My students need the stories The Gold-Bug and The Adventures of the Dancing Men and the DVD Nazi Secrets Revealed to support their study of Cryptology.
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“When am I ever going to use this?” is a question asked too often by students in math classes. With so much focus on passing standardized multiple-choice tests in mathematics, students rarely get to see the beauty and relevance of this most important subject.
Cryptology is the fascinating study of secret writing such as codes and ciphers. Math has been and continues to be used to analyze, break, and create codes. By exposing my students to how mathematics was used to help end WWII and keep their passwords safe on the internet, they will now be able to answer the infamous question, “When am I ever going to use this?”
I am a high school mathematics teacher that works with an under-served, low-income, highly minority student population. I teach Algebra and Geometry to 9th-12th grade students who have never heard of Cryptology until I told them. After teaching this class during a summer program for gifted youth, I proposed to teach it at my school where the students would otherwise never have this opportunity, as it is primarily only offered at summer programs or colleges.
However, since this is an elective course there is no funding for supplemental resources. To emphasize the historical and literary context of the math they will be studying in this course, I need class sets of Edgar Allen Poe’s story The Gold-Bug and the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventures of the Dancing Men. In addition, the DVD Decoding Nazi Secrets, which documents the history of the Enigma machine and how mathematics helped break its code, is an integral resource to this course.
Your financial contribution will allow my students to see how critical math has been throughout history in this captivating course. I hope that my students not only learn to appreciate this use of math, but may also aspire to study mathematics beyond Algebra II or Pre-Calculus.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
Return of Sherlock Holmes: Includes the Adventure of the Empty House, the Adventure of the Norwood Builder, the Adventure of the Dancing Men, the Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist the Adventure of the Priory School, the Adventure of Black Peter, the Arthur Conan Doyle
• Barnes and Noble
$12.59
40
$503.60
The Gold-Bug and Other Tales Edgar Allan Poe, Stanley Appelbaum (Editor)
• Barnes and Noble
$2.25
40
$90.00
Materials cost
$629.59
Vendor shipping charges
$62.96
Sales tax
$45.65
3rd party payment processing fee
$9.44
Fulfillment labor & materials
$9.00
Total project cost
$756.64
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$166.09
Total project goal
$922.73
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$922.73
4 Donors
-$461.36
Donations toward project cost
-$378.32
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$83.04
match offer
-$461.37
Match offer toward project cost
-$378.32
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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