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Coach Cara from Washington DC is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building a Foundation in Place Value

Help me give my students a strong foundation in place value understanding of whole numbers!

  • 2 donors
  • $1,149 still needed

expires Jul 27

  • 2 donors
  • $1,149 still needed
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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Project

The math team at our school is working hard to help students build a strong foundation in place value. This work will stay with students from first grade all the way through middle and high school as they add, subtract, multiply, and divide both whole numbers and fractions.

A key piece of their foundation is allowing students to physically compose ten 1's into one 10, ten 10's into 100, etc.; and decompose into smaller place values.

In order for all students to have access to this understanding, they all need to have place value blocks in front of them.

Our students will use the place value blocks throughout the year to understand 2-digit addition and subtraction and expanded form. Towards the end of the year, they carry this work into 3-digit numbers which builds even further into third grade. Help us give students the experiences they need to develop a deep conceptual understanding of this work!

Coach Cara
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
hand2mind Blue Plastic Interlox Connecting Base Ten Blocks Complete Set, Place Value Blocks, Counting Cubes, Base Ten Blocks Classroom Set, Base 10 Math Manipulatives Kindergarten (Set of 644) • Amazon Business $149.99 6 $899.94

Materials cost

$899.94

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$54.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$997.44

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$176.02

Total project goal

$1,173.46

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,173.46

1 Donor

-$25.00

Donations toward project cost

-$21.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

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$1,148.46

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