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Project Goal

This project aims to build whiteboard stations for students to create a classroom that allows students to think more deeply about math. The goal is to help students think more conceptually about math and engage with it more than in a traditional classroom setting. 

 

How Project Benefits Students

This project will benefit students in grades 9-12. It will reach mostly 10th, 11th, and 12th graders. This project is something students will experience on a consistent basis in the classroom. They will use these whiteboard stations whenever they are working on problems with other students. This will happen multiple times a week - if not daily. This project allows the curriculum to be approached in a way that new research is showing is more beneficial to student learning. It connects to nearly every standard being taught. This project will benefit students because it will give them a place to work with a group to explore mathematical problems and concepts. Research has shown that students engage more with mathematics when they are standing and working at non-permanent surfaces (whiteboards). This project will fund the materials necessary for those student group stations. Once they are able to work at those stations, students will engage more fully with the mathematical concepts and be part of meaningful mathematical discussions. This will get parts of their brain working that they do not use in a traditional mathematics classroom.  

 

Expected Outcome(s)

The expected outcome of this project is that these high school math students will be higher achieving on assessments in the class and at the district/state level. Their increased engagement will allow them to more fully and deeply understand the content and they will be able to apply it in a variety of contexts for different problems. They will be more successful math students by earning higher grades and scores than if they were in a traditional math classroom. This outcome will extend beyond this year because I plan to use the whiteboard stations with future students as well.  

 

Detailed Cost Summary

1. Magnetic Dry Erase Paper is adhesive magnetic paper to affix to the wall to create a workspace for students.
2. Black Expo markers are for students to use at their whiteboard stations.
3. Hook and Loop tape is to give extra hold to the whiteboard paper on surfaces that the adhesion may not affix to.
4. Blue Expo markers are for me to mark student work on the whiteboard stations.
5. Expo dry erase cleaner is to keep the whiteboard stations clean.
6. Black storage caddies are to hold manipulatives and other items like dry erase marker erasers for working groups.
7. Magnetic coordinate grid is to help students work graphing problems on the whiteboard.
8. Calculator holder is to organize the class set of calculators after students work with them at their workstations.
9. Adhesive marker holders are to keep the markers organized at the whiteboard stations.
10. Microfiber cloths are to let the students erase their writing as they work at the whiteboard stations. 

 

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