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Ms. Castor from Orlando FL is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Manipulating Math After Maria Mayhem

My students need math manipulatives like fraction tiles and ten frames to make concrete models for addition and subtraction.

  • $808 goal

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My Students

As a teacher in a low-income/high poverty school, my students are faced with several challenges both in and out of the classroom. Despite the many challenges they face, I try to keep things simple and provide my students with creative and meaningful learning experiences.

Facts and figures can be very daunting, my job is to make math engaging and easy to comprehend.

My goal is to help make math more enjoyable for our third, fourth and fifth graders so they are able to focus on the new concepts being taught in class.

My students are eager 21st century learners who want to make a difference in their school communities. They are loving 4th and 5th graders who just want love and support.

My Project

My students are amazing little people who want so much to learn and grow. After being devastated by Hurricane Maria, our students have come to us with open hearts and willing attitudes, however they are without the necessary things needed to feel like the awesome mathematicians they are.

These supplies will help make math more understandable to students who are not as familiar with a new language.

They are excited about learning, which in turn inspires their teachers and peers . Theses supplies will give the students a good visual representation of math concepts that can sometimes be very confusing. The ten frames will help students compose and decompose numbers as the value is quantified. It serves as a visual representation that can be manipulated to do more complex problems. The rainbow fraction tiles help foster muscle memory as the students have a tactile-kinesthetic resources that allows them to solve fractions. Each rainbow tile correlates to a different quantity which will allows for my students to recall them with ease later.

The colored pencils will help the students do multi-step problems when solving real world mathematical problems. In addition, it will be infused cross-curricularly with science, where the students will be exposed to inquiry based learning and record their new knowledge through labeling. Part of learning is through revising their knowledge in their interactive notebooks. Students will be able to color code this learning so that permanent cognitive connections are made. Lastly, the colored pencils will help our scholars delve further into "close reading". They will be able to locate vocab words, definitions, and pose examples by using specific colored pencils for each.

Ms. Castor
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Crayola Colored Pencils Bulk, 24 Packs of 12-Count • Amazon Business $35.14 15 $527.10
Magnetic Ten-Frame Set, including 5 frames (no hollowed out) and 55 colorful discs • Amazon Business $16.99 4 $67.96
Learning Resources Magnetic Rainbow Fraction Tiles • Amazon Business $10.26 5 $51.30

Materials cost

$646.36

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$686.06

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$121.07

Total project goal

$807.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$807.13

11 Donors

-$280.99

Donations toward project cost

-$250.99

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.00

match offer

-$511.85

Match offer toward project cost

-$435.07

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$76.78

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$14.29

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$0.00

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