Math Department With No Calculators...What!? Seriously? In 2021? Yep.
Help me give my students a class set of scientific calculators to every class at our school.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Gardner's classroom raised $2,904
This project is fully funded
My Students
My students are from Sparks, Nevada, and range from 6th to 8th grade. Our School holds about 1,100 students. Our students at a public school that prides itself in reaching the top levels academically in our region even though we are far from the most economically affluent. As a whole, our students are extremely respectful and seeking to do their best in and out of the classroom.
The hope is that these Calculators would provide a class set for 6 math teachers.
My Project
We currently have 60 calculators that are 6 years old for 1,100 students in our school. Our hope is to get 30 calculators in every teacher's classroom as a class set. This way we have enough for district and state testing. We have chosen scienctific calculators because we do not want to use graphing on state tests because it would give the answer. However, a basic calculator does not use the high functions such as exponents that we use for our state standards.
Our goal is that students can use calculators to check answers and speed up the process to get to answers.
This way we can dive deeper into every standard
We in Nevada are super behind in funding and would not expect new calculators for several years. Also, it would be only to replace the 60 ones we currently have and not enough for every student to use.
More than a third 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
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