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Ms. Yau from Brooklyn NY is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Makerbot for Math

My students need a Makerbot Academy bundle, which includes a 3D printer, three spools of filament and a year of technical support.

  • $2,453 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

Help our Scholars graduate on time! This year is the last opportunity for students to take the New York State Integrated Algebra exam, which is required for graduation, before the switch to the new common core assessments take place.

Our school is part of a network of public schools that specializes in developing a model that provides academic and social support for at-risk urban young men.

My Scholars are Algebra I repeaters; some have repeated this course more than once. There is a mix of those who have learning disabilities for relating to and retaining concepts, while others have a sense of frustration with math that prevents them from making the necessary connections with it.

My Project

Traditional approaches of putting pencil to paper and repeating math drills have not provided much success for my Scholars. Scholars are the most engaged when they can interact kinesthetically with the concepts and are able to relate to them through real world contexts. With the 3D printer, I would be able to create models and manipulatives that they can use as part of their daily practice. Scholars would more readily retain information because they can better visualize the concepts and have a more meaningful experience to reference to. In addition, Scholars will improve on word problems by practicing making connections between a given situation or model and the math behind it.

Ultimately, I would like for my students to gain a sense of success with mathematics.

Providing them with a way in which they can access math will allow them to change their views of themselves and open them to a much wider range opportunities.

Ms. Yau
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
MakerBot Academy - 3D Printing Bundle • MakerBot $2,000.00 1 $2,000.00

Materials cost

$2,000.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $25.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$30.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,085.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$367.94

Total project goal

$2,452.94

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $2,452.94

2 Donors

-$58.00

Donations toward project cost

-$49.30

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.70

Matching donations from our partners

-$2,394.94

Match offers toward project cost

-$2,035.70

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$359.24

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 $0.00

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