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Goal

Students will engage in mathematically rich tasks by being able to explore virtual manipulatives using touch screens throughout station rotations.  

Category

Electronics - Personal computers/tablets/iPads, headphones, charging cables, computer mice, etc. 

What will be done with my students

When the District established the 1-to-1 laptop initiative for students, it was a boon to both classroom teachers' ability to utilize virtual instruction as well as students' autonomy to complete tasks at home. However, most of Immokalee High School students' laptops lack touchscreen functionality, a feature that was highly beneficial to our classroom devices before the initiative. Most importantly, teachers lost the ability to assign virtual manipulatives that benefited or required a touchscreen.

Thankfully, touchscreens don't need to be present in every student's laptop to facilitate inquiry-based math lessons. Instead, I can use six Yoga 11e laptops in station rotations to achieve the same effect. In particular, students will explore math manipulatives such as those found on PHET:
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/filter?subjects=math&type=html,prototype

In addition, the Yoga 11e laptops provide a stylus for students to easily record and draw ideas to communicate to others. In some cases, all four laptops will be tethered to the same station for all team members to utilize at the same time. Other times, they can be spread across multiple stations for students to work on teams together. 

Benefits to my students

Students will regain the ability to explore enriched math manipulatives using a touchscreen and stylus. Through virtual manipulatives, they will be able to form their own hypotheses about math phenomenon related to eighth grade benchmarks. I find the manipulatives on PHET about slope and slope-intercept form to be most beneficial, as students are able to operate a linear equation by hand and test how manipulating the graph affects the equation, and vice-versa. We even extend this idea to systems of multiple linear equations graphed simultaneously.

Using only a track pad, students' conjectures are limited; with these touchscreen laptops, their kinesthetic understanding will be deepened.  

Budget Narrative

Six laptops will suffice to create six different groups. Along with the laptops, I also intend to purchase cases and screen protectors.

6x Yoga 11e 2-in-1 Convertible Laptop w/Windows 11 License:
https://a.co/d/8tMxPw4

6x Gumdrop SlimTech Laptop Case Fits Lenovo ThinkPad 11e Yoga (Gen 5) 2-in-1 Designed for K-12 Students Teachers & Classrooms | Drop Tested Rugged Shockproof Bumpers for Reliable Device Protection– Black
https://a.co/d/6nax9xh

6x Supershieldz (3 Pack) Designed for Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 11e (5th Generation) Screen Protector, High Definition Clear Shield (PET)
https://a.co/d/19M44xa
 

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