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Mrs. Cross from Vandalia MO is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Complex Calculations Made Easier with a Calculator

My students need calculators that are available for use whenever they are in my classroom. I want them to be able to do their best on their tests and classwork without having to share.

  • $484 goal

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My Students

Imagine that you are taking a math test and come to a problem that you have to take the square root of 4392 and round to the nearest tenth but you have no calculator. This happens a lot in my classroom. I have a few calculators but not enough for my whole classroom. It is on my students school supply list but I know for some of them it is not on the top of the priority list.

My students are hard workers and most are on a free and reduced lunch program.

We are a small rural school district in northeast Missouri. Some students come from a farm background otherwise the only other businesses are a brick plant and women's prison. My students don't have a real positive outlook for what they can do in the future but I try to provide them with as many opportunities as I can in the classroom.

My Project

My students try to be to my classroom first on test days so that they can grab a calculator. I would like each of my students to not have to worry about whether there will be a calculator in my room when they get there.

In Geometry and Algebra there are many complex calculations that need a calculator so students require the use of them.

If the students have a calculator they can learn to use it well for these complex calculations but if they don't have one it slows them down in their learning. Imagine someone next to you using a calculator while you are trying to figure it out by hand which puts you behind. This makes everything your doing feel frustrating and a student will be less likely to want to learn. So a classroom set will definitely improve my students lives.

Mrs. Cross
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Texas Instruments 30XIIS/TKT Calculator Teachers Kit • Amazon Business $125.04 3 $375.12

Materials cost

$375.12

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.63

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$410.75

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$72.49

Total project goal

$483.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$483.24

2 Donors

-$483.24

Donations toward project cost

-$410.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$72.49

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$0.00

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