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Ms. Jack from Seattle, WA is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Quality Calculators for Budding Mathematicians

Help me give my students good quality calculators that do not fall apart when dropped for students in an underserved urban school.

  • 3 donors
  • $541 goal

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My Project

My 7th grade pre-algebra students at this underserved urban school are in need of new, quality calculators. After my students showed me that they are able to do basic math by hand I allowed them to start using calculators. I found a class set of calculators in one of the closets in the classroom I took over mid-year. These calculators are very low quality. Some of the calculators have buttons that don't always respond when pressed leading students to arrive at the wrong answer despite doing the correct math, while others had buttons that were misprinted with the wrong number or symbol. In addition to the issues with the buttons, the calculators my students currently have are so poorly made that when knocked off a table the panel holding the battery often fall off. Some students have also reported that when this happens parts of this panel have snapped off making it so this panel cannot be replaced.

When I made the low-quality calculators available to students I introduced a check out system that has resulted in very few of my calculators going missing in the more than 2 months they've been available.

I would love to reward my students for their great show of responsibility and ownership by providing them with higher quality calculators.

Thank you for supporting myself and my students!

Ms. Jack Edmond Meany Middle School Grades 6-8

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Seattle, WA View local requests

More than half 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

133 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Texas Instruments TI-108 Solar Power Calculator, Set of 10 - Elementary - Kids - Durable • School Specialty $89.32 4 $357.28

Materials cost

$357.28

Vendor shipping charges

$35.73

Sales tax

$31.26

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.36

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$459.63

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$81.11

Total project goal

$540.74

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$540.74

2 Donors

-$270.36

Donations toward project cost

-$229.81

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.55

match offer

-$270.38

Match offer toward project cost

-$229.82

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.56

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$0.00

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