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Ms. Gaisford from Salt Lake City UT is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Conceptual Counting

Help me give my students place value blocks for building understanding of numbers.

  • $251 goal

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My Students

My second graders inspire me daily. We are engaged in remote learning only in Salt Lake City School District in order to keep families, district employees, and the vulnerable of our community safe. Students need interaction, real life experiences, hands on learning in a literacy rich classroom.

The majority of my students are English Learners (ELs).

Kinesthetic learning, learning that incorporates body movement and hands on problem solving, is how ELs are best able to access conceptual knowledge. I have been able to motivate my students to log on to Zoom everyday from 8:00-1:30 by incorporating technology tied to our learning objectives, quick pacing, relationship building, and talk time at recess. They are bonding and it is incredible to see friendships blossom over online learning. My goal is to hand deliver place value blocks to their homes so that they can all participate in creating and writing numbers up to 1000, and ultimately to ensure they are prepared for the learning demands of third grade.

My Project

Second graders are required to learn to count from 1 to 1000. Some of my students are still struggling with the concept of counting from 1 to 100.

My students will use the place value blocks from home during remote learning so that they will master second grade core math concepts.

There is so much we will be able to do together. I will tell them riddles and they will create numbers. They will compose and decompose tens, hundreds, and thousands to gain conceptual understanding of numbers and operations as required by the state core.

Ms. Gaisford
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
GG902 Base 10 HandsOn Teaching Kit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $89.99 1 $89.99
GG845 Base 10 HandsOn Student Pack • Lakeshore Learning Materials $5.99 15 $89.85

Materials cost

$179.84

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$212.54

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$37.51

Total project goal

$250.05

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$250.05

1 Donor

-$250.05

Donations toward project cost

-$212.54

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.51

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$0.00

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