Ashley Clary

Clary’s innovative teaching program, “Flying Into 21^st Century Math,” is designed to support the various learning levels of the students, including those 50 percent who are performing below grade level in the area of math. With school being one of their main avenues for success, innovative drones purchased with the Voya grant funds, offer an avenue to excite the students and teach math standards at the same time. Clary believes she will more effectively engage her students and increase their ability to think critically with drones. Their math lessons will focus on coding equations into an app, which will allow the drones to fly the route that students’ code. Clary will use drones to check the values of equations with her lower level students while differentiating the equations for more advanced students. Students will be able to visualize abstract concepts of algebra using the drones. Clary hopes the use of drones within the class standards will engage learners in their math instruction and increase their critical thinking skills.