaller population of African American and Filipino students.
My students love to learn by doing.
They make hypotheses and connections, do experiments and report back on the results. They understand the engineering cycle, and they work hard to continuously improve their results.
Most of all, my students are hard workers. They always impress me by how resourceful they are. They know that college and career readiness are their goals, and they are ready to change the odds in the inner city.
My Project
It may not seem like it, but 3D printing brings mathematics to reality. When students design something in a CAD software, they have to take into account proportions, fractions, and unit relationships.
3D printing can be used a way to bring mathematics to life.
I want to use 3D printing as a math intervention - to make the math real for students who have struggled in the past. With two 3D printers, I can enable to students to design and print 3D objects, while also learning basic math concepts. I plan on designing a project based learning unit, in which students practice fractions and proportions without even realizing it.
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