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Ms. Willard from Mount Vernon WA is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

A Calculator a Day Keeps Math at Bay

Help me give my students technology. We teach all classes, even algebra 2, to use a basic scientific calculator, because that's what we can afford to have as class sets.

  • $1,553 goal

This project expired on May 23, 2020.

This project expired on May 23, 2020.

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate 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

My students are incredibly diverse. Over half of the high school is a beautiful mixture of Latinx students from various backgrounds and I'd estimate over 25% of the students are bilingual.

Because of this, my students are kind, thoughtful, and excited to be at school (most of the time, as they are high school students, after all).

They come to us from hard homes, loving homes, siblings in gangs, younger siblings whom they care for after school, and school is a way to escape and learn.

My Project

Teachers in my district can only afford class sets of scientific calculators, which do the job until algebra 2 and above. Students are learning to graph by hand, rather than using a graphing calculator, which puts them behind when it gets to standardized testing and even higher level math.

Expecting students to do math by hand stops them from really digging into the math concepts and applying them to the real world.

This project will help begin to collect calculators students can use in math before calculus and all math teachers in my school will be welcome to share the set.

Ms. Willard
Never Before Funded Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus EZ Spot Teacher Pack, Yellow, 10-Pack • Quill.com $1,169.99 1 $1,169.99

Materials cost

$1,169.99

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $102.37

3rd party payment processing fee

$17.55

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,319.91

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$232.93

Total project goal

$1,552.84

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