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Ms. Grant from Danbury, CT is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Compasses Come Full Circle

Help me give my students circle compasses so they can engage in mathematically accurate drawings.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Grant's classroom raised $189

This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

I teach mathematics (geometry) in a low income, highly diverse school environment. Our school has over thirty-five hundred students and we speak a total of more than forty, different languages. That being said, a majority of my students are also English Language Learners who are struggling to acquire the math register and a new language concurrently. Many of my students are disengaged with school, whether it be due to absences or lack of manipulatives. I need these materials to help them re-engage and connect with the material on a deeper level. I can help students find school to be an enriching experience if I keep them motivated and wanting to attend class. I can do this with classroom materials that help me assign differentiated work and address whole-group misconceptions. I need these materials so that my students can begin to see themselves as mathematicians and important contributors to the learning process. Classroom supplies will help close the achievement gap and help support my classroom. The addition of these materials in my classroom will help level the playing field and give students the opportunity to work with materials they do not have access to at home.

My Project

These compasses will be used to create geometric constructions. They will also help my students engage with geometric concepts in an artistic way. Geometry allows students to see the beauty of math outside of the numbers. These compasses are much more accurate and reliable than those I have that are held together by duct tape.

These compasses will help students see the geometric concepts we discuss in class come "full circle"-- pun intended.

Architects, carpenters, artists and other trades my students may take up as a career use compasses to create aesthetically pleasing and mathematically sound designs. Please allow my students to engage with this hands-on technology that they otherwise wouldn't be able to use!

Ms. Grant Danbury High School - Main Campus Grades 9-12

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

130 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Circle Master Compass • Nasco $2.33 50 $116.50

Materials cost

$116.50

Vendor shipping charges

 $11.65

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$159.90

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$28.22

Total project goal

$188.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $188.12

2 Donors

-$188.12

Donations toward project cost

-$159.90

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.22

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 $0.00

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