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Mrs. Shirk from Hays NC is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Calculators for Successful Students!

Help me give my students the new TI-84 Plus calculators! They work hard and deserve the best tools to help them be successful.

  • $983 goal

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My Students

We are a low income school in the northwest corner of North Carolina. My classes are composed of 9th-12th graders that are eager to learn the math required to get them ready for the real world and college.

We are a school where 60% of our students receive free lunch and about 20% receive reduced price lunch.

Our textbooks are outdated; our calculators are outdated and are all but dead. Most of our students come from low income families without the means to buy the required technology.

My Project

UPGRADE! Please help me get a small class set of TI-84 Plus calculators to help them work through various types of math problems. On our current roster, we have students ranging from 9th to 12th grade, in a variety of math classes. I would love to have a very versatile calculator which would allow all of the students to appropriately access assistance.

These new calculators will help foster a love of math!

Our current calculators have been around for a while and have been painted, buttons have worn off, and screens are scratched or cracked. My kiddos and I would love a new set to help foster a love of math and build the confidence required to be successful in math.

Mrs. Shirk
Grades 9-12

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus CE Plum Graphing Calculator • Amazon Business $149.00 3 $447.00
Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus CE Blueberry Graphing Calculator • Amazon Business $144.98 2 $289.96

Materials cost

$736.96

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $57.48

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.05

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$835.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$147.44

Total project goal

$982.93

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $982.93

17 Donors

-$624.00

Donations toward project cost

-$570.45

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$53.55

match offer

-$311.84

Match offer toward project cost

-$265.06

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.78

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$47.12

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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