Past projects 78
Indoor Air Quality for Mathematicians!
Funded Aug 23, 2014Thank you for your generosity in contributing to this project. You have played a direct role in improving a school environment for middle school students. Genuinely, you have made the lives of my students better by allowing them to be actively engaged in the monitoring of the environmental quality of their school environment. Additionally, my students will reap the benefits of breathing air with a decreased particulate quantity, thanks to the purifier.
The air quality monitor will provide relevant measures of the air that we breathe. Through experiencing these observable quantities, my students will in turn develop knowledge about the world in which they live. Indoor air quality is directly related to the health and comfort of the occupants of a building. You have helped to create more healthy and more comfortable students in the classroom, which will directly improve their chances of attaining success.
Thank you for your overwhelming generosity and support of our students. I profoundly appreciate your contribution to our classroom.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Seymour
This classroom project was brought to life by Dorothy and 3 other donors.Mathematicians Have Run Out of Graph Paper...Help!
Funded May 6, 2014Thank you, thank you, thank you! We were incredibly excited to receive your gift of graph paper supplies for our classroom! We had been experiencing a complete paper drought (no copies, no worksheets - in school, no less) until your benevolent donation brightened our day. Your generosity has given us access to essential school supplies - without you we would be seriously lacking in the capacity to effectively document our academic achievements and create tangible portfolios for presentation to potential high schools. We sincerely appreciate your contribution to our classroom! Thank you for showing your support of our students.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Seymour
Basic Supplies for EXTRAORDINARY Students!
Funded Apr 16, 2014We sincerely appreciate your contributions to our classroom. Your generosity has helped provide our students with otherwise inaccessible materials conventionally deemed as essential classroom supplies. You have helped equip at least 100 seventh grade mathematics students with materials that will drive their profound explorations of the beautiful elements of mathematics.
My students respond positively when they see that their community members invest in their academic success. Thank you for the sense of inspiration that you have helped kindle in our classroom.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Seymour
Help Us See Math in Vivid Color! Continued!
Funded Feb 10, 2014Your brilliant and illuminating gifts of lights and lighting equipment have arrived! Thanks to your support we have begun crafting stations in both the math classroom and our rock band classroom at which students interact with and build with the sound-sensitive and programmable lighting fixtures that create the visual effects for performances. Thanks to you, our students are now designing multisensory experiences that harness the creative power of mathematics and visual arts to improve their understandings of quantity, design elements, and performance - as well as collaboration. Thank you for bringing innovation and current technology to our school. It is your generosity that has made a project such as this a reality.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Seymour
Math + MakerBot = Magnificent Mathematicians!
Funded May 6, 2014My students are overwhelmingly impressed by your charitable contributions to our classroom. We have now begun thinking, mapping, and creating in the third printable dimension. We have been using our MakerBot to enhance our studies of multi-dimensional geometry as well as bolster our understandings of both design and aesthetics.
Now that we have been able to embrace contemporary technology in our classroom, we are looking forward to innovate within the school, seeking out opportunities to enhance efficiency in the context of our everyday activity by designing and printing mechanical solutions to existing problems.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Seymour
We Need to Read! Books for Mathematicians Please!
Funded Apr 1, 2014Our books have arrived! Thank you all for making a contribution to our math classroom in the form of beautiful books. My students gasped in anticipation as the package arrived at our classroom...what could be in the big, heavy box?
Our recent units of study have focused on scale drawings and additional elements of architecture and physical structure analysis and construction. The books offer a colorful, captivating perspective on the more fascinating, mathematically relevant elements of construction.
You have contributed to our construction of a mathematics library - an interesting, interactive, growing collection of essential resources in the math classroom. We sincerely thank you for the generosity that you have shown to our classroom.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Seymour
Theremin Building for NYC Mathematician STEM Project!
Funded May 6, 2014Our theremin building kit has arrived! Thanks to you all, our students now have an entry point into the worlds of circuitry, music performance, stage design, and craftsmanship. Our kit consists of many sensitive, technologically-specific parts that will ultimately come together through teamwork to create one of the most unique and captivating marvels of modern electrical engineering ever imagined. Thanks to you, seventh grade math class will take on an unprecedented dimension of creativity. We sincerely appreciate your contribution to our classroom.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Seymour
This classroom project was brought to life by 100 Women in Hedge Funds and 5 other donors.Mathematicians Need FUN to LEARN!
Funded Feb 10, 2014My students are overjoyed that the Battleship games have arrived to our math class! Initially, few students could imagine just why board games were arriving to the room in which mathematics is instructed. There's fun in math class, really?
Indeed. We'll be introducing students to the ordered pair system by which the locations of points on the Cartesian plane are described, upon which lies the fundamental communication structure of Battleship! My 7th grade students enthusiastically anticipate the next opportunity that we have to engage in the competitive and challenging nature of the board games that your have donated.
Thanks to you, learning in math class will be a breath of fresh air for a bit. We sincerely thank you for your contribution to our classroom.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Seymour
Help Us SEE MATH in VIVID Color!
Funded Oct 30, 2013Thank you all for your support of our classroom. We are absolutely inspired by your contributions to both the aesthetic value of math classrooms and the productive and fun experiences of mathematics students. You have helped build a functional learning space in which students interact with environmental fixtures that develop their fluency with technically specific equipment that is both informative and fun.
Thank you for bringing joy into our math learning experience. We are absolutely thrilled that you have supported our classroom.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Seymour
This classroom project was brought to life by an anonymous donor and 6 other donors.New York City Mathematicians Want To Build In Math Class!
Funded Dec 20, 2013Wow! An engaging opportunity for math students to engage with scale models and recognize real-world ratios? Count us in - thanks to you!
Our students absolutely love working with the LEGO Architecture models from step one until the last phase of the build. While working with the models students have been engaged deeply with a sense of purpose and celebrate the opportunity to experience success in task completion.
We are currently studying ratios and proportional relationships using scale drawings. The structures created by LEGO offer an outstanding opportunity for students to construct scale models of buildings that tower over their home city!
My students have been looking forward to math class, admiring the handiwork of their classmates, and, most importantly, experiencing the joys that come through purposefully gaining fluency in the lovely language of mathematics. We profoundly thank you all for your generosity.
You have contributed to student enjoyment of math study, an incredibly important and honorable way to engage in local education.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Seymour