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Ms. Thome from Milwaukee WI is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Making Math Meaningful with Manipulatives

My students need 23 math manipulatives such as dominoes, dice, tangrams, and pentomino puzzles.

  • $542 goal

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

Students call it puzzling, creating, building, designing or playing. Teachers call it learning! I teach math to students in an urban elementary public school. About 70% of my students come from families in need. The student population includes children from a variety of cultural backgrounds and socioeconomic levels.

My school is no different than many urban public schools in that there is a significant achievement gap between students who come from families of means and those who come from families fighting poverty. One reason for this gap is experience or lack there of. My goal is to provide children with as many meaningful experiences with math as I can.

Math manipulatives not only support the skills that students are being taught in the classroom, but extend them into different contexts. Offering students a variety of tactile experiences to support their learning will help them practice what they have learned, retain new information and help them improve their ability to problem solve in new situations.

Your donation will give many students plenty of opportunities to puzzle, create, build, design and play their way to better mathematical understanding and along the way, perhaps even learn to love math!

Ms. Thome
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Attribute Beads • Nasco $26.95 1 $26.95
Deluxe Color Dot Dominoes Double-Nine Set • Nasco $10.95 1 $10.95
Positive/Negative Dice • Nasco $9.50 1 $9.50
12-Sided Jumbo Numbered Dice • Nasco $4.95 2 $9.90
Nasco s I Have Who Has Base 10 Blocks Game • Nasco $9.75 1 $9.75
Nasco s I Have Who Has Place Value Card Game • Nasco $9.75 1 $9.75
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Math Fraction Dice Set • Nasco $3.50 3 $10.50
Polyhedra Dice Games Kit • Nasco $16.95 1 $16.95
Pattern Block Activities for Junior Grades • Nasco $36.95 1 $36.95
Domino Math Book B • Nasco $6.10 1 $6.10
Domino Math Book A • Nasco $6.10 1 $6.10
Spinner Collection Set • Nasco $5.20 3 $15.60
The Math Machine Tangram Puzzles • Nasco $21.95 1 $21.95
Attribute Blocks Pocket Set • Nasco $5.65 3 $16.95
Hands-On Learning Math Game: Place Value • Nasco $6.30 1 $6.30
Place Value Pocket Chart • Nasco $33.50 1 $33.50
Overhead Tangrams • Nasco $3.75 2 $7.50
Overhead Geometry Pentominoes • Nasco $2.75 2 $5.50
The Math Machine Geometry Pentomino Puzzles • Nasco $31.95 1 $31.95
Geometry Pentominoes • Nasco $12.95 1 $12.95
Nasco s Foam Tangram Class Set • Nasco $21.95 1 $21.95
PolyConstructo Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, and Hexagons Set • Nasco $39.95 1 $39.95

Materials cost

$390.45

Vendor shipping charges

 $39.05

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$444.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$97.46

Total project goal

$541.46

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $541.46

7 Donors

-$541.46

Donations toward project cost

-$444.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$97.46

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