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Ms. Bowes from Anchorage AK is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Battleship Battles to Bolster Our Brains!

Help me give my students fifteen sets of the classic Battleship game to use as a mathematical learning tool.

  • $252 goal

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My Students

I am the teacher of very energetic and remarkable 4th grade students in a city with the most ethnically diverse neighborhood in our country! Our district has over 48,000 students, encompasses almost 2,000 square miles, and has more than 130 schools and programs. There are over 100 languages spoken by families in our school district.

Each morning, my students walk through the door and are greeted with new opportunities to learn and to be successful.

My students are very creative and, as their teacher, I do my best to foster their learning and provide opportunities to grow as individuals. Our classroom is full of eager learners and very hard workers with ethnically and economically diverse backgrounds.

Each of my students comes from his or her own unique situation and home life. Every single one of my students has strengths to share, as well as room to grow academically, emotionally, and socially. We are a strong and loving classroom community that works together to ensure learning, growth, opportunities, and successes for each other.

My Project

The Battleship games I am requesting are a supplement to the fourth grade curriculum we are using in our classroom. These games will give my students opportunities to work with partners to engage in fun and enriching math activities.

Students will be able to practice and fine-tune skills, learn new concepts, and come to a greater understanding of the math we study while having fun and working with others.

Playing Battleship can be especially helpful for kinesthetic and visual learners. The game of Battleship requires students to practice thinking and problem solving skills that are critical to understanding mathematics. Battleship is a game of memory, logic and strategy, and probability skills. The game also helps students become more familiar with the X-axis, the Y-axis, points that contain an x- and y- coordinate, origin, quadrants, columns and rows, locating points, and naming points.

Utilizing supplemental materials is important for students. It is a time to enjoy each other's company, have fun while learning and reinforcing concepts, and explore math from a different perspective. Thank you for considering our project. With your help and the help of DonorsChoose, I will be able to provide my students with engaging and fun learning opportunities.

Ms. Bowes
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Battleship Game • Amazon Business $11.92 10 $119.20
Battleship Game • Amazon Business $11.92 5 $59.60

Materials cost

$178.80

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $2.68

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.68

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$214.16

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$37.79

Total project goal

$251.95

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $251.95

3 Donors

-$167.99

Donations toward project cost

-$142.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$25.19

match offer

-$83.96

Match offer toward project cost

-$71.37

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.59

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 $0.00

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