Transforming the Math Classroom Into a Math Laboratory
Help me give my students a better classroom experience using magnetic manipulative on new classroom whiteboard.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. DeFronzo's classroom raised $819
This project is fully funded
My Students
Our school is a STEM focused charter school in Sandy, Utah. We use Evidence Based Instructional Strategies (EBIS) to collaboratively teach and prepare students across the curriculum for life in the twenty-first century.
Our school sees the need for technology-based instruction, as we know our world to be technology based.
While pencil and paper are still useful in a math class, technology is also a must.
We strive to offer students an education that spans Apple, Microsoft, Android, and other systems. Students learn to write software (coding), use OfficeSuite and have even developed medical technologies and video games.
My Project
So we now have three projectors with Apple TV. The students have iPads that they can project onto the whiteboards. Our whiteboards are old. The protective coating is all gone. Some of them don't erase anymore (not without using chemicals which are not allowed for use while students are in room.)
With the new whiteboards the classroom will transform from a show where students sit and watch to an interactive place where students work together to solve many problems.
Imagine, the students are in control of the whiteboard, using the projects as they form conjectures and develop arguments to evaluate each others mathematical reasoning. Imagine watching as the students explain the meaning of a problem to one another, come up with a plan, and walk through the steps of solving the problem.
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