The students in my class deal with learning, behavioral, and/or emotional disabilities while living in a group home and trying to learn. It's impressive what they are able to accomplish in the face of such adversity.
All of my students have special needs.
They have experienced trauma in their lives and struggle with basic needs, let alone regularly attending school. My school serves students with a range of abilities, and the educators work hard to make school both fun and challenging. The student population has a high turnover rate throughout the year, so it is difficult to describe a typical student, but I teach math to students in 6-12 grade. All students receive free lunch. Our technology is severely outdated, so we are resigned to mostly work out of textbooks. We don't even have wifi! There is so much that my students could do if they had the same opportunities as students at nearby public schools. Let's work together to give them a chance to shine!
My Project
Every week, students have the ability to work towards Fun Friday. To date, they have had their choice of playing card games or a variety of board games and web-based games, few of which were actually related to math.
I want to change Fun Friday so that students are still learning and practicing with math games!
They have already started playing on a couple of websites that teach them how to code or help them practice basic math skills. The games that I want to purchase will do the same, some of them more directly than others. One will help them with logic and pattern identification, another will work on equations, then there are geometrical riddles, basic operations, and the always dreaded FRACTIONS!
Having these games available for students to play with on Fun Friday will ensure their continued success in math class.
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