Help me give my students the ability to manipulate materials such as Fold and Learn Geometric Shapes, Magnatiles, Giant Magnetic Fraction Circles and Bars, Volume Cubes and Multiplication Dominoes that allow students hands on learning.
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My Project
GRIT describes my 3rd through 5th grades on IEPs who struggle in math. They show tenacity both at school and in life as a wonderfully diverse group, all bringing unique qualities, strengths, weaknesses, and personalities from different cultures, races, economic groups, and abilities and join together in our rural school, which is truly a family. In our classroom, my students know it is a safe environment to be themselves and grow through exploration and effort, celebrating victories, and encouraging each other as we work through challenges together. One example is by utilizing giant magnetic tiles to learn fraction skills that they missed due to Covid implications.
Hands on manipulatives allow my resource room students to see, touch, and investigate volume, area, perimeter, fractions, multiplication and more instead of just imagining these concepts while solving problems on paper or electronic devices, which is often a huge struggle for them.
These concrete representations will help create a solid base knowledge of these often hard to grasp concepts, giving them a strong foundation that many have not solidified due to Covid-19.
Struggling students need to explore with manipulatives to grasp new math standards and concepts. Being able to fold and unfold shapes to count faces, edges, vertices and nets; being able to use Magnatiles to construct and then solve to find area and perimeter along with identifying and measuring angles and being able to use cubes to understand volume gives my students such a base knowledge of geometry skills before going on to higher level math.
Being able to add these elements of sight and touch to my resource room math class would help me reach so many more students than by just traditional methods.
Half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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