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Mr. Chu from San Francisco CA is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Calculators for Pluses and Minuses!

Help me give my students a full set of calculators that are always available in their math classroom!

  • $931 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My high-school math students are ambitious, sometimes wacky, and come from a wide variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Not all students will pursue a career in STEM, but they will most certainly carry their mathematical thinking and problem-solving skills into the future.

We MATH and have FUN!

My hope is to engage all students, especially those with an "I'm no good at math" mentality, and help them be successful and believe in themselves. Please fund my project, so I can instead focus on learning more bad jokes to tell my classes!

My Project

By having a full set of calculators (all of the same model) available in my math classroom, I can even the playing field for my students, some of whom cannot afford to purchase their own calculator.

Help me avoid last minute scrambles to find calculators for students to use in my classroom!

Yes, we teachers already have access to a limited number of shared calculators, but not nearly enough! It's a struggle especially those days were multiple teachers are giving math tests simultaneously. I teach five different math classes of up to 36 students each, so your donation will benefit up to 180 students, who won't have to worry about not having a calculator during class (especially during tests)!

Mr. Chu
Grades 9-12
  • Lowell High School
  • San Francisco, CA
  • More than half of students from low‑income households

    This project will reach 180 students.

    2 donors have given to this project.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Texas Instruments TI-30XII Scientific Calculator • AKJ Education $19.10 36 $687.60

Materials cost

$687.60

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$62.92

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.31

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$790.83

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$139.56

Total project goal

$930.39

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$930.39

1 Donor

-$263.61

Donations toward project cost

-$263.61

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$620.26

Match offer toward project cost

-$527.22

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$93.04

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$46.52

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$0.00

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