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Ms. Saumell from Miami Beach, FL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Choosing Healthy Lunches And Learning Math, Too!

My students need 20 copies of "Lunch by the Numbers", a book that teaches middle schoolers about math and making healthy choices in the school cafeteria.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Saumell's classroom raised $458

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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.

My Students

Please help me teach my middle school students to choose healthy meals in the school cafeteria and, at the same time, hone their math skills.

I teach math to over 100 sixth graders at a K-8 center.

Our school is classified by the federal government as a high poverty Title I school. This project will help with two challenges that face our students. First, the need to make wise decisions about diet. Many of our children are overweight. They supplement their school lunches with junk food. Second, they find advanced math pretty irrelevant to their daily needs.

My Project

One of the Donors Choose catalogs contains a book that teaches students how to use middle school math skills to select healthy meals in the school cafeteria. This is just the kind of book that I want for my sixth grade math students. It will teach them about healthy food choices, and it will teach them math in a contextualized, interesting format. I want to get a class set of this book, Cecilia Minden's "Lunch by the Numbers," to use in my math lessons. Additionally, thanks to the generosity of Publix Supermarkets, Florida projects about nutrition currently qualify for a 50% matching grant. This is another great reason to go for this book set!

Please consider making a donation, no matter how small, to help the over 100 students whom I teach weekly in my math classes.

You will be killing two birds with one stone. Lunch by the Numbers will teach my students about math AND about healthy eating which are both both very worthwhile aims.

Ms. Saumell Fienberg-Fisher K-8 Center Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lunch By the Numbers • AKJ Books $20.81 17 $353.77

Materials cost

$353.77

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.31

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$389.08

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$68.66

Total project goal

$457.74

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $457.74

1 Donor

-$194.54

Donations toward project cost

-$194.54

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$228.87

Match offer toward project cost

-$194.54

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$34.33

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$34.33

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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