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Ms. Zinn from San Ramon, CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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In Need of a Pencil Sharpener That Students Can't Break!

My students need 2 pencil sharpeners and 45 protractors that are not broken.

  • $148 goal

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My Students

Help us make every minute count in Math class. When your pencil sharpener doesn't work well, they will stand and try to sharpen their pencil for up to 5 minutes. Help us to draw accurate circles with the use of protractors.

6th and 7th grade teenagers will find any reason in the world to procrastinate doing their work.

A broken pencil is the perfect excuse. And when your pencil sharpener does not work well, or at all, they will stand there for 5 minutes if allowed to sharpen their pencil. The math part of making a circle is hard enough, but when you don't have protractors to use, the job becomes impossible.

My Project

Rather than estimating what a circle graph looks like it is so important that students know exactly how big each piece of the pie should be in a pie graph. Once they figure out the degrees of each piece, they need a protractor in order to construct the circle graph.

Every minute of instruction is so important in Math to be able to cover all of the state standards that are required.

Having a pencil sharpener that works well could save minutes every day.

Ms. Zinn Iron Horse Middle School Grades 6-8

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San Ramon, CA View local requests 200 students impacted 6donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
DELUXE HEAVY-DUTY ELECTRIC PENCIL SHARPENER -- X-ACTO by Boston Heavy-Duty Electric Pencil Sharpener • Quill $44.99 2 $89.98
PROTRACTOR 6'' • Childcraft, Inc. $0.25 45 $11.25

Materials cost

$101.23

Vendor shipping charges

 $2.02

Sales tax

 $7.34

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$121.11

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$26.59

Total project goal

$147.70

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $147.70

4 Donors

-$147.70

Donations toward project cost

-$121.11

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.59

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