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Ms. Abangan from Chicago, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Increasing Love of Math through Stories

Help me give my students stories that spark their curiosity about mathematicians and the history of math!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Abangan's classroom raised $258

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

Creative, hard-working, motivated, curious, and future innovators - these are words and phrases that I would use to describe my middle school students. As an educator at a low income, mainly minority, urban school, my students demonstrate perseverance by overcoming the obstacles they are faced with everyday, which, as a young adolescent, is never easy.

I believe in the importance of a caring classroom environment where authentic learning is supported and encouraged.

My goal as a teacher is to be able to reach my students by using different teaching strategies so that each student can learn the skills necessary to be successful, both in and out of the classroom. Teaching math gives me an opportunity to teach real-life problem solving skills and the ability to see those "a-ha" moments when my students understand and relate a core concept.

My Project

The first step towards success in math is a positive attitude. Many of my students enter math class with feelings that make them unhappy about having to do math. Math negativity creates low self-expectations and a fear of making mistakes. The purpose of this project is to help build student interest in math by creating a classroom library that humanizes the mathematicians who developed the content students learn.

We teach students to memorize equations, formulas, and theorems, but we don't share the stories about the people who developed and explored them.

I want to spark curiously in my students by sharing stories of the people who explored how numbers work and how their explorations of patterns allowed them to create the concepts they learn in school. I want to capture my students' imaginations as a way to demonstrate the value of math.

Ms. Abangan Goethe Elementary School Grades 6-8

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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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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

100 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Really Big Numbers • Amazon Business $25.00 1 $25.00
The Boy Who Loved Math The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos • AKJ Education $17.99 1 $17.99
The Girl With A Mind for Math • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Nothing Stopped Sophie • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Blockhead • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Hidden Figures • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Counting on Katherine • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Ada's Ideas • AKJ Education $13.10 1 $13.10
Grace Hopper • AKJ Education $12.37 1 $12.37
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89

Materials cost

$180.37

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.71

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$219.08

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$38.66

Total project goal

$257.74

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $257.74

2 Donors

-$122.43

Donations toward project cost

-$112.54

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.89

match offer

-$125.34

Match offer toward project cost

-$106.54

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.80

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$9.97

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 $0.00

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