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Mrs. Foster from Greensboro, NC is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Collaborating Calculations

Help me give my students interactive and engaging activities to practice the math learned by supplying them with escape rooms and collaborative mosaics with a Teachers Pay Teachers gift card, colored pencils, and colored paper.

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My Project

“Hey, teacher, we should do more activities like this, it makes the math fun,” voiced one of my students. That was the day I decided that my students deserved to practice the math content in a fun way. Supplementing the curriculum with escape rooms and collaborative mosaics from Teachers Pay Teachers is my request.

Employing escape rooms and collaborative mosaics will provide the fun and practice students need to become better problem solvers.

I will use the Function and Solving Equations Escape room bundle and Calford’s collaborative mosaics as cumulative unit activities to reinforce concepts. The collaborative mosaic requires students solve a set of problems and use their answers to color a grid based on their answers using colored pencils. The grids are then put together to create one picture. The colored pencils will ensure that each student has the needed supplies to participate. Using the Function Escape room , students will work together to crack the codes as they practice working with functions. Each task for the escape room is different. I plan on using different color paper for each task. Using color copy paper for each task allows me to visually check the progress of each group quickly. As we near the end of the school year, I will also use 8th grade Review escape room to prepare my students for the 8th grade assessment.

My plan is to use purchased materials to motivate students to work together and discuss the math as they “escape” or produce a mosaic. If I can get students talking to each other, exploring and thinking through the math, learning is more likely to happen. I need your help to help my students to enjoy their journey to becoming great problem solvers.

Project tagged as

Greensboro, NC
Grades 6-8
Mathematics
Traditional School
Instructional Technology
More than half of students from low‑income households

Mrs. Foster Academy at Lincoln Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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Greensboro, NC View local requests

More than 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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Materials Cost Quantity Total

$100 Gift Card for Educational Resources on Teachers Pay Teachers • Teachers Pay Teachers $100.00 1 $100.00

Crayola Kids' Colored Pencils, Assorted Colors, 24/Box (68-4024) • Staples $4.56 8 $36.48

Astrobrights Colored Paper, 24 lbs., 8.5" x 11", Tropical Colors, 500 Sheets/Ream (91665) • Staples $17.79 1 $17.79

Materials cost			$154.27
Vendor shipping charges			FREE
Sales tax			$4.23
3rd party payment processing fee			$2.31
Fulfillment labor & materials			$30.00
Total project cost			$190.81
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			$33.67
Total project goal			$224.48
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal			$224.48
3 Donors			-$105.69
Donations toward project cost			-$95.41
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$10.28
match offer			-$112.24
Match offer toward project cost			-$95.40
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$16.84
Excluded support for DonorsChoose			-$6.56
Still needed View calculation Hide calculation			$0.00

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Collaborating Calculations

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Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

More about Mrs. Foster

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TEACHERS, FEELING INSPIRED?

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Where your donation goes

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