The career-transition department serves the transitional needs of up to 50 students per year. Reinforcing school classwork and homework endeavors We propose to initially provide to the students four notebook computers for in-class and home use to meet the above objectives.
Notebook computers are necessary for reasons of transportability and home sign-out.
The notebooks will be equipped with an office suite such as Microsoft Office Pro. RICA School will purchase a classroom set of ten Pentium notebook computers and three instructor notebooks along with two Okidata 4W printers and a site license for Geometer's Sketchpad software for use in math classrooms. Three computers will also be used by the teachers for classroom managment tasks such as preparing lesson plans, maintaining the class gradebook and writing memos, letters, etc. We will have a class of 3-4 students taking Precalculus. Precalculus students will each be issued a Pentium notebook computer running Windows 95, Microsoft Excel, Wolfram's Mathematica program, SPSS for Windows, and other math-related software to support the precalculus curriculum.