My students need math in-class library that they can use to borrow books and learn that math and reading go together.
$920 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating 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.
I teach at a Title I school in Queens, NY where 100 percent of our students receive free breakfast and lunch. They all come from many countries in Asia and Latin America. Many of my students do not have a chance to experience many extra-curricular activities. Most of them stay home or at the park after school is over. I want to be able to provide them with a different activity that is both engaging and fun.
Collaborative, interdisciplinary, and hands-on projects are the best way to teach the mathematics my students need to succeed in middle school.
Projects give students a reason to talk with one another and to outside audiences. The projects they get most excited about are those that are hands-on and technology related. They quickly learn a new language and learn to work together at the same time, but only if we have the right tools.
My Project
One of the things that I noticed about my students is that they love to read. They love to read fiction and non-fiction books. They enjoy reading novels, comic books and even biographies. They even like to read when they finish with their math assignments during class.
I want my students to have access to a different genre of books: math novels.
I would like to introduce my students to math novels that are both educational and entertaining. I want them to read classics like Flatland, or a Japanese comic series called Math Girls, or books about how much mathematics is found in The Simpsons.
My goal for this project is to build an in-class math library and I hope that you help me spark in my students a seed of joy for mathematics.
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