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.
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Mrs. S. from MA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.
See what Mrs. S. is requestingMy students need calculators to work on short assignments in the classroom during the school day.
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.
Calculators - a tool we end up using almost daily, to double-check our mental math abilities, or to balance our checkbooks.
My sixth grade students live in an urban district and attend a pod-style school.
They are a diverse group of learners. They are usually in a class of about 25-28 students, some years reaching 30 students! Many students enter the sixth grade without knowing multiplication and division facts fluently, which poses a problem with lessons that require them to compute large numbers.
Over the past 8 years I have worked with sixth grade students, I have never had a class set of calculators. The classroom that I entered was so disorganized and math tools were missing. In 8 years, I have gone from having about 20 calculators to 10, since there was no place to store and keep them away from wandering hands. Now that we are getting a little bit of a remodel in the school, and I will have a locked closet, I would like to start with a full set of classroom calculators that my students can use during class assignments.
Calculators are an integral part of a mathematics classroom.
When students are not being assessed on multiplication or division facts, activities can be quite difficult if they are expected to work every problem out on their own. Having calculators for activities where I am not looking at a student's ability to compute on their own would be extremely helpful in the flow of the class lesson.
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