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  • Communication & Media Arts High School
  • Detroit, MI
  • More than three‑quarters 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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Currently, my classroom has no tech for the students to handle and use, and students are using their personal cell phones, when available, to access helpful mathematics websites like Algebra Nation and Khan Academy. When their cell phones are lost, stolen, broken, or confiscated by adults as punishment, they lose all access to the educational benefits of technology. Our state legislature has paid for our students to have access to Algebra Nation, a wonderful hands-on learning experience for 9th graders; however, the full benefit of this program cannot be accessed from the students' personal cell phones. The students currently do not have access to tablets or computers either at home or in our school, which does not have a computer lab readily available to the students. By putting some Android tablets into my students' hands, you will enable me to utilize Google classroom to monitor their progress. Our Algebra textbooks, which are not available on a cell phone screen, can be accessed with these tablets. With technology, students will be able to research minority and female mathematicians and begin to visualize what their futures could look like. By having tablets in my classroom, I could use them to get the students who come to me at a 4th or 5th grade math level up to speed without singling them out or embarrassing them. There is no limit to the things we could do with just a little hands-on technology in the mathematics classroom.

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Currently, my classroom has no tech for the students to handle and use, and students are using their personal cell phones, when available, to access helpful mathematics websites like Algebra Nation and Khan Academy. When their cell phones are lost, stolen, broken, or confiscated by adults as punishment, they lose all access to the educational benefits of technology. Our state legislature has paid for our students to have access to Algebra Nation, a wonderful hands-on learning experience for 9th graders; however, the full benefit of this program cannot be accessed from the students' personal cell phones. The students currently do not have access to tablets or computers either at home or in our school, which does not have a computer lab readily available to the students. By putting some Android tablets into my students' hands, you will enable me to utilize Google classroom to monitor their progress. Our Algebra textbooks, which are not available on a cell phone screen, can be accessed with these tablets. With technology, students will be able to research minority and female mathematicians and begin to visualize what their futures could look like. By having tablets in my classroom, I could use them to get the students who come to me at a 4th or 5th grade math level up to speed without singling them out or embarrassing them. There is no limit to the things we could do with just a little hands-on technology in the mathematics classroom.

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