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Ms. DeGrazia from New York, NY is requesting professional development through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Professional development

It's Not About the Answer, It's About The Journey

I need a series of professional development books, Contexts for Learning Mathematics, that seeks to provide suggestions and ideas for richer math instruction that encourages problem-solving and mathematical discourse.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. DeGrazia's classroom raised $247

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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

When I look at my students, I see a rainbow. Located in a low-income community of Manhattan, our students are the definition of diverse. Culturally, we house many immigrant families ranging from African to Middle Eastern to Dominican. Personally, we house children of all kinds including those who are athletic, those who are artistic, and those who are logical. Academically it is no different.

When it comes to education, our students enter the classroom at a myriad of levels ranging from far below grade level, to approaching grade level, to on or even above grade level.

This is a difficulty for many of the teachers in our schools as we are constantly questioning how to meet each student where they are and give them the tools they each need, at their own level, to improve.

My Project

For many of us, math class was a call to action. We were presented with a problem and we raced to complete it. However, how empowering would it have been if math wasn't a race? What if you were told it wasn't about the answer as much as how you made sense of the numbers?

Math should be a subject full of thought, discourse, and collaboration.

In fact, research shows that math is learned best when conceptualized in social settings. Unfortunately, as educators, we cannot encourage this type of work without the right resources. These books will serve to provide several grade level teacher teams with lessons, performance tasks, and puzzles that can push our students towards this type of work. As students build routines around group work and problem-solving, they will come to realize that it isn't about being good at math or not. Instead, it's about making sense of situations to solve broader problems at hand.

Ms. DeGrazia PS 34 Franklin D Roosevelt Grades 3-5

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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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Nearly all 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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Mystery of the Meter: Decimals (Contexts for Learning Mathematics) • Amazon Business $31.25 1 $31.25
Field Trips and Fund-Raisers: Introducing Fractions (Contexts for Learning Mathematics) • Amazon Business $31.25 1 $31.25
Best Buys, Ratios, and Rates: Addition and Subtraction of Fractions (Contexts for Learning Mathematics) • Amazon Business $31.23 1 $31.23
Minilessons for Operations with Fractions, Decimals, and Percents: A Yearlong Resource (Contexts for Learning Mathematics) • Amazon Business $31.23 1 $31.23
Exploring Parks and Playgrounds: Multiplication and Division of Fractions (Contexts for Learning Mathematics) • Amazon Business $25.78 1 $25.78
The California Frog-Jumping Contest: Algebra (Contexts for Learning Mathematics,Grades 4-6: Investigating Fractions, Decimals, and Percents) • Amazon Business $25.78 1 $25.78

Materials cost

$176.52

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.65

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$209.17

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$36.91

Total project goal

$246.08

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $246.08

1 Donor

-$123.03

Donations toward project cost

-$104.58

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.45

match offer

-$123.05

Match offer toward project cost

-$104.59

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.46

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 $0.00

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