Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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My students are ready for more advanced mathematical applications and problems. However, many higher mathematics curricula and materials require access to technology, specifically graphing calculators. While our students have access to online calculators like Desmos, the reality is that college-level mathematics often requires knowledge of how to use graphing calculators. We do not want patchwork access to technology to be the standard for our learning community.
With a set of TI-84+ calculators for the math department at our school, every student would have equitable and consistent conditions for learning math.
All students would have access to calculators capable of performing the advanced math we want our students to learn. We could teach them a consistent procedure for inputting information, instead of our students having to learn a different format for the assortment of calculators we have currently. This also means fair conditions for testing, better support for our students with different learning needs, and more time to focus on higher-level math skills.
My greatest goal beyond generating meaningful relationships with my students, is to consistently contextualize their math learning with real world application and to replicate real world situations in the classroom. Most all real world math is messy, including multiple equations and statistical operations beyond the scope of simple 4-operation calculators. I hope to never have a student held back from being mathematically ready or conceptually successful due to lack of support with advanced operations and complicated procedures. After all, what's a math classroom without accessible calculators? Thank you for your support!
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My students are ready for more advanced mathematical applications and problems. However, many higher mathematics curricula and materials require access to technology, specifically graphing calculators. While our students have access to online calculators like Desmos, the reality is that college-level mathematics often requires knowledge of how to use graphing calculators. We do not want patchwork access to technology to be the standard for our learning community.
With a set of TI-84+ calculators for the math department at our school, every student would have equitable and consistent conditions for learning math.
All students would have access to calculators capable of performing the advanced math we want our students to learn. We could teach them a consistent procedure for inputting information, instead of our students having to learn a different format for the assortment of calculators we have currently. This also means fair conditions for testing, better support for our students with different learning needs, and more time to focus on higher-level math skills.
My greatest goal beyond generating meaningful relationships with my students, is to consistently contextualize their math learning with real world application and to replicate real world situations in the classroom. Most all real world math is messy, including multiple equations and statistical operations beyond the scope of simple 4-operation calculators. I hope to never have a student held back from being mathematically ready or conceptually successful due to lack of support with advanced operations and complicated procedures. After all, what's a math classroom without accessible calculators? Thank you for your support!