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Ms. Schaefer from Holts Summit, MO is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Interactive Math Discovery for Kindergarteners

Help me give my students hands-on math tools, strategies and activities to increase understanding AND the empowerment to think like mathematicians.

  • $905 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Project

Math Stackers puts the power of math in kids’ hands & builds them up to be math thinkers! They are purposefully designed to maximize kids’ discovery and interaction with math through stacking, comparing, questioning and proving their own ideas and theories.

Math Stackers invites any learner to take risks and test out their own thinking about math without any negative consequences…if you stack something that ends up being incorrect, NO BIG DEAL, you just discovered something that doesn’t work… just knock it over and continue the learning!

All kids, regardless of backgrounds and current knowledge, must be met where they are and moved to a new realm of understanding and discovery. We must give them opportunities to question, wonder, and discover. For kids that struggle with verbal or written communication or expressing their ideas, Math Stackers offers an opportunity to SHOW exactly what they are thinking breaking down barriers between students and educators that exist when given a problem on a piece of paper. For kids who are advanced in their understanding of math, Math Stackers gives them opportunities to push their own thinking and connect what they already know to solve problems with which they are unfamiliar.

Take a look at some of the concepts kindergarteners can discover through hands-on investigation and fun challenges:

- Number recognition and reasoning

- Counting

- Subitizing

- Patterns

- Comparing and ordering

- Spatial Reasoning

- Ten Frames

- 1-1 Correspondence

- Measurement (the blocks have notched, inch sections)

- How to decompose numbers and equations

- Properties of Addition

- Relationship between Addition and Subtraction

- Decomposing

- Applying strategies of 10 to adding and subtracting one and two-digit values

- Part Part Whole relationships and connect to written diagrams

Ms. Schaefer North Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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Holts Summit, MO View local requests

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

18 students impacted 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Whole Class Deluxe Bundle for LOWER GRADES • Math Stackers $399.00 1 $399.00
The Math Thinker Plus+ • Math Stackers $329.00 1 $329.00

Materials cost

$728.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.92

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$768.92

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$135.69

Total project goal

$904.61

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$904.61

4 Donors

-$897.55

Donations toward project cost

-$763.82

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$133.73

match offer

-$6.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$5.10

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.90

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.06

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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